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Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2021 Jan 02
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
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Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +010041Reload: How to make sure type of script function hasn't changed?
Bram Moolenaar4072ba52020-12-23 13:56:35 +010042
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +010043Valgrind: test_vim9_cmd: uses uninitialized var
Bram Moolenaar4072ba52020-12-23 13:56:35 +010044
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010045Vim9 - Make everything work:
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020046- Implement "export {one, two three}".
Bram Moolenaar4072ba52020-12-23 13:56:35 +010047- Use "null" for v:null, like true and false? #7495
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020048- ISN_CHECKTYPE could use check_argtype()
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010049- Using a script variable inside a :def function doesn't work if the variable
50 is inside a block, see Test_nested_function(). Should it work?
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020051- give error for variable name:
52 let p = function('NoSuchFunc')
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +020053- If a :def function is called with a function reference, compile it to get
54 the function type.
55 def Filter(x: string, Cond: func(string): bool)
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +010056 Filter(x, (v) => v =~ '^b')
57- Make inline function work, to be used as a funcref:
58 let Ref = (arg: type): type => {
59 statement
60 return expr
61 }
62 let Ref = (arg: type) => {
63 statement
64 statement
65 }
66- implement { cmd } compiled
67- implement { cmd } at script level
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +020068- Expand `=expr` in :next, :argedit, :argadd, :argdelete, :drop
69- Expand `=expr` in :vimgrep, :vimgrepadd, :lvimgrep, :lvimgrepadd
70- Expand `=expr` in :mkspell
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +020071- Does this work already: can use func as reference:
72 def SomeFunc() ...
73 map(list, SomeFunc)
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010074- For builtin functions using tv_get_string*() use check_for_string() to be
75 more strict about the argument type.
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +010076- Implement :lockvar and :unlockvar. How about local variables? Perhaps only
77 allow this for global variables. Use :final or :const otherwise.
Bram Moolenaar4072ba52020-12-23 13:56:35 +010078- Allow function names that will be script-local to start with lower case
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +010079 letter? Or also require names with s: prefix to use upper case?
80 Also apply this function references "var ref = SomeFunc"
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020081- Support passing v:none to use the default argument value. (#6504)
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010082- Make map() give an error if the resulting type of the first argument is
83 wrong. Only works if the type is known? Is this slow (need to go over all
84 items)?
85- Run the same tests in :def and Vim9 script, like in Test_expr7_not()
86- Check many more builtin function arguments at compile time.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020087- make 0 == 'string' fail on the script level, like inside :def.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020088- Check that when using a user function name without prefix, it does not find
89 a global function. Prefixing g: is required.
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010090- Need the equivalent of get_lval() and set_var_lval() to implement assignment
91 to nested list and dict members.
92 - Assignment to dict doesn't work:
93 let ret: dict<string> = #{}
94 ret[i] = string(i)
95 - Appending to dict item doesn't work:
96 let d[i] ..= value
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +020097- Using ".." at script level doesn't convert arguments to a string.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020098- Compile replacement of :s command: s/pat/\=expr/
99- Compile redir to local variable: var_redir_start().
Bram Moolenaar4072ba52020-12-23 13:56:35 +0100100- Implement type cast at the script level.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200101- Compile builtin functions that access local variables:
102 islocked()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200103- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
104 has('asdf'), len('string')
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200105- Implement "as Name" in "import Item as Name from ..."
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200106- Implement using imported items at script level from "import * as X" in
107 eval_variable(). Should pass the ".xxx" that follows and return that.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200108- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100109- Make "++nr" work. "++g:count" doesn't work, thinks it is a range.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200110- Make closures work:
111 - Create closure in a loop. Need to make a list of them.
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100112 - nested closure only uses one context, not all (#7150)
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200113- expandcmd() with `=expr` in filename uses legacy expression.
114- eval_expr() in ex_cexpr()
115- eval_expr() call in dbg_parsearg() and debuggy_find()
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200116Improve error checking:
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100117- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +0100118Before launch:
119- Add all the error numbers in a good place in documentation.
120- In the generic eval docs, point out the Vim9 syntax where it differs.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200121Also:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200122- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
123 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100124- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100125- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
126- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100127- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
128- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
129- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100130- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
131 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100132- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that
133 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be
134 defined.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100135- implement :type
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200136- import type declaration?
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200137- Future work: See |vim9-classes|
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200138- implement enum
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100139- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
140 EVAL expr
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100141 LOADVARARG (varargs idx)
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200142- Make debugging work - at least per function. Need to recompile a function
143 to step through it line-by-line? Evaluate the stack and variables on the
144 stack?
145- Make profiling work - Add ISN_PROFILE instructions after every line?
146- List commands when 'verbose' is set or :verbose is used.
Bram Moolenaar4072ba52020-12-23 13:56:35 +0100147Once Vim9 is stable:
148- Change the help to prefer Vim9 syntax where appropriate
149- Use Vim9 for runtime files.
150 PR #7497 for autoload/ccomplete.vim
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200151Further improvements:
152- compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
153 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
154 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
155- compile get_lambda_tv() in popup_add_timeout()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200156- inline call to map() and filter()
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200157- compile "skip" argument of searchpair()
158- compile "expr" and "call" expression of a channel in channel_exe_cmd()?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100159
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200160Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200161- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable?
162 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in
163 current window.
164 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows
165 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200166- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
167 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100168- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100169- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
170 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
171 the way. (#5737)
172 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +0200173- Width is not computed correctly when minwidth and maxwidth are &columns
174 and padding and a scrollbar are used. (#6676)
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200175- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
176 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200177- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100178- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
179 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
180- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200181- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200182 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100183- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
184 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200185- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100186 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100187- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200188
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200189Text properties:
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200190- :goto does not go to the right place when text properties are present.
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200191 (#5930)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100192- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100193- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
194 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +0100195- Should we let the textprop highlight overrule other (e.g. diff) highlight if
196 the priority is above a certain value? (#7392)
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100197- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200198
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100199'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200200- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
201 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100202- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
203 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200204- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200205- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200206- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
207 isn't one?
208 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
209
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200210Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100211- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200212- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100213- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200214
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200215Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200216- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100217- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
218 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200219- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100220- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200221- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200222 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
223 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100224- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100225- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
226 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100227 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100228 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200229
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200230Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100231- Can escape a terminal popup with win_gotoid(), should be an error
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200232- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200233- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
234 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
235 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200236- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
237 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
238 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
239 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200240- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
241 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100242- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
243 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200244 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
245 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100246 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100247- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100248- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
249 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200250- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
251 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200252- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200253- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200254- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
255 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200256- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
257 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
258- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
259 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200260- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
261 is disabled.
262- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
263- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
264 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200265- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
266 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
267 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
268- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
269- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
270 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
271- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
272 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200273
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200274Error numbers available: E653
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200275
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200276Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat, #7082)
277
278Patch for Template string: #4634
279Have another look at the implementation.
280
Bram Moolenaar1c6737b2020-09-07 22:18:52 +0200281Patch to implement the vimtutor with a plugin: #6414
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200282Was originally written by Felipe Morales.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200283
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100284Patch to find Python dll using registry key. (#7540)
285
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200286Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
287
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100288Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598)
289Scroll doesn't work correctly, why?
290
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200291Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
292with 'termguicolors'. #1740
293
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200294Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660.
295
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100296Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc.
297
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200298Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co
299changes.
300
301Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE.
302This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need
303to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011
304
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200305Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab".
306Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901)
307
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200308Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
309Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
310
311Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200312Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200313(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
314Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
315- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
316 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
317 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
318- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
319 covered by the above change.
320So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
321same thing.
322Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200323
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200324Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
325autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
326 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
327 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
328 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
329 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
330 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
331The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
332
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100333Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
334mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
335
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200336Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054)
337Is OK when syntax HL is active.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200338
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200339Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count.
340Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096)
341After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should
342work.
343
344Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of
345autocommands be made faster? (#7056)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200346
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200347Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
348 replace this:
349 let left = GetLeftFunc()
350 let right = GetRightFunc()
351 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
352 by:
353 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200354Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
355
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200356Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI?
357
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100358":pedit" ignores the local working directory when 'pvp' is set (#7267)
359
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200360Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
361(#6539)
362
363When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
364register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
365(#6435)
366
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100367Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200368Causes flicker on resizing. Workaround from Ken Takata.
369How about only setting the attribute when part of the Vim window is offscreen?
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200370
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100371File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
372
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200373"make test_gui" crashed in submenu_change(). Fix and remove workaround in
374add_pixmap_args().
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200375Athena is OK.
376Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200377Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
378manager. Problem with Motif?
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200379
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200380Patch to add :argdedupe. (Nir Lichtman, #6235)
381
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200382:map output does not clear the reset of the command line.
383(#5623, also see #5962)
384
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200385Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
386character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200387
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200388undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
389
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200390After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it causes
391corruption. (#6631)
392
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100393When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
394(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
395
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200396Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
397/\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
398
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200399With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
400'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100401
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200402Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
403which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
404#6127
405
406When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
407":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
408Might be related to #6088.
409
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200410Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt".
411(#6919)
412
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200413When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
414Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
415(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
416
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100417Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
418(Paul Jolly, #5656)
419Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100420 Later more requests for what to track.
421 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
422 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
423 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100424BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100425Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100426
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200427Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
428
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200429Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
430
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200431Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
432
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200433Implement completion for "breakadd". Should expand the second argument, e.g.
434"func", and then function names after ":breakadd func". Including
435script-local functions.
Bram Moolenaar1c6737b2020-09-07 22:18:52 +0200436Also for ":profile".
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200437
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100438:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
439Dec 19)
440
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200441Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
442Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
443
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100444Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
445May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200446Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
447remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100448Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200449
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100450When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
451the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
452
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200453Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100454Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
455in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200456Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
457(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200458
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100459Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
460ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200461Is there a test for this?
