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Bram Moolenaar6aa57292021-08-14 21:25:52 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2021 Aug 14
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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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 -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010041Vim9 - Make everything work:
Bram Moolenaar4d8f4762021-06-27 15:18:56 +020042- use CheckLegacyAndVim9Success(lines) in many more places
Bram Moolenaar6aa57292021-08-14 21:25:52 +020043- Check TODO items in vim9compile.c and vim9execute.c
Bram Moolenaar11e3c5b2021-04-21 18:09:37 +020044- For builtin functions using tv_get_string*() use check_for_string() to be
45 more strict about the argument type (not a bool).
46 done: balloon_()
47- Check many more builtin function arguments at compile time.
48 map() could check that the return type of the function argument matches
49 the type of the list or dict member. (#8092)
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +020050 Same for other functions, such as searchpair().
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020051- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
52 Test that return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
53- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that
54 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be
55 defined.
Bram Moolenaar4d8f4762021-06-27 15:18:56 +020056- Unexpected error message when using "var x: any | x.key = 9", because "x" is
57 given the type number. Can we use VAR_ANY?
Bram Moolenaar6aa57292021-08-14 21:25:52 +020058- Check performance with callgrind and kcachegrind.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010059
60Once Vim9 is stable:
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +020061- Add the "vim9script" feature, can use has('vim9script')
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010062- Change the help to prefer Vim9 syntax where appropriate
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010063- Add all the error numbers in a good place in documentation.
64- In the generic eval docs, point out the Vim9 syntax where it differs.
Bram Moolenaar9faec4e2021-02-27 16:38:07 +010065- Use Vim9 for runtime files.
66 PR #7497 for autoload/ccomplete.vim
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010067
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020068Further Vim9 improvements, possibly after launch:
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010069- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020070- Compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010071 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
72 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
73 Give an error if compilation fails. (#7625)
Bram Moolenaar6aa57292021-08-14 21:25:52 +020074 Alternatively: Detect a compiled function call and skip the expression
75 evaluation.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010076 Use the location where the option was set for deciding whether it's to be
77 evaluated in Vim9 script context.
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +020078- implement :type, "import type"
79- implement enum, "import enum".
80- implement class and interface: See |vim9-classes|
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010081- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
82 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +020083- Inline call to map() and filter(), better type checking.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010084- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
85 EVAL expr
86 LOADVARARG (varargs idx)
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020087- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
88 has(featureName), len(someString)
89- Implement as part of an expression: ++expr, --expr, expr++, expr--.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010090
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010091
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020092Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +020093- Preview popup not properly updated when it overlaps with completion menu.
94 (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2021 May 22
95- In some cases prop_remove() does not work correctly. (#8261)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +020096- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable?
97 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in
98 current window.
99 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows
100 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200101- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
102 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100103- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200104- Make it possible to scroll horizontally when 'wrap' is off. Does this
105 require an ascii scrollbar, like with the vertical one?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100106- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
107 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
108 the way. (#5737)
109 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +0200110- Width is not computed correctly when minwidth and maxwidth are &columns
111 and padding and a scrollbar are used. (#6676)
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +0100112- Should popup_getoptions() also return the mask? #7774
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200113- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
114 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200115- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100116- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
117 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
118- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200119- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200120 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100121- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
122 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200123- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100124 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100125- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200126
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200127Text properties:
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200128- property is overruled by cursorline. (#8225).
129 Add better control over priority? Make list of all highlighting, specify
130 where property fits in.
131 Or Should we let the textprop highlight overrule other (e.g. diff) highlight
132 if the priority is above a certain value? (#7392)
Bram Moolenaare0e39172021-01-25 21:14:57 +0100133- Popup attached to text property stays visible when text is no longer
134 visible. (#7736)
135- Popup attached to text property stays visible when text is deleted with
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100136 "cc". (#7737) "C" works OK. "dd" also files in a buffer with a single
137 line.
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100138- Auto-indenting may cause highlighting to shift. (#7719)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100139- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100140- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
141 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100142- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200143
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100144'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200145- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
146 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
147- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200148- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200149- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
150 isn't one?
151 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
152
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200153Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100154- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200155- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100156- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200157
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200158Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200159- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100160- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
161 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200162- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100163- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200164- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200165 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
166 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100167- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100168- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
169 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100170 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100171 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200172
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200173Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100174- Can escape a terminal popup with win_gotoid(), should be an error
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200175- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200176- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
177 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
178 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200179- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
180 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
181 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
182 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200183- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
184 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100185- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
186 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200187 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
188 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100189 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100190- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100191- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
192 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200193- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
194 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200195- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200196- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
197 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200198- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
199 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
200- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
201 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200202- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
203 is disabled.
204- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
205- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
206 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200207- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
208 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
209 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
210- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
211- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
212 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
213- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
214 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200215
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100216Include patch #6290: recognize shell directory change.
217
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200218When using 'cryptmethod' xchaha20 the undo file is not encrypted.
219Need to handle extra bytes.
220
221Test_communicate_ipv6(): is flaky on many systems
222Fails in line 64 of Ch_communicate, no exception is thrown.
223
224Rename getdigraphlist -> digraph_getlist() etc.
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200225
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100226Valgrind reports memory leaks in test_options.
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200227Valgrind reports overlapping memcpy in
228 test_conceal.3
229 test_edit.1
230 test_functions.4
231 test_ins_complete.3
232 test_method
233 test_normal
234 test_popupwin.35 et al.
235 test_search_stat
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200236Memory leak in test_debugger
237Memory leak in test_paste, using XtOpenDisplay several times
238OLD:
239TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
240Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
241Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
242Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100243
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200244":set &shellpipe" and ":set &shellredir" should use the logic from
245initialization to figure out the default value from 'shell'. Add a test for
246this.
247
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200248MS-Windows: did path modifier :p:8 stop working? #8600
249
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100250test_arglist func Test_all_not_allowed_from_cmdwin() hangs on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200251
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200252Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat, #7082)
253
Bram Moolenaar90df4b92021-07-07 20:26:08 +0200254Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
255work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
256Also see #8487 for an example.
257
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200258Patch for Template string: #4634
259Have another look at the implementation.
260
Bram Moolenaar1c6737b2020-09-07 22:18:52 +0200261Patch to implement the vimtutor with a plugin: #6414
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200262Was originally written by Felipe Morales.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200263
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200264Request to use "." for the cursor column in search pattern \%<.c and \%<.v.
265(#8179)
266
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +0100267Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
Bram Moolenaare0e39172021-01-25 21:14:57 +0100268(#4087) Did patch 8.2.2379 help?
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100269Also, z= in German on a long word can take a very long time, but CTRL-C to
270interrupt does not work. Where to add ui_breakcheck()?
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +0100271
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200272Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
273
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200274Searching for \%'> does not find anything when using line Visual selection.
275Probably because it's using MAXCOL. #8238
276
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200277Make "g>" and "g<" in Visual mode move the text right or left.
278Also for a block selection. #8558
279
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200280Add optional argument to virtcol() that specifies "start", "cursor" or "end"
281to tell which value from getvvcol() should be used. (#7964)
282Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
283inconsistent with the documentation.
284
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100285Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598)
286Scroll doesn't work correctly, why?
287
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200288glob() and globfile() do not always honor 'wildignorecase'. #8350
289globpath() does not use 'wildignorecase' at all?
290
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200291Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
292with 'termguicolors'. #1740
293
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200294Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660. Asked for a PR.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200295
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100296Patch to make fillchars global-local. (#5206)
297
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100298Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc.
299
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200300Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co
301changes.
302
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200303When using ":bwipe!" also get rid of references to be buffer, e.g. in the
304jumplist and alternate file.
305
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200306Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE.
307This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need
308to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011
309
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200310Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab".
311Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901)
312
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200313Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
314Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
315
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100316Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
317/\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
318
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100319MS-Windows: when writing undo file the infostreams are copied in
320mch_copy_file_attribute(), that seems unnecessary. (#7925)
321Add a flag to only copy attributes?
322
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200323Make the jumplist behave like a tag stack. (#7738) Should there be a more
324time bound navigation, like with undo?
325
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100326Changing a capturing group to non-capturing changes the result: #7607
327 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
328 aaa
329 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\%(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
330 aaa bbb
331Should also work without any group:
332 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '.\{-1,}\>\|.*')
333 aaa bbb (should be aaa)
334
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200335Should add a match/str/list/pos method that also returns the test and position
336of submatches. #8355
337
Bram Moolenaar4d8f4762021-06-27 15:18:56 +0200338Syntax highlight for a region does not work with a "nextgroup" if the start
339match is empty. #8449
340
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200341Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200342Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200343(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
344Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
345- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
346 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
347 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
348- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
349 covered by the above change.
350So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
351same thing.
352Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200353
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200354Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
355autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
356 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
357 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
358 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
359 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
360 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
361The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
362
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100363Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
364mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar4d8f4762021-06-27 15:18:56 +0200365#8360, #7863, #7363
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100366
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200367Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054)
368Is OK when syntax HL is active.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200369
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200370Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count.
371Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096)
372After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should
373work.
374
375Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of
376autocommands be made faster? (#7056)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200377
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200378Append in Visual block mode inserts the wrong character.
379Test_visual_block_mode() already has the proper check, which is commented out.
380(#8288)
381
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200382Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
383 replace this:
384 let left = GetLeftFunc()
385 let right = GetRightFunc()
386 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
387 by:
388 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200389Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
390
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200391Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI?