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100462
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200463Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
464that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
465Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100466
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100467Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
468(#4087)
469
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100470behavior of i_CTRl-R_CTRL-R differs from documentation. (Paul Desmond Parker,
471#5771)
472
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200473":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
474goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
475unlisted. (#4478)
476
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100477Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100478
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200479":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
480find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
481
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200482Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
483
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200484Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
485Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
486
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100487Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
488
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100489Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
490
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200491The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
492support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
493
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100494"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
495
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200496Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
497Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
498
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100499Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
500
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200501When 'relativenumber' is set the line just below a diff change doesn't get
502updated. (#6138)
503
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100504Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
505
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100506Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
507
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200508Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
509(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
510
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200511When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
512default one. #4698
513
514When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
515with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
516
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100517Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200518Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100519
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200520Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200521Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200522
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200523Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200524fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
525
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200526Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200527
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200528Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
529- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
530- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100531- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200532
533Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
53413, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200535
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100536Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200537Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100538
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100539When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
540when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
541gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
542input buffer. (#5302)
543
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200544xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
545buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
546Xterm 224 supports it!
547Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
548Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
549Also see issue #609.
550We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
551
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100552:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
553(#5467)
554
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200555Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200556
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100557Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
5582007 Feb 18)
559Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
560
561Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
562Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
563
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200564Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
565
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200566Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200567Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
568Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200569
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100570Errors found with random data:
571 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100572
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200573Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
574files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
575Include part of #3242?
576
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200577When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
578it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
579
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200580Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
581Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
582Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
583
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200584Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
585t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
586
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100587Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
588Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
589
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200590'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
591
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200592"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
593(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
594
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200595Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
596
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100597Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
598
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200599Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
600
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100601When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
602in a long line. #5189
603
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200604The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
605Give a few examples. (#4288)
606
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200607Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
608work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
609
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02006107 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
611 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
612 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200613Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200614
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100615Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
616read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
617be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
618
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100619Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
620CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
621with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
622fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
623displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
624
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200625Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
626
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200627Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
628
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200629Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
630https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
631
632Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
633http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
634http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
635Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100636- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200637- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
638- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
639 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
640- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
641- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
642Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
643- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
644- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
645Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
646- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
647
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100648Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
649Mar 5)
650
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200651Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
652- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
653 line.
654- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
655 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
656- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
657 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
658
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200659Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
660on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
661
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200662Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
663in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
664buffer didn't change at all.
665
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200666Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
667(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
668
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200669Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
670'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
671(#4450)
672
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100673Session file only contains local option values for buffers that are in a
674window, not other buffers. (#7532)
675
676Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
677modified buffers
678 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
679 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
680 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
681 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
682
683When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
684buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
685Should add the buffer in hidden state.
686
687When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
688filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
689initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
690
691Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
692normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
693
694Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
695(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
696
697Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
698that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
699ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
700Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
701
702'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
703Likonen, March 19)
704
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100705When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
706But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
707similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
708
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200709C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
710(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
711
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100712Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
713added?
714
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200715Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
716negative. (see #4326)
717
718'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
719`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
720tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
721:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
722
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200723This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
724 vim: syn=nosyntax
725
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200726":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
727a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
728
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100729Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
730#2948. (related to #1512?)
731On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
732balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
73320, #2481)
734Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
735Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
736balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
7372018 Sep 14)
738Another request: #3811.
739
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200740More warnings from static analysis:
741https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200742
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100743Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
744
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200745Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
746
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200747Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
748internals of the dict structure.
749
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100750nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
751
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200752Missing tests for:
753- add_termcap_entry()
754
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200755Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
756change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
757them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
758
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100759Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
760Also run all tests with C locale?
761
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100762"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
763#3927
764
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200765Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200766Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200767
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100768When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
769case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
770For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
771
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200772Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
773(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
774expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200775
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200776Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
777 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
778 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
779
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100780Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100781punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100782
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200783ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
784
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200785Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
786drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
787
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200788Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
789is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
790
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100791When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
792scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
793using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
794
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200795Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
796#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
797(Sep 8)
798
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200799Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
800unified diff (list of lines).
801
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100802When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
803kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
804when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
805
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100806Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
807(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100808
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100809Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
810
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100811Memory leak in test_debugger
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100812Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100813Memory leak in test_terminal_fail
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200814TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100815Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200816Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
817Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200818
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200819gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200820
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200821matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
82219.
823
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100824Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100825Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100826Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
827highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200828And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
829'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100830Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
831Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100832
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100833Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
834Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
835
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200836Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
837Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
838Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
839
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200840Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
841screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
842
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200843home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
844
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200845When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
846terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
847How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
848
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200849Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
850
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100851Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
852Feedback from someone who uses this?
853
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200854ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
855
856Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
857Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
858values.
859
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100860Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200861- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
862- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
863- omit diff.exe from distribution
864- Can we make this show differences within a line?
865- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200866
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200867Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
868
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100869Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200870What is the practical use for this? Need an example.
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100871
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200872When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
873includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
874
875Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200876Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200877
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200878MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
879(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
880
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100881Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
882
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200883Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
884
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200885Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
886window for the buffer.
887
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200888Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
889when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
890
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100891Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
892mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
893
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100894Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
895- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
896- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
897- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100898- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
899
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200900Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
901characters. (#3246)
902
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200903'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
904
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100905Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
906Oct 28)
907
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200908ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
909Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
910Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
911Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
912
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100913Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
914- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
915
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200916Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
917- Test_setbufvar_options()
918- Test_exit_callback_interval()
919
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200920Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
921Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100922Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
923Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200924
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200925Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
926
927Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
92824)
929
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100930Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100931 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100932or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100933 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
934
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200935Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
936is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
937used for git temp files.
938
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100939Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
940
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200941Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
942behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
943(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
944
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200945Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
946pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
947
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200948Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
949script or function.
950
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200951When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
952E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
953does nothing otherwise?
954
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200955MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
956If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
957(wait a little while).
958CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100959
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200960Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
961MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
9622017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
963receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
964
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200965Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
966missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
967
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200968":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
969deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
970
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200971Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200972
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200973With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
974included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
975(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
976
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200977Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200978Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200979
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100980Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100981Jan 15, #2555)
982
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200983":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
984
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100985Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
986
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100987No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
988No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
989
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200990Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
991http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
992Should be supported with a flag.
993
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100994Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
995confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
996
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100997Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
998
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100999Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
1000Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
1001applying the diff, etc.
1002
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +02001003Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
1004Apr 26, #2849)
1005
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +01001006User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
1007word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001008
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +01001009Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001010
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001011With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
1012(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
1013
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001014Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
1015:drop (remote commands).
1016
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001017Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
10182018 Jun 18, #3027)
1019
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001020Implement option_save() and option_restore():
1021option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
1022 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
1023 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
1024 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
1025 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
1026 be called when the same window is the current window.
1027 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
1028 the local options won't be restored.
1029
1030option_save({list}) *option_save()*
1031 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
1032 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
1033 let s:saved_options = option_save([
1034 \ 'ignorecase',
1035 \ 'iskeyword',
1036 \ ])
1037 au <buffer> BufLeave *
1038 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
1039< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
1040 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
1041 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
1042 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001043 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
1044 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
1045 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +01001046 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001047
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001048"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
1049directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
1050Also see #1689.
1051
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001052When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +01001053highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001054
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +02001055":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
1056
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001057No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
10582017 Dec 26, #2501)
1059
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001060A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
1061
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001062Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
1063
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001064A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
1065Mention where they were defined somewhere.
1066
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001067Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
1068(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
1069
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001070ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1071
1072Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1073
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001074Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
1075Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
1076
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001077Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
1078in #846)
1079Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
1080
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001081Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
1082Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
1083
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001084When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
1085redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001086
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001087In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
1088(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
1089
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001090Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
1091neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001092
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001093Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
1094Nov 21)
1095
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001096When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocommand event isn't
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +02001097triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
1098set_color_count().
1099
1100Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
1101responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
1102
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001103When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1104CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1105Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1106always nested.
1107
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001108matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1109
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001110Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1111
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001112MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001113for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1114
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001115Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001116(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001117
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001118Test runtime files.
1119Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001120
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001121Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001122
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001123Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1124defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1125Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1126
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001127After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
112813, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001129
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001130When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1131line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1132
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001133The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1134
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001135Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
1136set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +02001137Was this fixed?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001138
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001139Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1140
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001141Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1142behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1143
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001144'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1145
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001146The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1147
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001148When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1149a command can delete it.
1150
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001151Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1152#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1153
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001154The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +01001155for another buffer. (lacygolil) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001156
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001157X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1158pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1159clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1160Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1161Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1162clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001163Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001164
1165Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1166
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001167Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1168attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +02001169that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001170
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001171Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1172(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1173
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001174Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1175buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1176Also fixes #2166?
1177
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001178Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1179stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1180
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001181Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1182possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1183
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001184When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1185case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1186
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001187Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1188existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1189Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1190
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001191Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001192
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001193MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1194Jul 4)
1195
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001196Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1197Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1198This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1199Christian cannot reproduce it.
1200
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001201Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1202wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1203Or is this not an actual problem?
1204
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001205Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1206
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001207Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1208
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001209'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1210#1736)
1211
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001212Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
12138, #1690)
1214
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001215Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1216(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1217
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001218Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1219it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1220
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001221Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1222Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1223How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1224
1225Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1226(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1227
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001228Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1229
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001230assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1231it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1232
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001233Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1234for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001235
1236Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1237(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1238Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1239later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1240Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1241mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001242Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1243mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001244maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001245
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001246Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001247plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1248be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1249
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001250Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1251 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1252 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001253
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001254json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001255What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001256
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001257Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1258
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001259import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1260(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1261
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001262Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1263Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001264Another example in #1309
1265
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001266When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1267when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1268
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001269Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1270#1330)
1271
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001272Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1273
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001274GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1275g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1276timer expires.
1277
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001278Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1279highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1280
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020012818 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001282 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1283
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001284Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1285Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1286
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001287Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1288key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1289 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1290 echo keytrans(xx)
1291 <C-Home>
1292
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001293Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1294(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1295Make a function to check for function-like type?
1296
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001297Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1298(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1299
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001300Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1301 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001302 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001303
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001304Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1305somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1306
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001307The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1308"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1309Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1310
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001311Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1312
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001313Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1314about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001315Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1316
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001317":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001318vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1319
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001320Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001321E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001322Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001323
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001324Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1325Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1326
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001327Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001328Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001329
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001330"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1331(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1332
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001333Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1334(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001335Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001336
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001337'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1338
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001339Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1340
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001341When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1342Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001343Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001344
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001345Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1346anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1347
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001348Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001349E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001350
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001351Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1352(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1353
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001354Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1355
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001356On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1357separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1358
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001359min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1360contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1361
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001362Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1363
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001364Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1365
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001366Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1367
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001368Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1369no longer support.
1370
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001371sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
13724#1038)
1373
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001374sort() does not use 'smartcase' for the skip pattern, even though 'ignorecase'
1375is used. (Filipe Brandenburger, #7322)
1376
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001377+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001378- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001379- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1380 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1381 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001382- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1383 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001384- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1385 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001386- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1387- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1388 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1389- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1390 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1391- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001392- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1393 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001394- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1395- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1396 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1397 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1398- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1399- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1400- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1401 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1402 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1403- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1404 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1405- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1406 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1407 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1408
1409Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001410- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1411 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1412 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1413 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001414- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1415 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001416- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1417 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1418- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1419 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1420- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1421 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1422 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1423 LC_CTYPE
1424- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1425 matches everywhere.
1426- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1427 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1428- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1429- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1430 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1431- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001432- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender,
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001433 2013 Dec 11)
1434- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1435 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1436- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1437- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1438 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1439- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1440- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1441- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1442- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1443 2015 Feb 7)
1444- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1445 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1446 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1447 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1448 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1449- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1450- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1451- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1452- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1453 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1454 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1455 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1456- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1457 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1458- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1459 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1460 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1461 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1462
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001463Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1464#1350)
1465
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001466Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
14673. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1468Also see #1635.
1469
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001470Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1471doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1472Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001473Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001474E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1475
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001476cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1477
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001478:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1479
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001480Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1481
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001482When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1483synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1484
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001485Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1486Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001487
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001488ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1489Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001490
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001491Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1492Jul 25, #948)
1493
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001494Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1495names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1496Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1497the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1498
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001499MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1500Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001501
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001502Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1503
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001504Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1505#1125
1506
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001507Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1508times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1509
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001510Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1511
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001512We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1513the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1514
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001515Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1516
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001517When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1518emoji_width table has only one entry.
1519
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001520It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1521Reject the value? #710.
1522
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001523When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1524Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1525
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001526Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1527No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001528
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001529Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1530(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001531
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001532Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1533
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001534Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1535https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001536Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001537
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001538Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1539but the reference remains valid.
1540
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001541Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001542interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1543Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1544interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1545result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001546
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001547Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001548work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001549
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001550Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1551
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001552Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1553
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001554Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1555Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1556
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001557When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1558Apr 17) #762
1559
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001560exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1561Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1562
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001563Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1564'iskeyword' for syntax.
1565
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001566When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1567maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001568Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001569
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001570Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1571It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1572Add configure check?
1573Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1574Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1575Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1576
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001577Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1578Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1579
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001580Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1581Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1582
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001583":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1584directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1585
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001586In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1587(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1588
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001589If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
15902016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001591
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001592Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1593(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1594
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001595When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1596restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1597Do not trigger the event?
1598
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001599Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1600Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1601https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1602
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001603Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1604With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1605
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001606Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001607
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001608Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1609
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001610Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001611Only remembers one error.
1612
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001613GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001614
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001615Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1616(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001617
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001618Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1619github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001620 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001621Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001622
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001623Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001624
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001625Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001626comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001627
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001628Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1629
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001630MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1631wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1632
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001633Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1634specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1635
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001636Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1637(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1638
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001639Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001640inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001641
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001642Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001643(Luchr, #277)
1644
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001645Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001646'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1647before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001648
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001649C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1650and also line continuation after #include.
1651I can't recommend it though.
1652
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001653Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1654(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1655
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001656To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1657library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1658
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001659When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1660is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1661
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001662Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
166330)
1664
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001665MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1666(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1667
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001668The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
166924): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001670
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001671":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1672effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1673
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001674":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
16759)
1676
1677The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1678wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1679
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001680Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001681Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001682
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001683When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1684the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1685
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001686Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001687slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1688inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1689
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001690ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
16912014 Sep 11)
1692
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001693Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1694(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1695
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001696When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1697'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1698
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001699Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1700Work in progress.
1701
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001702Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1703when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1704
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001705Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1706Is this right?
1707
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001708Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1709(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1710Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1711
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001712Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1713Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001714
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001715Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1716Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1717
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001718Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1719
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001720Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1721
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001722Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1723OK to not block marks?
1724
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001725Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1726
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001727When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1728(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1729
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001730Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001731
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001732Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1733(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1734
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001735When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1736any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1737
1738Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001739
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001740Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001741
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001742Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1743(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1744
1745Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1746
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001747Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1748Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1749was already defined.
1750(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1751
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001752Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1753
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001754Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001755Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001756Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001757Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001758
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001759Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1760(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1761
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001762Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1763(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1764
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001765Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1766
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001767When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1768these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1769window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1770
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001771Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1772should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1773history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1774Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1775
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001776"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1777Jun 8)
1778
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001779Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1780insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1781
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001782No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1783
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001784Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1785(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1786Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1787arguments.
1788
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001789Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1790
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001791Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1792right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001793its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001794
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001795Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1796
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001797This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1798 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1799This neither: (ZyX)
1800 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1801
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001802'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1803Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1804from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001805
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001806Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
18072014 Jun 8)
1808
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001809Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1810https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001811Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001812Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1813package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001814Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1815Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1816User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001817- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1818 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1819 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001820- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1821- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1822 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1823 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1824 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1825 on vim.org.
1826- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1827 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1828- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1829- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1830- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1831- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1832Implementation:
1833- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1834 plugin separate.
1835- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1836 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1837 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1838- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1839 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1840- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1841 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1842 installing.
1843Out of scope:
1844- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1845- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1846 useful).
1847
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001848When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1849menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1850
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001851Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1852(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1853
1854":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1855various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001856
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001857Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001858(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1859
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001860VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1861instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1862
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001863Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001864Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001865Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001866
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001867Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001868command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001869
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001870Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1871
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001872Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1873highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001874
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001875The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1876For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1877
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001878Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001879possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001880
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001881Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001882
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001883Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1884
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010018857 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1886 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1887 "lucida_console:h8").
1888Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1889
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001890:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1891
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001892Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1893
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001894Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1895
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001896When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1897(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1898
1899Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001900Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001901
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001902GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1903(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1904
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001905Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1906registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1907
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001908Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1909
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001910The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1911(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1912Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1913
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001914The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1915- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1916- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1917
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001918Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1919Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1920reliably?
1921
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001922Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1923(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1924
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001925Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1926(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001927Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1928(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1929try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1930try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001931
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001932Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
19332013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001934
1935Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1936
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001937Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
19385)
1939
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001940Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1941carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1942
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001943Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1944highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1945
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001946Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001947
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001948Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200194928) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001950
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001951Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1952
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001953Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1954
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001955- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1956 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1957Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001958
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001959Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001960
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001961In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1962process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1963a reboot.
1964
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001965patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001966Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1967Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001968
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001969Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1970not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001971
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001972Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1973Or use expand('<sid>')?
1974
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001975Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1976
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001977Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1978
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001979b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
19807)
1981
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001982Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1983compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1984
1985Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1986Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1987vim.bindeval().
1988
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001989Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
19902012 Aug 4)
1991
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001992Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1993(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1994
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001995Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1996But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1997
1998Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1999Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
2000Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002001
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002002Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
2003loading all files.
2004
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002005'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002006
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02002007Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02002008of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
2009
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002010The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
2011Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
2012But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002013
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002014When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
2015is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
2016
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002017URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002018- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002019- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
2020 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
2021
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02002022Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
2023(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
2024Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
2025
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002026Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02002027New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002028
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002029When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
2030for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
2031Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002032
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02002033Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
2034
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01002035Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
2036
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002037Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
2038Apr 18)
2039
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002040Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
2041And one for gui_x11.txt.
2042
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002043":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
2044finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
2045Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
2046
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002047Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
2048
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01002049Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
2050
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002051Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
2052they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
2053
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002054Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
2055
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002056Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
2057Nov 20)
2058
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002059Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002060Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002061
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002062`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002063(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
2064
2065Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
2066
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01002067BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
2068Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
2069
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002070Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2071Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
2072
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002073Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
2074
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002075On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
20762012 Jun 19)
2077
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002078'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
2079'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
2080Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002081Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02002082
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002083With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
2084(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
2085need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2086
2087Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2088only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
208921, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2090
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002091Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2092New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2093
2094Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2095Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2096
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002097Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2098Jan 19)
2099
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002100Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2101discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2102meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002103
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002104"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002105Oct 26)
2106
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002107Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2108
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002109With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2110register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002111
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002112Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2113
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002114When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2115(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2116
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002117When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2118then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2119from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2120
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002121Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2122":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
212315)
2124
2125Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2126
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002127BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2128cleared. See test64.
2129
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002130On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
213164 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2132right type.
2133
2134string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2135(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2136
2137When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2138(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002139When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2140following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2141(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002142
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002143When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2144doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2145
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002146Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2147
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002148When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2149indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2150the help file.
2151
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002152After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2153Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2154
2155Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2156
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002157"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002158
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002159Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2160
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002161Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002162
2163Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
21642010 Dec 18)
2165
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002166With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2167number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2168Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2169
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002170Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2171Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2172
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021738 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2174Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2175
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002176Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2177one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2178the match scrolls into view.
2179
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021807 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2181Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2182Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2183
21849 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2185 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2186Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2187
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002188Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2189Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2190
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002191In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2192or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2193sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2194
2195GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2196doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2197
2198GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2199
2200Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2201Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2202
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002203Wish for NetBeans commands:
2204 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2205
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002206Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2207
22087.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2209there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2210do?
2211
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002212Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
221322)
2214
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002215New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2216- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002217- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002218 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2219
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002220"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
22212011 Feb 27)
2222
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002223Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2224^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2225
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002226When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2227exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
22289) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2229
2230g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2231the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2232
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002233Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2234crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2235
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002236Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2237number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2238
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002239Regexp engine performance:
2240- Profiling:
2241 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2242 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2243 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2244 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2245 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2246 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2247- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2248- Performance tests:
2249 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2250 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2251 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2252 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2253 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2254 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2255 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2256 'hlsearch'.