392
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100393":pedit" ignores the local working directory when 'pvp' is set (#7267)
394
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200395Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
396(#6539)
397
398When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
399register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
400(#6435)
401
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100402File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
403
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200404"make test_gui" crashed in submenu_change(). Fix and remove workaround in
405add_pixmap_args().
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200406Athena is OK.
407Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200408Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
409manager. Problem with Motif?
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200410
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200411Patch to add :argdedupe. (Nir Lichtman, #6235)
412
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100413When editing a file with ":edit" the output of :swapname is relative, while
414editing it with "vim file" it is absolute. (#355)
415Which one should it be?
416
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200417:map output does not clear the reset of the command line.
418(#5623, also see #5962)
419
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200420Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
421character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200422
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200423undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
424
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200425After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it causes
426corruption. (#6631)
427
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100428When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
429(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
430
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200431With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
432'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100433
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200434Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
435which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
436#6127
437
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200438Add a cterm attribute for "dimmed" or "faint" text. (#8269)
439
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200440When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
441":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
442Might be related to #6088.
443
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200444Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt".
445(#6919)
446
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200447When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
448Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
449(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
450
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100451Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
452(Paul Jolly, #5656)
453Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100454 Later more requests for what to track.
455 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
456 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
457 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100458BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100459Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100460
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200461Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
462
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200463Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
464
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200465Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
466
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200467Implement completion for "breakadd". Should expand the second argument, e.g.
468"func", and then function names after ":breakadd func". Including
469script-local functions.
Bram Moolenaar1c6737b2020-09-07 22:18:52 +0200470Also for ":profile".
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200471
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100472:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
473Dec 19)
474
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200475Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
476Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
477
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100478Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
479May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200480Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
481remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100482Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200483
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100484When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
485the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
486
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200487Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100488Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
489in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200490Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
491(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200492
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100493Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
494ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200495Is there a test for this?
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100496
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200497Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
498that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
499Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100500
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200501":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
502goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
503unlisted. (#4478)
504
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100505Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100506
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200507":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
508find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
509
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200510Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
511
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100512Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
513
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100514Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
515
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200516The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
517support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
518
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100519"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
520
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200521Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
522Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
523
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100524Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
525
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200526When a help file is opened that doesn't have "ft=help" in the modeline then
527the FileType is first set to "text" before it is set to "help". (#8099)
528
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200529Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
530(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
531
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200532When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
533default one. #4698
534
535When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
536with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
537
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100538Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200539Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100540
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200541Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200542fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
543
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200544Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200545
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200546Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
547- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
548- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100549- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200550
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100551Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200552Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100553
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100554When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
555when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
556gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
557input buffer. (#5302)
558
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100559:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
560(#5467)
561
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200562Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200563
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100564Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
5652007 Feb 18)
566Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
567
568Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
569Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
570
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200571Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
572
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200573Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200574Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
575Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200576
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200577Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
578files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
579Include part of #3242?
580
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200581Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
582Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
583Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
584
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200585Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
586t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
587
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100588Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
589Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
590
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200591'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
592
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100593Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
594
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200595Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
596
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100597When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
598in a long line. #5189
599
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200600The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
601Give a few examples. (#4288)
602
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200603Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200604work, results in "E479: No match". (#4610)
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200605
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02006067 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
607 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
608 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200609Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200610
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100611Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
612read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
613be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
614
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100615Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
616CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
617with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
618fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
619displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
620
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200621Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
622
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200623Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
624
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200625Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
626https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
627
628Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
629http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
630http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
631Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100632- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200633- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
634- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
635 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
636- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
637- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
638Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
639- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
640- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
641Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
642- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
643
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100644Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
645Mar 5)
646
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200647Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
648- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
649 line.
650- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
651 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
652- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
653 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
654
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200655Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
656on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
657
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200658Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
659in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
660buffer didn't change at all.
661
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200662Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
663'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
664(#4450)
665
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100666Session file only contains local option values for buffers that are in a
667window, not other buffers. (#7532)
668
669Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
670modified buffers
671 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
672 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
673 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
674 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
675
676When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
677buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
678Should add the buffer in hidden state.
679
680When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
681filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
682initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
683
684Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
685normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
686
687Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
688(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
689
690Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
691that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
692ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
693Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
694
695'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
696Likonen, March 19)
697
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100698When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
699But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
700similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
701
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200702C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
703(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
704
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100705Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
706added?
707
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200708Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
709negative. (see #4326)
710
711'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
712`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
713tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
714:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
715
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200716This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
717 vim: syn=nosyntax
718
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100719Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
720#2948. (related to #1512?)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100721Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
722Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
723balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
7242018 Sep 14)
725Another request: #3811.
726
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200727More warnings from static analysis:
728https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200729
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100730Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
731
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200732Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
733
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200734Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
735internals of the dict structure.