2257 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2258 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2259 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2260 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2261
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002262Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2263Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2264
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002265'beval' option should be global-local.
2266
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002267Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002268
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002269setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002270
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002271With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
22722010 Oct 24)
2273
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002274Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2275
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002276When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2277Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2278
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002279":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2280
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002281'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2282
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002283C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2284checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2285Issue 46.
2286
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002287Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2288
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002289Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2290gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2291
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002292":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2293accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2294
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002295Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2296setwinvar().
2297
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002298Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002299
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002300When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2301instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2302
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002303Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2304Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2305Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002306
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002307Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2308back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2309
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002310Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002311Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2312
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002313CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2314the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01002315FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Philippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002316
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002317Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2318Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2319
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002320Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2321Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2322
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002323Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2324
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002325Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2326non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002327
2328iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2329Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2330or replace with a character and continue?
2331
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002332Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2333Requires configure check for localtime().
2334Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2335
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002336Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2337
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002338Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2339Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2340path.
2341
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002342Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002343Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002344
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002345'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2346
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002347":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2348like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2349
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002350Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2351https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002352
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002353Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
23542010 Nov 5)
2355
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002356Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002357Jan 7)
2358
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002359Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2360
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002361With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2362entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2363Feb 12)
2364
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002365Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2366characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2367
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002368Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2369
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002370Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2371 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2372
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002373Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2374
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002375When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2376Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2377
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002378When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2379not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2380string value.
2381
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002382For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002383line argument -noregister.
2384
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002385When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2386missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2387
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002388When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2389doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002390
2391Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2392(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2393Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2394There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2395Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2396
2397":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2398highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2399to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2400
2401Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2402Probably needs a bit of work.
2403
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002404List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002405Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2406
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002407Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2408
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002409Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2410
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002411Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2412Sep 1)
2413
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002414Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2415
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002416Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2417on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2418
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002419Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
24202009 Jul 18)
2421
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002422Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2423window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2424Needs more work.
2425
2426Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2427
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002428When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2429few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2430
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002431'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002432(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2433
2434Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2435J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2436
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002437When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2438for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2439
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002440Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2441
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002442":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2443because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2444ex_docmd.c.
2445
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002446Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002447Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2448
2449string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2450for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2451
2452Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2453
2454'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
245520)
2456
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002457Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
24582009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2459
2460Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2461
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002462When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2463indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2464(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2465
2466Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2467are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2468Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2469Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2470that doesn't have a window.
2471
2472When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2473doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2474
2475getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2476displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2477
2478":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2479
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002480There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2481was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2482perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2483
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002484Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2485
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002486Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2487command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2488
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002489Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2490does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2491
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002492opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2493height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002494very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002495
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002496Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002497(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2498
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002499Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2500char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2501
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002502Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2503Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2504
2505This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2506
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002507Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2508messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2509es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
25102009 Jan 26)
2511
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002512When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002513in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2514Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2515
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002516Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2517a modeline.
2518
2519Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2520Sergey Khorev)
2521
2522Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2523part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +020025246 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
2525 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
2526 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002527
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002528After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2529correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2530
2531Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2532(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2533
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002534shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002535'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2536Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2537unix-like shell?
2538
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002539Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2540register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2541(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2542
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002543Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2544Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2545
2546Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2547make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2548
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002549When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2550still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2551
2552"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2553(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2554
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002555MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2556doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2557probably causes this.
2558
2559'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020025602009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002561
2562Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2563 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2564 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2565(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2566
2567Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2568":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2569option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2570is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002571
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002572":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2573first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002574Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002575
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002576Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2577laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2578Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002579
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002580Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2581anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2582
2583On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2584doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2585Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2586Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2587
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002588When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2589'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2590fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2591the buffer to be unmodified.
2592Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2593another look at it.
2594
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002595c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2596(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2597
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002598You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2599error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2600Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2601at the other match for 0xBF.
2602
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002603When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2604argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2605
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002606Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2607backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2608
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002609When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2610line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2611
2612Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2613position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2614
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002615After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2616(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002617command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002618
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002619":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2620Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2621
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002622When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2623either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2624put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2625
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002626Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2627Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2628Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2629Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2630(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2631
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002632Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2633
2634ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002635
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002636Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2637(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2638escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2639an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002640This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2641July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002642Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2643work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2644
2645When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
264631)
2647
2648Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2649work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2650Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002651
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002652Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002653multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002654(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2655
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002656Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
26572008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002658Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002659
2660Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2661Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2662'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2663
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002664Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2665Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2666
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002667Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2668Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2669
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020026708 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2671 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2672 several).
2673 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2674 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2675 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2676Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2677
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002678The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002679 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002680 0x2217, star
2681 0x2500, bar
2682 0x26ab, circle
2683
2684Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2685line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2686
2687GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2688Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2689
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002690Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2691try the Cocoa version.
2692
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002693Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2694changed or the window is resized.
2695
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002696GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2697the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2698
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002699Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2700Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002701
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002702Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
27031) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2704
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002705C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2706with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2707Try to reproduce at work.
2708
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002709Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2710Is there a way to list all the files first?
2711
2712When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2713result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
271416)
2715
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002716Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2717(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2718
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002719Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2720Await response to question to make the register writable.
2721
2722Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
27231)
2724
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002725In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2726each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2727
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002728":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2729Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2730
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002731Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2732
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002733Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2734Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2735
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002736Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2737Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2738Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002739
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002740When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2741and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2742
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002743Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2744 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2745
2746New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2747
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002748":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2749a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2750
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002751Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2752other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2753
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002754The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2755appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2756matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2757
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002758When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2759character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2760'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2761(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2762
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002763Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2764Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002765
2766More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2767
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002768Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2769http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2770
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002771Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2772back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2773Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002774
2775Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2776No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2777
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002778Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2779terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002780
2781Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2782
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002783Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2784but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2785that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002786
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002787Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2788Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2789
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002790Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2791popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2792size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2793This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2794
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002795When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2796it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2797
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002798Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2799then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2800files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002801Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2802indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2803":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002804in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2805quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002806Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002807
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002808When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2809parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2810neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2811particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2812Jun 3)
2813However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2814the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002815
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002816A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2817Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2818
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002819Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2820Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2821
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002822Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2823switch list is noticed:
2824 switch (i)
2825 {
2826 case 1:
2827 foobar:
2828 }
2829
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002830Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2831
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002832Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2833with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2834go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2835moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2836
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002837Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002838GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002839Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2840argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2841(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2842
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002843Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2844(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2845
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002846Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
28472007 Feb 8)
2848
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002849Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2850set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002851
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002852Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2853
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002854Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2855Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2856New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2857patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2858
2859Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2860Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2861
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002862Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002863label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2864
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002865Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2866with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2867Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002868
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002869Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2870
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002871Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2872Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2873only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2874
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002875Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2876Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002877Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002878properly?
2879
2880Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
28812007 Jun 21)
2882
2883When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2884Jun 18)
2885
2886If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2887
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002888In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2889the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2890
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002891C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2892
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002893":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2894
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002895When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002896error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002897
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002898GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002899use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2900
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002901Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2902if_ruby.c.
2903
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002904":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2905
2906The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2907it in keep_msg?
2908
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002909Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002910error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002911name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2912
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002913Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2914longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002915
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002916Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2917Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2918Also for ":w" without a file name.
2919The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002920
2921"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2922Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2923
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002924VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2925directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2926(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2927
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002928VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2929
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002930input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2931name?
2932
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002933Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2934
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002935When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2936(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002937Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002938will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2939
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002940gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2941This also fails with --remote.
2942
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002943When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
29442008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2945all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2946
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002947aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2948
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002949When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2950(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2951
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002952Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2953the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2954
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002955GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2956
2957Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2958Jun 5)
2959
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002960Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
29612008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2962Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2963
2964In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2965but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2966Jul 22)
2967
2968There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2969
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002970Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2971
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002972Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2973moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2974that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2975
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002976The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2977
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002978When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002979cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2980the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2981
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002982These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2983 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2984 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2985 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2986
2987Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2988partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2989
2990In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2991buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2992reload it then?
2993
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002994For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2995
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002996Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2997only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2998
2999Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
3000tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
3001doesn't contain other directories.
3002
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01003003Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
3004Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
3005
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01003006Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
3007 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
3008 set background=dark
3009This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
3010color is, not reset it.
3011
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003012Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
3013start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
3014show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
3015middle?
3016
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003017Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
3018
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003019When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
3020current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
3021the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
3022
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003023When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
3024Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
3025
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003026Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
3027Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
3028
3029Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
3030
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003031A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
3032Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
3033
3034Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
3035Dara, 2006 June 21)
3036
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003037Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
3038number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
3039
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003040After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
3041the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
3042
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003043Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003044
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003045Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3046Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3047
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003048Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010030492008 Sep 29)
3050
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003051In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3052check the result of has("patch13").
3053
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003054Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3055restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3056
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003057Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3058and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3059
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003060Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3061put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3062
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003063Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3064resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3065
3066In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3067can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3068
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003069GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3070maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3071doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003072Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3073visible.
3074
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003075When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3076differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003077
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003078The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3079be only one.
3080
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003081Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003082"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3083name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3084Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003085
3086Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3087(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3088
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003089Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3090as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3091
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003092Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
309323)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003094
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003095":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3096tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3097Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003098
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003099When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3100text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3101latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3102
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003103Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3104no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3105
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003106In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3107VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
31082007 Oct 16)
3109
3110TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3111Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3112
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003113Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003114
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003115When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3116typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3117Sep 3, 11)
3118
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003119":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3120this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3121
3122When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3123Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3124restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3125
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003126Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
31272010 Jun 30)
3128
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003129Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3130'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3131(Kartik Agaram)
3132
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003133
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003134Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003135- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3136 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3137- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3138 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3139 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3140- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3141 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3142 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003143- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3144- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003145
3146
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003147More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003148- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3149 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003150- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003151- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3152 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003153- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3154- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3155- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3156 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3157 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003158- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003159- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3160 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3161- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3162 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3163- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3164 21)
3165- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3166 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3167- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3168 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003169- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3170 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003171- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3172 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3173 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3174 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3175 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003176- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003177
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003178Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000031799 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3180 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3181 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3182 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3183 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3184 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3185 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3186 (Alan Schmitt)
3187 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003188 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3189 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000031909 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003191 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031928 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031937 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3194 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3195 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031968 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003197 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020031987 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003199 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3200- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003201 for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003202- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3203- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3204 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3205 been given values.