736
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100737nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
738
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200739Missing tests for:
740- add_termcap_entry()
741
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200742Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
743change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
744them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
745
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200746Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200747Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200748
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100749When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
750case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
751For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
752
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200753Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
754(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
755expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200756
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200757Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
758 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
759 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
760
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100761Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100762punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100763
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200764Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
765drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
766
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200767Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
768is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
769
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100770When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
771scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
772using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
773
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200774Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
775#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
776(Sep 8)
777
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200778Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
779unified diff (list of lines).
780
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100781When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
782kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
783when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
784
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100785Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
786(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100787
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100788Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
789
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200790matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
79119.
792
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100793Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
794highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200795And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
796'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100797
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100798Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
799Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
800
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200801Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
802Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
803Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
804
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200805home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
806
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200807When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
808terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
809How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
810
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100811Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
812Feedback from someone who uses this?
813
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200814Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
815Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
816values.
817
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100818Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200819- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
820- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
821- omit diff.exe from distribution
822- Can we make this show differences within a line?
823- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200824
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200825Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
826
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100827Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200828What is the practical use for this? Need an example.
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100829
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200830When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
831includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
832
833Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200834Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200835
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100836Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
837
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200838Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
839window for the buffer.
840
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100841Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
842mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
843
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100844Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
845- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
846- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100847- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
848
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100849Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
850Oct 28)
851
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100852Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
853- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
854
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200855Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
856- Test_setbufvar_options()
857- Test_exit_callback_interval()
858
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200859Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
860Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100861Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
862Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200863
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200864Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
865
866Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
86724)
868
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100869Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100870 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100871or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100872 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
873
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200874Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
875is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
876used for git temp files.
877
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100878Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
879
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200880Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
881behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
882(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
883
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200884Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
885pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
886
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200887Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
888script or function.
889
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200890When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
891E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
892does nothing otherwise?
893
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200894MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
895If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
896(wait a little while).
897CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100898
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200899Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
900MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
9012017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
902receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
903
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200904Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
905missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
906
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200907":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
908deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
909
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200910With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
911included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
912(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
913
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200914Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200915Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200916
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100917Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100918Jan 15, #2555)
919
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200920":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
921
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100922Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
923
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100924No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
925No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
926
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200927Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
928http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
929Should be supported with a flag.
930
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100931Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
932
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100933Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
934Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
935applying the diff, etc.
936
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200937Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
938Apr 26, #2849)
939
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100940User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
941word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100942
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100943Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200944
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200945With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
946(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
947
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200948Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
949:drop (remote commands).
950
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200951Implement option_save() and option_restore():
952option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
953 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
954 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
955 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
956 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
957 be called when the same window is the current window.
958 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
959 the local options won't be restored.
960
961option_save({list}) *option_save()*
962 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
963 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
964 let s:saved_options = option_save([
965 \ 'ignorecase',
966 \ 'iskeyword',
967 \ ])
968 au <buffer> BufLeave *
969 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
970< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
971 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
972 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
973 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100974 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
975 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
976 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100977 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200978
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100979"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
980directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
981Also see #1689.
982
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100983When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100984highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100985
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100986No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
9872017 Dec 26, #2501)
988
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200989A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
990
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200991Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
992
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200993A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
994Mention where they were defined somewhere.
995
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200996ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
997
998Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
999
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001000Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
1001Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
1002
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001003Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
1004in #846)
1005Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
1006
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001007Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
1008Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
1009
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001010When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
1011redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001012
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001013In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
1014(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
1015
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001016Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
1017neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001018
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001019Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
1020Nov 21)
1021
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001022When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocommand event isn't
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +02001023triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
1024set_color_count().
1025
1026Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
1027responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
1028
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001029When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1030CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1031Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1032always nested.
1033
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001034matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1035
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001036Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1037
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001038MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001039for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1040
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001041Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001042(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001043
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +02001044Test more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001045
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001046Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001047
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001048Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1049defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1050Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1051
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001052After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
105313, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001054
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001055When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1056line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1057
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001058The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1059
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001060Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1061
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001062Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1063behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1064
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001065'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1066
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001067The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1068
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001069When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1070a command can delete it.
1071
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001072Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1073#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1074
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001075The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +01001076for another buffer. (lacygoill) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001077
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001078X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1079pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1080clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1081Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1082Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1083clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001084Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001085
1086Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1087
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001088Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1089attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +02001090that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001091
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001092Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1093(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1094
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001095Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1096buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1097Also fixes #2166?
1098
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001099Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1100possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1101
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001102When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1103case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1104
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001105Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1106existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1107Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1108
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001109MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1110Jul 4)
1111
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001112Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1113Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1114This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1115Christian cannot reproduce it.
1116
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001117Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1118wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1119Or is this not an actual problem?