3206 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032077 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3208 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3209- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3210 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3211 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
32128 Add functions:
3213 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3214 Update 2004 Sep 10
3215 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3216 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003217 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003218 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3219 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3220 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3221 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3222 (2003 May 13)
3223 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3224 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003225 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3226 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003227 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3228 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3229 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032307 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3231 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032327 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3233 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000032348 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3235 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032367 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
32378 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3238 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
32397 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3240 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032417 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3242- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3243 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3244 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003245- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3246 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3247- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3248
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003249Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3250- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3251 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3252
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02003253
3254Spell checking:
3255- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap
3256 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away
3257 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line
3258 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col".
3259- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
3260- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single
3261 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
3262 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
3263 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be
3264 downloaded.
3265- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new
3266 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
3267- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers
3268 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
3269- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character,
3270 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
3271- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
3272 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use
3273 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function.
3274
3275
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003276Quickfix/Location List:
3277- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3278 #2999)
3279- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3280 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3281 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3282 the quickfix buffer?
3283- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3284 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3285- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3286 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3287- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3288 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3289 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3290- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3291 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3292- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3293- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3294 2007 Jan 1)
3295- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3296 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3297- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3298 errors. How do we get the rest?
32998 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3300 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3301 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3302 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
33037 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02003304 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003305
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003306Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003307- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3308 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033098 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3310 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3311 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3312 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3313 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3314 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033158 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3316 make Vim exit.
33177 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3318 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3319 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
33208 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3321 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3322 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
33236 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3324 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3325 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
33268 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3327 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3328 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3329 names in one buffer???
3330 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3331 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3332 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
33337 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3334 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3335 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003336 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3337 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033387 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3339 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
33407 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033417 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3342 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3343 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3344 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
33457 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
33467 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
33477 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3348 to the match with the tag? Option?
33497 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
33507 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3351 (Sayre).
33527 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3353 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033547 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3355 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3356 match. Nvi can do it too.
33577 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3358 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3359 line 1\ line 2\\
3360 line 2\ line 3\\
3361 . line4/
33626 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3363 the way the shell is started?
33646 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3365 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3366
3367
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003368GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033699 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033708 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3371 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3372 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000033738 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3374 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3375 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033769 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3377 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3378 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3379 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003380- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3381 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3382 blocked for now.
3383
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003384
3385Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003386- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3387 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033888 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3389 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3390 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033916 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3392 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000033938 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3394 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3395 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033967 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3397 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3398 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033997 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3400 2004 May 9)
34018 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3402 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3403 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3404 MS-Windows 98?
3405 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3406 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3407 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3408 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034098 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3410 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3411 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3412 doesn't work properly.
34138 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3414 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3415 appears in the right position. (Webb)
34169 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3417 button doesn't give popup menu.
3418 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3419 selection.
3420 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3421 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3422 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
34238 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3424 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3425 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3426 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
34278 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3428 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3429 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034307 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3431 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003432 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034337 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3434 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034356 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
34368 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3437 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3438 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
34398 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3440 know which keyboard is being used?
34417 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3442 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3443 area (Koloseike).
34448 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3445 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3446 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3447 the font name).
3448
3449
3450Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034516 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3452 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3453 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3454 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3455 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034569 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3457 required and it's missing?
34588 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3459 wrong.
34609 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3461 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000034629 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003463 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3464 flag.
34658 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3466 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3467 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
34688 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
34696 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3470 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3471 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3472 the tooltips work though...
34737 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3474 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
34758 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3476 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3477 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3478
3479
3480Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010034819 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3482 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034839 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3484 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3485 through files.
34867 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3487 read long file names. (Schroeder)
34884 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3489 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3490 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3491 problem during a refresh.
34925 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3493 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3494 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3495 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3496 colors as it should.
3497 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3498 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3499
3500
3501Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003502- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035037 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3504 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035058 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3506 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3507 (Phillipps)
3508
3509
3510GUI:
35119 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3512 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
35139 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003514 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003515 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
35169 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3517 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035188 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3519 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3520 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
35218 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3522 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3523 of where it is processing the output.
3524 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
35258 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3526 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010035278 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000035288 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3529 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3530 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020035318 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035328 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3533 browse().
35348 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3535 use that code? Or use console dialog.
35368 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3537 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000035387 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3539 - regexp on/off
3540 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3541 when all buffers/directory is used:
3542 - filter for file name
3543 when directory is used:
3544 - subdirectory on/off
3545 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035468 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3547 to avoid problems.
35488 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3549 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3550 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
35518 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3552 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3553 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
35548 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3555 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035568 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
35577 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3558 visible.
35597 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3560 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
35617 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3562 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
35638 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3564 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
35658 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3566 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3567 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3568 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3569- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
35704 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3571 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3572 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3573
3574
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003575Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035768 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3577 a good fallback, thus use:
3578 $HOME
3579 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3580 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3581 $USERPROFILE
3582 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3583 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3584 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3585 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035868 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3587 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
35888 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3589 Should work like in the GUI version.
35908 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3591 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
35928 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3593 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
35948 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3595 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3596 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035978 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3598 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3599 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3600
3601
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003602Win32 console:
36039 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3604 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3605 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3606 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3607 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3608 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3609 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3610 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3611 and the file is not saved.
3612 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3613 long name.
36148 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3615 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
36167 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3617 besides the console.
36188 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
36199 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3620 <C-S-i>?
36219 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3622 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
36238 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3624 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003625
3626
3627Amiga:
36288 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3629 sequences.
36309 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3631 backslashes in result.
36328 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3633 all options, using white space separation.
3634
3635
3636Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003637- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036387 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3639 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3640 (Jack)
3641 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036428 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3643 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036448 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
36458 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
36469 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3647 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036489 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003649
3650
3651"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003652- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3653 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000036549 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3655 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000036569 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003657 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3658 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036598 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3660 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3661 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003662 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036637 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3664 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
36658 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3666 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3667 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036687 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3669 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003670- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3671 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036728 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3673 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3674 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3675 using the horizontal scrollbar.
36767 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3677 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3678 invocations belong together.
36798 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3680 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
36818 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3682 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3683 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003684 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036858 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3686 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3687 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036888 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3689 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036907 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3691 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3692 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3693 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036947 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3695 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3696 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
36977 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3698 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3699 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
37007 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3701 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037027 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3703 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037049 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3705 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3706 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3707 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3708 script can be called.
37098 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3710 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3711 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037128 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3713 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000037148 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003715 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3716 configurable?
37178 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037188 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3719 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020037208 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3721 is a multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037228 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3723 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037249 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3725 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3726 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037277 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037288 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3729 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3730 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000037318 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3732 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003733 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3734 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037358 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3736 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
37379 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3738 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3739 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003740 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037417 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3742 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037437 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3744 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3745 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3746 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037478 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003748 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3749 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3750 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3751 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003752 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3753 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003754 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003755 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003756 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3757 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3758 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3759 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3760 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037618 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3762 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
37638 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3764 in lines that don't extend into the block?
37658 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3766 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3767 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
37688 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3769 'linebreak'.
37708 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3771 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3772 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037739 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3774 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3775 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3776 'magic' in history. (Margo)
37779 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3778 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037799 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
37809 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3781 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3782 cause another redraw, etc.
37838 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3784 must escape special characters in the pattern.
37858 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3786 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3787 ":w!!" for that.
3788 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3789 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003790 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037917 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3792 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3793 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3794 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3795 clipboard)
37967 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3797 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3798 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000037996 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3800 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3801 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038028 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3803 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
38048 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3805 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3806 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
38078 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3808 (e.g., ":w").
38098 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3810 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038118 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3812 script in do_cmdline().
38138 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3814 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3815 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3816 changes.
38178 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3818 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
38198 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3820 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038218 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3822 to skip catch_signals()?
38239 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3824 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3825 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3826 text?
38278 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3828 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
38298 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3830 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
38319 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3832 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3833 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3834 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3835 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
38367 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3837 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3838 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3839 in the list?
38408 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3841 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3842 instead of on button down.
38438 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038448 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3845 character is typed.
38468 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3847 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
38488 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3849 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
38508 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3851 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3852 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3853 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3854 cygwin bash.
38557 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3856 Remember flags for backreferences.
38577 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3858 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
38597 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3860 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
38618 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3862 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
38637 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3864 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038657 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3866 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3867 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
38687 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3869 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
38708 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3871 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003872 that the user knows the files have to be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003873
3874
3875I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
38769 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3877 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3878 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003879
3880
3881Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003882- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3883 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3884 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003885- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3886 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3887 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3888 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3889 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3890 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003891 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003892- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3893 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003894 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003895 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3896 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3897 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003898- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3899 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3900 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3901 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3902 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3903- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3904 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3905 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3906- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3907 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003908- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003909- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3910 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3911 character gets the highlighting.
3912- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3913 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3914- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3915 (Jennings)
3916- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003917- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003918- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003919 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003920- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3921 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3922 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3923- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3924 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3925 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3926 (Benzinger).
3927- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3928 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3929 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3930- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3931 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3932- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3933 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3934- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3935 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3936 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3937 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3938 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3939 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3940- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3941 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3942 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003943- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3944 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3945 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003946- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3947 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3948 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3949- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3950 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3951- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3952 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003953- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3954 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3955- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3956 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3957 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3958 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3959 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3960- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3961 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3962 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3963- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3964 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3965 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003966- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3967 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003968- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3969 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3970 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3971 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3972 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3973- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3974 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3975
3976--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3977 *extensions-improvements*
3978
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003979Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3980- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3981 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3982 calling a function.