1120
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001121Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1122
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001123Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1124
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001125'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1126#1736)
1127
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001128Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
11298, #1690)
1130
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001131Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1132it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1133
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001134Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1135
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001136assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1137it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1138
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001139Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1140for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001141
1142Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1143(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1144Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1145later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1146Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1147mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001148Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1149mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001150maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001151
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001152Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001153plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1154be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1155
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001156Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1157 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1158 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001159
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001160json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001161What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001162
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001163Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1164
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001165import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1166(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1167
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001168Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1169Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001170Another example in #1309
1171
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001172Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1173#1330)
1174
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001175Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1176
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001177GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1178g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1179timer expires.
1180
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001181Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1182highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1183
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001184Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1185Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1186
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001187Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1188key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1189 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1190 echo keytrans(xx)
1191 <C-Home>
1192
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001193Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1194(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1195Make a function to check for function-like type?
1196
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001197Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1198 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001199 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001200
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001201Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1202somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1203
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001204The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1205"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1206Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1207
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001208Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1209
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001210Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1211about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001212Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1213
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001214":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001215vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1216
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001217Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001218E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001219Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001220
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001221Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1222Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1223
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001224Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001225Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001226
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001227"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1228(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1229
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001230Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1231(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001232
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001233Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1234
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001235Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1236anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1237
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001238Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001239E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001240
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001241Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1242(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1243
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001244Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1245
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001246On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1247separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1248
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001249Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1250
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001251Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1252
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001253Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1254
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001255Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1256no longer support.
1257
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +02001258Support sort(l, 'F'), convert strings to float. (#7857)
Bram Moolenaar9faec4e2021-02-27 16:38:07 +01001259
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001260sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
12614#1038)
1262
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001263sort() does not use 'smartcase' for the skip pattern, even though 'ignorecase'
1264is used. (Filipe Brandenburger, #7322)
1265
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001266+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001267- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001268- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1269 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1270 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001271- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1272 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001273- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1274 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001275- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1276 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1277- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1278 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1279- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001280- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1281 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001282- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1283- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1284 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1285 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1286- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1287- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1288- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1289 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1290 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1291- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1292 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1293- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1294 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1295 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1296
1297Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001298- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1299 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1300 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1301 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001302- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1303 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001304- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1305 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1306- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1307 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1308- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1309 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1310 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1311 LC_CTYPE
1312- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1313 matches everywhere.
1314- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1315 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1316- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1317- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1318 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1319- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001320- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender,
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001321 2013 Dec 11)
1322- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1323 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1324- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1325- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1326 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1327- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1328- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1329- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1330- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1331 2015 Feb 7)
1332- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1333 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1334 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1335 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1336 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1337- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1338- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1339- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1340- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1341 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1342 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1343 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1344- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1345 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1346- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1347 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1348 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1349 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1350
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001351Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
13523. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1353Also see #1635.
1354
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001355Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1356doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1357Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001358Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001359E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1360
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001361cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1362
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001363:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1364
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001365Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1366
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001367When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1368synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1369
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001370Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1371Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001372
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001373ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1374Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001375
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001376Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1377Jul 25, #948)
1378
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001379Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1380names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1381Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1382the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1383
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001384MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1385Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001386
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001387Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1388times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1389
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001390Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1391
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001392We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1393the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1394
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001395Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1396
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001397When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1398emoji_width table has only one entry.
1399
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001400It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1401Reject the value? #710.
1402
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001403When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1404Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1405
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001406Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1407No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001408
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001409Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1410(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001411
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001412Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1413
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001414Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1415https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001416Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001417
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001418Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1419but the reference remains valid.
1420
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001421Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001422interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1423Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1424interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1425result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001426
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001427Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1428
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001429Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1430
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001431Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1432Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1433
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001434exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1435Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1436
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001437Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1438'iskeyword' for syntax.
1439
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001440Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1441It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1442Add configure check?
1443Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1444Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1445Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1446
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001447Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1448Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1449
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001450Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1451Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1452
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001453":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1454directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1455
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001456Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1457(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1458
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001459When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1460restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1461Do not trigger the event?
1462
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001463Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1464Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1465https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1466
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001467Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1468With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1469
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001470Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001471
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001472Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1473
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001474Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001475Only remembers one error.
1476
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001477GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001478
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001479Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1480(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001481
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001482Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1483github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001484 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001485Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001486
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001487Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001488
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001489Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001490comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001491
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001492Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1493
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001494MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1495wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1496
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001497Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1498specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1499
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001500Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1501(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1502
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001503Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001504'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1505before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001506
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001507C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1508and also line continuation after #include.
1509I can't recommend it though.
1510
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001511Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1512(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1513
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001514To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1515library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1516
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001517Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
151830)
1519
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001520MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1521(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1522
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001523The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
152424): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001525
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001526":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1527effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1528
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001529":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15309)
1531
1532The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1533wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1534
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001535Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001536Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001537
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001538When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1539the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1540
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001541Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001542slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1543inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1544
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001545ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
15462014 Sep 11)
1547
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001548Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1549(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1550
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001551When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1552'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1553
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001554Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1555Work in progress.