3983 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3984 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003985- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3986 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003987 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003988- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3989 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3990 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3991 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3992 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3993 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003994 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003995- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3996 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3997 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003998- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3999 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000040008 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
4001 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
4002 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
4003 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00004004- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
4005 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004006
4007
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004008Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040098 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
4010 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000040118 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
4012 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000040138 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
4014 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040158 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040169 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
4017 - change to cursor position and curswant
4018 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
4019 - how it works for folded lines
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004020 - how it works with multibyte characters
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040218 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
4022 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
4023 text.
40248 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
40257 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
4026 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
40277 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
4028 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004029 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004030- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
4031
4032
4033Help:
4034- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
4035 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
4036- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
4037 to the other matches.
4038- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004039- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
4040 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02004041 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004042 default contents.
4043- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4044 height for the help window (and other windows).
4045- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4046- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4047- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4048
4049
4050User Friendlier:
40518 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4052 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4053 Briscoe)
40548 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
40558 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4056 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4057 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
40588 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4059 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4060- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4061 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004062- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
40639 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4064 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4065 item?).
4066 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040678 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000040687 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4069 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4070 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000040718 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4072 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4073 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4074 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004075
4076
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004077Tab pages:
40789 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040797 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4080 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040818 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000040828 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040837 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040847 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004085 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040868 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4087 tab pages.
40887 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4089
4090
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004091Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004092- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004093 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004094- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4095 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4096 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4097- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4098 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004099- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4100 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4101 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004102- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4103 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4104 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004105- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004106 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4107 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000041088 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4109 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
41108 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4111 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
41128 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4113 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004114 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004115 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4116 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4117 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4118 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004119- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4120 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004121- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004122- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4123 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004124- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004125 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004126- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004127 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004128- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4129 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004130- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4131 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4132- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004133 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004134 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4135 in the affix file separately.
4136 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004137 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004138 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4139 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4140 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4141- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4142 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4143 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4144 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4145 Alternative:
4146 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4147 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4148 affix which is required.
4149- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004150 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004151- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4152 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4153 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004154- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4155 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004156- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4157 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4158- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041598 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4160 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4161 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4162 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004163- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4164 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4165 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4166 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041678 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4168 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041698 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
41708 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4171 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041727 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
41738 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4174 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4175 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4176 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004177
4178
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004179Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020041809 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4181 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020041828 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004183 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004184
4185Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004186 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4187 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041888 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4189 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041908 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4191 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041928 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4193 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4194 user aware of this?
41958 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4196 commands skip over a closed fold.
41978 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41988 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041997 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004200- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4201 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4202 missing line goes unnoticed.
4203 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004204- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4205 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4206 smoother?
4207- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4208 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004209- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4210 file can contain:
4211 args version.c main.c
4212 edit version.c
4213 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004214- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004215- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4216 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004217- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4218 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004219- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4220 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004221- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004222
4223Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004224- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4225 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4226 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4227 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042289 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4229 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4230 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4231 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042329 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4233 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4234 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042358 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4236 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4237 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4238 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4239 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4240 item.
42418 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004242 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4243 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042448 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4245 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042468 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4247 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4248 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042497 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4250 so that the user can fix the problem.
42518 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4252 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042539 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020042548 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters.
42558 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042568 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042577 Searching and composing characters:
4258 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004259 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4260 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042618 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
42628 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020042638 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004264 characters.
42658 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
42668 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4267 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
42687 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4269 'display' option to specify this.
42707 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4271 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4272- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4273 fontselector somehow.
4274- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4275 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4276- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4277 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4278- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4279 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4280 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4281 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4282 if a font exists?
4283- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004284 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004285- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4286 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004287- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004288 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4289 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004290 at a multibyte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004291- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4292 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004293 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004294- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004295 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4296 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4297 But it's very complicated...
4298
4299
4300Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000043017 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004302- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4303- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4304 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004305- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4306 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004307- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4308- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4309 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004310- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4311 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004312- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4313 units as for the margins.
4314- Support right-to-left text?
43158 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4316 color.
4317
4318
4319Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043208 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4321 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
43228 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4323 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
43248 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4325 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000043267 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4327 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043288 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4329 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4330 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043317 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4332 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4333 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043348 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
43359 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4336 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043377 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4338 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000043397 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4340 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043418 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4342 change this for each release.
43438 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4344 pattern, but not in the body.
43458 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4346 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4347 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043488 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010043498 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004350 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4351 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043528 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4353 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
43548 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4355 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004356 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043578 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4358 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4359 used.
43608 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4361 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
43628 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4363 re-insert the [] if possible.
43648 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4365 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000043668 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4367 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4368 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4369 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4370 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043718 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4372 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
43738 Support for deleting syntax items:
4374 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4375 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4376 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
43778 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4378 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4379 a '<'. (Fleiner)
43807 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4381 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4382 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
43837 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4384 detected.
43858 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004386 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043878 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4388 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043898 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43908 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43917 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4392 ":mkvimrc".
43938 Improve c.vim:
4394 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4395 "c_strict_ansi".
4396 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43978 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4398 current line while in Insert mode.
43998 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4400 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
44018 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4402 display position.
44038 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4404 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4405 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
44068 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4407 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4408 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000044097 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4410 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4411 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4412 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4413 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044147 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4415 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4416 E.g. for this html:
4417 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044187 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
44197 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4420 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044218 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
44228 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044237 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4424 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4425 completion?
44268 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4427 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
44287 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4429 select one of the sets.
44308 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4431 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4432 2, etc.
44338 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4434 highlighting (for "." command).
44358 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4436 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
44378 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
44387 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4439 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
44406 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4441 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4442- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4443 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4444- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004445- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4446 (for comment blocks).
4447- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4448 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4449 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4450 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4451 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4452 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4453 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4454 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4455 (Campbell)
4456 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4457 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
44587 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4459 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
44607 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4461 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4462 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
44637 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4464 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4465 messages. And external commands?
44668 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4467 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
44687 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4469 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4470
4471
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004472Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044738 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4474 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004475 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000044767 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4477 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4478 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004479- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020044808 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4481 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4482 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4483 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4484 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4485 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044867 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4487 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044888 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044898 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4490 can be the plugin name.
4491 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4492 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044937 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4494 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4495 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4496 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4497 autocommand.
4498 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4499 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4500 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4501 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045027 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4503 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045046 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4505 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045068 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004507 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4508 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004509 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4510 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4511 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004512 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4513 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4514 3 2002
4515 Only add this when also implemented for
4516 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4517 be used.
4518 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004519 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4520 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4521 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4522 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4523 File.Open..." argument.
4524 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4525 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4526 with properties instead.
4527 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4528 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4529 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004530 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004531 crypt() encrypt string
4532 decrypt() decrypt string
4533 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4534 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004535 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004536 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004537 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004538 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004539 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004540 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4541 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004542 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4543 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004544 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004545 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4546 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4547 to allow the library to execute a command or
4548 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045497 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4550 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
45518 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4552 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045538 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4554 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045558 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045566 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045578 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4558 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045598 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4560 option or environment variable.
45618 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045628 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004563 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045647 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4565 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045668 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4567 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
45688 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
45698 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4570 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4571 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4572 charwise({expr}).
45737 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4574 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4575 buffer for this?
4576 result = scratch(string, command)
4577 result = apply(string, command)
4578 result = execute(string, command)
4579 "command" would use <> notation.
4580 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45817 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004582
4583
4584Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045856 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4586 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4587 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4588 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4589 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4590 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4591 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004592
4593
4594Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045957 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4596 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045977 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4598 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4599 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4600 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046018 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4602 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4603 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4604 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004605 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046068 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
46079 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
46088 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
46097 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4610 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
46118 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4612 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4613 when starting up in a color terminal.
46148 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4615 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046168 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4617 function be improved?
46188 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4619 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4620 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4621 this be improved?
46228 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4623 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000046247 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4625 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046267 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4627 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
46287 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4629 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046307 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4631 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4632 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4633 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4634 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4635 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4636 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046378 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4638 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4639 using strcmp() too often?
46407 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4641 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4642 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4643 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4644 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4645 the two blocks to the memfile block.
46467 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4647 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4648 with an argument that can be messed with.
4649 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4650 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
46517 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4652- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
46538 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4654 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4655- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4656 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4657- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4658- Do profiling on:
4659 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004660 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4661 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4662 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4663 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4664 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4665 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004666 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046677 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4668 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4669 changed).
4670 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4671 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4672- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4673- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4674 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4675- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4676 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4677 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004678- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4679- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4680 cursor is right of the screen.
46818 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4682 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4683
4684
4685Code size:
46868 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4687- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4688 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46898 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46908 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4691 it.
46927 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4693 left out.
46948 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4695 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046968 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004697
4698
4699Messages:
47008 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4701 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
47028 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4703 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
47048 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4705 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004706- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4707 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4708- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
47099 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4710 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4711 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4712 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4713 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047148 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4715 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
47168 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4717 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4718 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4719 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4720 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4721 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004722- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004723 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047248 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4725 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4726 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4727 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4728 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4729 error messages, printing text, etc.
47308 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4731 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4732 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4733
4734
4735Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004736- screen_line():
4737 - insert/delete character stuff.
4738 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4739- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4740 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4741- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4742 waiting for a character.
47438 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4744 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4745 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004746
4747Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020047488 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047496 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4750- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4751 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4752 windows.
47537 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4754 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4755 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4756- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4757 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4758 (Goldfarb)
4759- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4760 bound windows.
4761- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4762 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004763- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004764- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4765 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4766 of lines but not with a single line).
4767
4768
4769Autoconf:
47708 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
47718 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4772 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4773- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4774 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4775- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4776- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4777- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4778
4779
4780Perl interface:
47818 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047827 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47837 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47846 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4785
4786
4787Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047888 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4789 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047906 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4791 :libload internal-name libname
4792 :libunload internal-name
4793 :liblist
4794 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4795 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4796 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47976 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4798
4799
4800Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000048019 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4802 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4803 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4804 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4805 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000048068 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4807 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4808 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004809 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004810 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000048117 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4812 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4813 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048148 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
48158 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4816 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048177 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4818 window for each tag.