1556
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001557Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1558when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1559
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001560Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1561Is this right?
1562
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001563Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1564(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1565Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1566
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001567Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1568Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001569
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001570Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1571Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1572
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001573Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1574
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001575Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1576
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001577Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1578OK to not block marks?
1579
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001580Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1581
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001582When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1583(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1584
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001585Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001586
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001587Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1588(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1589
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001590When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1591any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1592
1593Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001594
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001595Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001596
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001597Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1598(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1599
1600Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1601
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001602Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1603Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1604was already defined.
1605(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1606
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001607Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1608
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001609Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001610Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001611Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001612Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001613
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001614Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1615(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1616
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001617Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1618(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1619
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001620Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1621
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001622When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1623these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1624window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1625
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001626Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1627should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1628history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1629Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1630
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001631"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1632Jun 8)
1633
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001634Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1635insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1636
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001637No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1638
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001639Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1640(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1641Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1642arguments.
1643
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001644Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1645
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001646Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1647right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001648its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001649
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001650Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1651
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001652This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1653 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1654This neither: (ZyX)
1655 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1656
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001657'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1658Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1659from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001660
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001661Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
16622014 Jun 8)
1663
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001664Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1665https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001666Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001667Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1668package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001669Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1670Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1671User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001672- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1673 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1674 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001675- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1676- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1677 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1678 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1679 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1680 on vim.org.
1681- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1682 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1683- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1684- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1685- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1686- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1687Implementation:
1688- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1689 plugin separate.
1690- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1691 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1692 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1693- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1694 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1695- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1696 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1697 installing.
1698Out of scope:
1699- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1700- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1701 useful).
1702
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001703When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1704menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1705
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001706Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1707(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1708
1709":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1710various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001711
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001712Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001713(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1714
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001715VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1716instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1717
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001718Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001719Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001720Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001721
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001722Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1723
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001724Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1725highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001726
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001727The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1728For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1729
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001730Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001731possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001732
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001733Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001734
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001735Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1736
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017377 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1738 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1739 "lucida_console:h8").
1740Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1741
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001742:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1743
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001744Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1745
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001746Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1747
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001748When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1749(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1750
1751Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001752Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001753
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001754GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1755(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1756
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001757Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1758registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1759
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001760Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1761
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001762The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1763(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1764Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1765
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001766Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1767Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1768reliably?
1769
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001770Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1771(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1772
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001773Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1774(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001775Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1776(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1777try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1778try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001779
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001780Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17812013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001782
1783Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1784
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001785Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
17865)
1787
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001788Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1789carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1790
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001791Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1792highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1793
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001794Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001795
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001796Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200179728) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001798
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001799Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1800
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001801Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1802
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001803- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1804 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1805Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001806
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001807Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001808
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001809In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1810process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1811a reboot.
1812
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001813patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001814Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1815Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001816
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001817Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1818not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001819
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001820Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1821Or use expand('<sid>')?
1822
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001823Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1824
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001825Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1826
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001827b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
18287)
1829
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001830Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1831compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1832
1833Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1834Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1835vim.bindeval().
1836
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001837Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18382012 Aug 4)
1839
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001840Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1841(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1842
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001843Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1844But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1845
1846Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1847Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1848Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001849
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001850Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1851loading all files.
1852
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001853'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001854
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001855Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001856of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1857
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001858The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1859Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1860But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001861
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001862When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1863is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1864
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001865URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001866- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001867- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1868 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1869
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001870Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1871(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1872Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1873
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001874Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001875New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001876
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001877When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1878for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1879Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001880
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001881Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1882
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001883Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1884
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001885Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1886Apr 18)
1887
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001888Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1889And one for gui_x11.txt.
1890
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001891":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1892finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1893Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1894
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001895Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1896
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001897Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1898
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001899Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1900they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1901
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001902Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1903
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001904Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1905Nov 20)
1906
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001907Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001908Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001909
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001910`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001911(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1912
1913Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1914
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001915BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1916Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1917
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001918Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1919Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1920
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001921Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1922
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001923On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
19242012 Jun 19)
1925
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001926'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1927'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1928Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001929Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001930
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001931With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1932(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1933need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1934
1935Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1936only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
193721, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1938
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001939Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1940New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1941
1942Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1943Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1944
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001945Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1946Jan 19)
1947
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001948Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1949discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1950meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001951
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001952"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001953Oct 26)
1954
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001955Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1956
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001957With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1958register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001959
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001960Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1961
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001962When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1963(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1964
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001965When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1966then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1967from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1968
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001969Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1970":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
197115)
1972
1973Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1974
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001975BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1976cleared. See test64.
1977
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001978On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
197964 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1980right type.
1981
1982string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1983(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1984
1985When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1986(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001987When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1988following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1989(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001990
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001991When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1992doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1993
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001994Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1995
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001996When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1997indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1998the help file.
1999
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002000After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2001Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2002
2003Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2004
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002005"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002006
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002007Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2008
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002009Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002010
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +02002011Using "syn sync breaklines=2" works for when text is changed, but not when
2012scrolling or redrawing. Should start search for syntax patterns above the
2013first drawn line. (#8103)
2014
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002015Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
20162010 Dec 18)
2017
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002018With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2019number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2020Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2021
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002022Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2023Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2024
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020258 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2026Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2027
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002028Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2029one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2030the match scrolls into view.
2031
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020327 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2033Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2034Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2035
20369 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2037 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2038Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2039
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002040Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2041Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2042
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002043In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2044or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2045sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2046
2047GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2048doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2049
2050GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2051
2052Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2053Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2054
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002055Wish for NetBeans commands:
2056 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2057
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002058Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2059
20607.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2061there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2062do?
2063
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002064Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
206522)
2066
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002067New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2068- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002069- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002070 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2071
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002072"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20732011 Feb 27)
2074
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002075Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2076^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2077
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002078When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2079exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20809) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2081
2082g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2083the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2084
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002085Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2086crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2087
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002088Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2089number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2090
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002091Regexp engine performance:
2092- Profiling:
2093 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2094 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2095 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2096 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2097 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2098 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2099- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2100- Performance tests:
2101 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2102 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2103 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2104 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2105 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2106 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2107 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2108 'hlsearch'.
2109 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2110 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2111 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2112 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2113
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002114Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2115Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2116
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002117'beval' option should be global-local.
2118
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002119Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002120
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002121setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002122
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002123With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
21242010 Oct 24)
2125
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002126Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2127
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002128When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2129Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2130
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002131":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2132
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002133'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2134
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002135C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2136checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2137Issue 46.
2138
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002139Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2140
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002141Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2142gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2143
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002144":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2145accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2146
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002147Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2148setwinvar().
2149
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002150Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002151
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002152When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2153instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2154
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002155Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2156Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2157Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002158
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002159Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2160back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2161
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002162Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002163Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2164
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002165CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2166the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01002167FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Philippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002168
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002169Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2170Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2171
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002172Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2173Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2174
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002175Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2176
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002177Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2178non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002179
2180iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2181Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2182or replace with a character and continue?
2183
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002184Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2185Requires configure check for localtime().
2186Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2187
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002188Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2189
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002190Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2191Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2192path.
2193
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002194Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002195Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002196
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002197'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2198
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002199":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2200like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2201
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002202Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2203https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002204
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002205Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
22062010 Nov 5)
2207
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002208Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002209Jan 7)
2210
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002211Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2212
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002213With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2214entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2215Feb 12)
2216
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002217Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2218characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2219
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002220Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2221
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002222Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2223 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2224
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002225Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2226
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002227When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2228Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2229
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002230For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002231line argument -noregister.
2232
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002233When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2234missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2235
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002236When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2237doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002238
2239Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2240(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2241Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2242There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2243Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2244
2245":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2246highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2247to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2248
2249Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2250Probably needs a bit of work.
2251
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002252List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002253Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2254
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002255Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2256
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002257Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2258
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002259Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2260
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002261Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2262on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2263
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002264Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22652009 Jul 18)
2266
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002267Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2268window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2269Needs more work.
2270
2271Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2272
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002273When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2274few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2275
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002276'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002277(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2278
2279Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2280J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2281
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002282When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2283for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2284
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002285Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2286
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002287":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2288because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2289ex_docmd.c.
2290
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002291Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002292Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2293
2294string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2295for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2296
2297Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2298
2299'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
230020)
2301
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002302Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
23032009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2304
2305Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2306
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002307When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2308indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2309(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2310
2311Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2312are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2313Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2314Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2315that doesn't have a window.
2316
2317When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2318doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2319
2320getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2321displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2322
2323":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2324
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002325There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2326was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2327perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2328
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002329Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2330
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002331Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2332command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2333
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002334Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2335does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2336
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002337opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2338height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002339very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002340
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002341Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002342(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2343
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002344Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2345char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2346
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002347Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2348Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2349
2350This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2351
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002352Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2353messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2354es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
23552009 Jan 26)
2356
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002357When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002358in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2359Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2360
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002361Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2362a modeline.
2363
2364Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2365Sergey Khorev)
2366
2367Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2368part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +020023696 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
2370 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
2371 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +01002372Also do this for the small delete register "-.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002373
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002374After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2375correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2376
2377Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2378(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2379
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002380shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002381'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2382Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2383unix-like shell?
2384
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002385Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2386register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2387(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2388
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002389Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2390Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2391
2392Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2393make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2394
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002395When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2396still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2397
2398"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2399(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2400
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002401MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2402doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2403probably causes this.
2404
2405'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020024062009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002407
2408Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2409 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2410 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2411(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2412
2413Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2414":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2415option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2416is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002417
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002418":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2419first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002420Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002421
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002422Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2423laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2424Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002425
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002426Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2427anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2428
2429On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2430doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2431Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2432Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2433
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002434When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2435'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2436fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2437the buffer to be unmodified.