48197 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
48207 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4821 bottom" search message.
48227 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4823 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4824 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004825- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4826- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004827- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4828 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4829 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048307 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4831 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4832 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4833 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
48347 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4835 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4836 :tagargs clear
4837 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4838 matching).
48397 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4840 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4841 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4842 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
48437 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4844 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
48457 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4846 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4847 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004848
4849
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004850Win32 GUI:
48518 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4852 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048537 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4854 (Mike McCollister)
48558 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4856 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4857 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4858 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4859 common part of the path.
48608 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
48618 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4862 gettext and menus work.
48638 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4864 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004865 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004866 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
48678 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4868 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
48698 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4870 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
48717 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4872 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
48737 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
48747 <Esc> should close a dialog.
48757 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4876 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4877 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4878 prompts.
48797 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4880 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4881 the file added into an already running Vim.
48827 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4883 functions to find the window title.
4884
4885
4886GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048877 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48888 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48896 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48908 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4891 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48929 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48937 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48948 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4895 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48968 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4897 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4898 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48998 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4900 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
49018 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4902 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4903 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4904 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049057 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
49068 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4907 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000049087 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4909 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4910 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049118 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
49128 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004913 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049148 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
49158 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
49168 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4917 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4918 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
49197 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4920 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4921 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
49227 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4923 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
49247 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4925 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4926 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4927 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049287 Should support multi-column menus.
4929- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4930 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4931- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
49328 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
49336 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4934 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
49357 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
49367 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4937 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4938 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
49397 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
49408 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4941 name can be chosen free.
49427 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4943 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
49446 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4945 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4946 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4947 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4948 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4949 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4950 things.
49517 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4952 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049537 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004954 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004955- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4956 where it was started from?
49577 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4958
4959
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004960Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020049619 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4962 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004963- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049648 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4965 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4966 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4967 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
49688 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4969 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000049707 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4971 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4972 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4973 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049747 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049758 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4976 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049778 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4978 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4979 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049807 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4981 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4982 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049838 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4984 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4985 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049868 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4987 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049888 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049896 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4990 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049917 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049927 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004993 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4994 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4995 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049965 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4997 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4998 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49997 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
5000 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
5001 file.
50028 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
5003 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
5004 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005005- Add events to autocommands:
5006 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02005007 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00005008 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
5009 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005010 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005011 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005012 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
5013 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
5014 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
5015 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005016 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005017 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
5018 the char.
5019 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
5020 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
5021 file from CVS).
5022 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
5023 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
5024 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
5025 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
5026 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
5027 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005028 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
5029 changes.
5030 WinResized - After a window has been resized
5031 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005032- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005033 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005034 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005035 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
5036 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
5037 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
5038 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
5039 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
5040
5041
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005042Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005043- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5044 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005045- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5046 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5047 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5048 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5049 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005050- Ideas from others:
5051 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5052 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5053 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5054 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5055 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5056 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5057 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5058 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5059 Uses Perl for C++.
5060 Uses ctags to find the info:
5061 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5062 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5063 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5064 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5065 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5066 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005067 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005068 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5069- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5070
5071
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005072Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005073- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050747 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5075 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050767 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5077 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5078 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050798 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5080 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50819 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5082 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5083 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050848 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5085 - ignore/match case
5086 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050878 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5088 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5089 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5090 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5091 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5092 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050938 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050947 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5095 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050968 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5097 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5098 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5099 Should work for C++ and Java.
5100 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
51017 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
51027 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5103 instead of words.
51048 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
51058 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5106 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
51078 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5108 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005109- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5110 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005111- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5112 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5113 wildcards in the file name)?
5114- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5115- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5116- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5117 be in another file).
5118- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5119- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5120- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5121 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5122- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5123- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5124- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005125- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5126
5127
5128Command line editing:
51297 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5130 line.
51318 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5132 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5133 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5134- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5135 lines wraps to start of line).
5136- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5137 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5138 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5139 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5140 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5141 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5142 cmdwin does now already.
5143 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5144 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5145 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5146 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5147 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5148 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5149 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5150 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5151 Problems:
5152 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5153 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5154 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5155 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5156 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5157 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5158 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5159 character in first column?
5160 - Implementation ideas:
5161 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5162 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5163 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5164 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5165 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5166 Mode.
5167
5168
5169Command line completion:
51708 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
51718 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5172 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51738 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5174 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051758 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5176 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051777 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5178 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005179- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5180- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5181 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051828 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5183 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51847 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5185 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5186- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5187 identifiers (Webb).
51888 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5189 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51907 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5191 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5192- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5193 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5194- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5195 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5196 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005197
5198
5199Command line history:
5200- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5201 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5202 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005203 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005204- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5205 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5206
5207
5208Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000052099 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5210 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5211 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052128 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5213 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5214 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5215 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5216 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052178 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5218 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5219 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052207 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5221 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005222- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052237 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5224 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5225- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5226 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5227 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5228 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5229 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5230 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5231- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5232 Normal mode.
5233- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5234 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5235 are used.
5236- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5237- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5238- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5239
5240
5241'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052429 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5243 char * veryLongName =
5244 "very long string"
5245 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052468 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052478 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5248 long_type foo =
5249 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052508 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5251 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005252 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052538 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5254 func(
5255 new String[] {
5256 "asdf",
5257 "asdf"
5258 }
5259 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052608 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5261 (Chow Loong Jin)
5262 namespace {
5263 int
5264 func(int arg) {
5265 }
5266 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052676 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5268 func( arg1
5269 , arg2
5270 , arg3
5271 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000052727 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005273 func(
5274 int x) // indent like "(4"
5275 {
5276 if (a
5277 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052789 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5279 if (a)
5280 {
5281 if (b)
5282 {
5283 // {
5284 }
5285 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005286 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5287 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5288 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005289- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005290 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52917 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5292- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5293 line).
5294- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5295- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5296 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005297- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5298 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5299- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5300 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5301- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5302- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5303 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
53048 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5305 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5306 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5307- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5308- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5309 lines start with "\item".
5310- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5311 /* here is a comment that
5312 is just autoindented, and
5313 nothing else */
5314- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
53157 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5316 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5317 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005318 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005319
5320
5321Java:
53228 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5323 Odendahl?
53248 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5325 "[i" commands and friends.
5326- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5327 (Jason)
5328- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5329 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5330
5331
5332'comments':
53338 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5334 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5335 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5336 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005337 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5338 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053397 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5340 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
53417 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
53426 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5343 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5344 regexp is used.
53458 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5346 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5347
5348
5349Virtual edit:
53508 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053517 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5352
5353
5354Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053558 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053568 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053578 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005358 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020053598 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005360 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005361 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5362 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020053638 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053648 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5365 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053668 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5367 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5368 the end of the line or before a ".".
53697 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5370 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
53717 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5372 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053736 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53745 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5375 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5376 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5377 cursor is on.
5378
5379
5380Select mode:
53818 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5382 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53837 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005384 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053857 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5386 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5387 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5388 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5389 normal_cmd().
5390 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5391 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5392
5393
5394Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053958 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5396 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005397- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5398 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5399 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005400- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5401 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5402 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054038 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005404 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005405 where needed.
54067 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5407 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
54087 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5409 of each selected line.
54108 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
54118 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5412 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5413 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
54148 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5415 Ben Godfrey)
54167 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5417 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
54187 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5419 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054207 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005421 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005422 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
54238 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5424 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
54257 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5426 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5427 option!
54287 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5429 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5430 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5431 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5432 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5433 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5434 without changing the column.
54356 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054367 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5437 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054386 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5439 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
54406 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054416 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005442 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005443 or other special character.
54446 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5445
5446
5447More advanced repeating commands:
5448- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005449- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005450- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005451 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5452 "y." will repeat last yank.
5453 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5454 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5455 and/or pick an older command.
5456- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5457
5458
5459Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054608 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5461 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5462 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
54638 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
54647 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5465 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054668 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5467 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
54688 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000054697 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054708 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5471 entering search strings.
54728 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5473 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5474 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054758 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5476 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054777 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054787 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5479 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054806 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5481 abbreviations are to be used.
5482- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5483 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5484 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005485- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5486 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5487 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5488 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5489 Or implicit:
5490 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005491- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5492 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5493 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005494- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5495 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5496- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5497 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54986 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5499 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5500 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5501 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005502- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5503 non-replace Insert mode?
5504- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005505- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5506- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5507 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5508- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005509 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005510- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5511 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5512- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5513- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5514 ":freekeys".
5515- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5516
5517
5518Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005519- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5520 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5521- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5522 folds when going to another line.
5523 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5524- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5525 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005526- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5527 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5528 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005529- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5530 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5531 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5532 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020055339 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5534 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005535
5536
5537Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055389 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000055398 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005540 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005541 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005542 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005543 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055449 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5545 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010055468 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5547 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000055488 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5549 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5550 Perl does it this way:
5551 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5552 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5553 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5554 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055558 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5556 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5557 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000055587 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5559 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000055608 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5561 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055627 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005563 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5564 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5565 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055667 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005567 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055687 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5569 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055708 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5571 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
55728 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5573 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055747 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005575 example.
55768 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5577 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5578- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5579 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5580 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5581 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055828 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5583 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5584 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55857 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5586 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055877 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5588 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055898 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5590 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055918 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5592 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055938 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5594 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5595 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5596 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005597- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5598 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005599- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5600 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5601- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5602 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5603 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5604 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056058 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5606 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005607- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5608 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056098 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5610 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5611 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005612- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5613 i ignore case
5614 I use case
5615 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5616 v use Vi regexp syntax
5617 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5618 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5619 Perl uses these too:
5620 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5621 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5622 o compile only once (Perl only)
5623 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5624 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5625 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5626 following command.
5627 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5628- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5629 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5630 for search string)?
56317 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5632 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5633- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5634 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5635- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5636 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5637- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5638- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005639 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005640 a for the next file in the argument list
5641 f for file in the buffer list
5642 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005643 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5644 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005645 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5646 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5647- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056487 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005649 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056507 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5651 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5652 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5653 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
56546 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5655 effects.
56567 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5657 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5658 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000056597 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005660 Also ":dselect".
5661
5662
5663Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056649 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5665 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5666 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056679 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5668 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020056698 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5670 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056718 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5672 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5673 timestamp?
5674 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5675 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005676- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5677 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005678- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5679 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5680 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56818 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5682 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5683 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5684 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56858 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5686 only remember the lines that really changed.
56877 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5688 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5689 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5690 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005691- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5692 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5693- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5694 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5695- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5696 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5697 [-99].
5698- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5699- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005700- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5701 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5702
5703
5704Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057057 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5706 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5707 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5708 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020057098 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005710 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
57118 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5712 inode too.
57137 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005714 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5715 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057167 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5717 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5718- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5719 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5720- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5721 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
57227 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5723 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
57247 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5725 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
57268 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057277 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5728 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057298 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5730 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5731 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005732
5733
5734Swap (.swp) files:
57358 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5736 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5737 there are short file name problems.
57388 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5739 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
57408 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
57418 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005742 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005743 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5744 file the same as the actual file?
5745 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057467 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5747 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
57487 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005749 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005750 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5751 enough room.
57527 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5753 or /var/preserve.
5754- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5755 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5756- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005757 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005758- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5759 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5760 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5761 cached list of which line is where.
5762
5763
5764Viminfo:
57657 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5766 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5767 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000057688 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5769 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5770 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057718 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5772 name. (Schild)
57738 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57748 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057758 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057768 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5777 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5778 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5779 this?
57807 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57817 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5782 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57836 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5784 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5785 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5786- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5787 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5788
5789
5790Modelines:
57918 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5792 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5793 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005794- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5795 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5796 'shiftwidth'.
5797- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5798 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005799- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5800 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5801 modeline setting.
5802- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5803 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5804- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5805 .cpp files.
5806- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5807 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02005808- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005809 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5810
5811
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005812Sessions:
58138 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5814 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
58157 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5816 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058178 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5818 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058198 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5820 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5821 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000058227 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5823 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000058247 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005825
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005826
5827Options:
58287 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5829 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058308 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5831 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5832 also be supported.
58338 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5834 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5835 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
58367 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005837
5838
5839External commands:
58408 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5841 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
58424 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5843 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5844 -f).
58454 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
58464 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5847 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
58484 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5849
5850
5851Multiple Windows:
58527 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
58538 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5854 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
58557 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5856 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5857 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000058587 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5859 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000058607 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5861 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058626 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5863 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005864 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005865 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
58667 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5867 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5868 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5869 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5870- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5871 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5872 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5873 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5874
5875
5876Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058778 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058788 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5879 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058808 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058818 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5882 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58838 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5884 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5885 the mark was set.
58867 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5887 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5888 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5889 ":browse marks"?
58906 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058917 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5892 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58937 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5894 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58957 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5896 command).
58977 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5898 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5899 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5900 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
59015 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5902 mappings.
59036 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5904 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5905 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5906
5907
5908Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020059097 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005910 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005911- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5912 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000059138 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059147 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5915 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5916
5917
5918Writing files:
5919- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5920 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5921 shortname conversion.
59228 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
59238 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5924 file.
59258 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5926 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5927 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059286 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5929 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
59306 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5931 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
59326 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5933 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059348 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005935 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
59367 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5937 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010059387 When editing a file, check that it has been changed outside of Vim more
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005939 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5940 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5941 waiting for a character to be typed).
59428 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5943 line of the window, like "[time]".
5944 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5945 Automatic and/or with a command.
5946
5947
5948Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000059498 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5950 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059518 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005952 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5953- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5954- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
59558 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5956 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005957- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005958 :s///N substitutes N times.
5959- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5960 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5961 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
59627 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5963 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5964 last line column 5.
59655 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5966 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5967 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5968 (Stanislav Sitar)
5969
5970
5971Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059728 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59737 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59748 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5975 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5976 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005977- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5978- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5979 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5980- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5981- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5982
5983
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005984Argument list:
59856 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5986 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5987 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59886 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5989
5990
5991Registers:
59928 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059938 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5994 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5995 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005996- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5997 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5998- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5999 leader when line wraps?
6000- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
6001 line in the range.
6002- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
6003 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
60048 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
6005 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00006006
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006007
6008Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060098 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000060108 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060117 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
60127 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
6013
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006014Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000060157 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
6016 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
6017 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
6018 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
6019 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
6020 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
6021 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00006022 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000060237 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
6024 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000060257 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
6026 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060278 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
6028 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060297 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
6030 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
6031 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00006032- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00006033 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010060347 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
6035 window as a buffer-tab selection.
60368 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060377 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
6038 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
60398 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
6040 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060416 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060428 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6043 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6044 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6045 in this Vim.
60468 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006047 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060488 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6049 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6050 have it apply to the following command.
60518 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6052 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6053 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6054 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060557 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6056 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060577 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6058 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6059 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6060 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060616 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
60628 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
60639 Support ACLs on more systems.
60647 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6065 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060667 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6067 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6068 (truncated to fit in the space).
60697 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60708 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60718 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6072 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060737 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006074 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60757 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6076 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060777 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060787 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60797 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060808 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60818 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6082 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6083 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6084 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60858 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060868 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060878 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6088 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6089 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6090 does something like this. (Shah)
60917 Use growarray for replace stack.
60927 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6093 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60943 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060957 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6096 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060977 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6098 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006099- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6100- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6101- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6102- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
61037 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6104 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6105- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6106 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006107- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006108- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6109 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6110- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6111 call "play newbeep.au").
6112- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6113 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6114 (Bhatt).
6115- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6116 blockwise registers).
6117- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6118 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6119- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6120 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6121 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6122 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006123- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061247 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6125 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6126- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6127 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6128 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6129 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6130 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000061318 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6132 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061338 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6134 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6135 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6136 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6137 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6138- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02006139- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061407 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6141 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6142- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6143 not in column 1.
61446 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6145 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
61467 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6147- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006148- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006149 :redir #> bufname
6150 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006151- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6152 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006153- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6154 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6155 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
61566 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6157 console? (Klaus Hast)
6158- Add :delcr command:
6159 *:delcr*
6160 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6161 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6162 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6163 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6164 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006165 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006166- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6167- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6168 characters from 'isprint'.
6169- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6170- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6171 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6172- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6173 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6174 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6175- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6176- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6177 Nvi).
6178- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6179 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61807 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6181- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6182 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61836 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6184- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6185 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6186 macro).
6187- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006188- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6189 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6190- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61918 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006192- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6193- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6194- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6195 if it is not the first or last window.
6196- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6197 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61987 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6199 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6200 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6201- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6202- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006203 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006204 many percent down the windows).
6205- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6206 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6207 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006208 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006209- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6210 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6211- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6212 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6213- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6214- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6215- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6216 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062178 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6218 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6219 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6220 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6221 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006222- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6223 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6224- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006225 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6226- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006227 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6228 (Webb).
6229- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006230 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006231- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6232 hex codes like 0xff).
6233- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6234 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6235 the last TYPED command.
6236- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6237- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6238- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6239 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006240- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062418 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6242 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6243 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006244- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006245 trailing '.'.
6246- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6247 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6248 find_file_in_path().
6249- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6250 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6251- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6252- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6253 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6254- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006255 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006256- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6257 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6258 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006259- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6260- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6261- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6262 to the minimal size.
6263- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6264- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6265- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6266- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6267- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006268- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6269 entered)?
6270- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6271 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006272- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006273- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6274- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6275- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6276- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6277- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6278 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006279- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062808 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6281 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6282 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6283 or in octal.
62847 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6285 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006286- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006287 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6288- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6289- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6290 insert line command).
6291- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6292- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6293- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6294- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6295- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6296 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006297- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006298 yet.
6299- Implement 'redraw' option.
6300- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6301 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063027 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6303 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006304 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6305 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063068 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6307 do it.
6308- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6309- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6310 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6311- Add text justification option.
6312- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6313- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6314 off".
6315- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6316- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6317- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006318 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006319- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006320- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006321- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6322 commands.
6323- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6324- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6325- :table command (Webb)
6326- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006327- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6328- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6329- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6330- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6331- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6332 (Demirel).
6333- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6334- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6335 for use in macro's and the like.
6336- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006337 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006338- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006339 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006340- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006341 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006342 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6343- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6344 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006345- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006346 mkopttab to make option table?
6347- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6348 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6349- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6350 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006351- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006352 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6353- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6354 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006355- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000063568 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6357 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6358 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6359 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6360 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063618 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6362 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6363 (Netherton)
63646 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6365 space after "(", for example.
63665 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6367 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6368 (Servatius Brandt)
6369
6370
6371From Elvis:
6372- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6373- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006374- Search patterns:
6375 \@ match word under cursor.
6376 but do:
6377 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6378 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63798 ":window" command:
6380 :win + next window (up)
6381 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6382 :win - previous window (down)
6383 :win -- idem, wrapping
6384 :win nr to window number "nr"
6385 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63867 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6387 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6388
6389
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006390From xvi:
6391- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6392- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6393
6394
6395From vile:
6396- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6397- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6398 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6399
6400
6401Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006402- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6403 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006404 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006405 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6406 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006407- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6408 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6409- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6410 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6411 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6412 current layout mirrored.
6413- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6414- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6415 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6416- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6417- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6418 font in each top-level window.
6419- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6420- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6421- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6422- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6423 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006424- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6425 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6426- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6427 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
64284 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6429 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6430 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6431 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006432 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006433 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6434 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6435- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6436 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6437 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6438
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006439vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006440vim: set fo+=n :