2438Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2439another look at it.
2440
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002441c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2442(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2443
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002444You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2445error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2446Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2447at the other match for 0xBF.
2448
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002449When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2450argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2451
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002452Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2453backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2454
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002455When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2456line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2457
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002458After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2459(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002460command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002461
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002462":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2463Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2464
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002465When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2466either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2467put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2468
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002469Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2470Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2471Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2472Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2473(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2474
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002475Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2476
2477ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002478
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002479Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2480(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2481escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2482an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002483This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2484July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002485Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2486work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2487
2488When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
248931)
2490
2491Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2492work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2493Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002494
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002495Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002496multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002497(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2498
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002499Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
25002008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002501Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002502
2503Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2504Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2505'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2506
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002507Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2508Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2509
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002510Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2511Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2512
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020025138 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2514 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2515 several).
2516 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2517 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2518 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2519Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2520
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002521The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002522 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002523 0x2217, star
2524 0x2500, bar
2525 0x26ab, circle
2526
2527Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2528line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2529
2530GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2531Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2532
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002533Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2534try the Cocoa version.
2535
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002536Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2537changed or the window is resized.
2538
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002539GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2540the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2541
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002542Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2543Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002544
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002545Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
25461) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2547
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002548C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2549with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2550Try to reproduce at work.
2551
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002552Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2553Is there a way to list all the files first?
2554
2555When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2556result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
255716)
2558
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002559Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2560(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2561
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002562Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2563Await response to question to make the register writable.
2564
2565Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
25661)
2567
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002568In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2569each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2570
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002571":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2572Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2573
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002574Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2575
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002576Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2577Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2578
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002579Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2580Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2581Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002582
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002583When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2584and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2585
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002586Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2587 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2588
2589New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2590
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002591":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2592a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2593
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002594Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2595other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2596
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002597The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2598appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2599matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2600
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002601When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2602character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2603'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2604(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2605
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002606Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2607Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002608
2609More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2610
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002611Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2612http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2613
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002614Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2615No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2616
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002617Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2618terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002619
2620Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2621
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002622Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2623but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2624that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002625
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002626Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2627Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2628
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002629Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2630popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2631size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2632This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2633
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002634When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2635it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2636
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002637Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2638then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2639files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002640Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2641indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2642":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002643in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2644quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002645Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002646
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002647When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2648parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2649neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2650particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2651Jun 3)
2652However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2653the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002654
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002655A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2656Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2657
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002658Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2659Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2660
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002661Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2662switch list is noticed:
2663 switch (i)
2664 {
2665 case 1:
2666 foobar:
2667 }
2668
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002669Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2670
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002671Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2672with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2673go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2674moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2675
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002676Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002677GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002678Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2679argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2680(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2681
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002682Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2683(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2684
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002685Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
26862007 Feb 8)
2687
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002688Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2689set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002690
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002691Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2692
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002693Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2694Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2695New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2696patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2697
2698Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2699Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2700
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002701Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002702label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2703
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002704Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2705with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2706Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002707
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002708Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2709
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002710Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2711Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2712only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2713
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002714Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2715Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002716Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002717properly?
2718
2719Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
27202007 Jun 21)
2721
2722When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2723Jun 18)
2724
2725If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2726
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002727In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2728the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2729
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002730C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2731
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002732":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2733
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002734When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002735error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002736
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002737GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002738use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2739
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002740Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2741if_ruby.c.
2742
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002743":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2744
2745The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2746it in keep_msg?
2747
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002748Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002749error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002750name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2751
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002752Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2753longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002754
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002755Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2756Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2757Also for ":w" without a file name.
2758The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002759
2760"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2761Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2762
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002763VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2764directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2765(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2766
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002767VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2768
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002769input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2770name?
2771
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002772Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2773
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002774When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2775(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002776Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002777will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2778
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002779gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2780This also fails with --remote.
2781
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002782When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
27832008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2784all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2785
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002786aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2787
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002788When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2789(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2790
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002791Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2792the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2793
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002794GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2795
2796Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2797Jun 5)
2798
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002799Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
28002008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2801Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2802
2803In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2804but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2805Jul 22)
2806
2807There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2808
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002809Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2810
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002811Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2812moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2813that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2814
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002815The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2816
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002817When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002818cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2819the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2820
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002821These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2822 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2823 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2824 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2825
2826Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2827partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2828
2829In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2830buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2831reload it then?
2832
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002833For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2834
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002835Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2836only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2837
2838Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2839tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2840doesn't contain other directories.
2841
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002842Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2843Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2844
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002845Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2846 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2847 set background=dark
2848This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2849color is, not reset it.
2850
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002851Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2852start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2853show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2854middle?
2855
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002856Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2857
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002858When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2859current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2860the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2861
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002862When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2863Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2864
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002865Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2866Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2867
2868Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2869
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002870A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2871Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2872
2873Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2874Dara, 2006 June 21)
2875
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002876Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2877number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2878
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002879After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2880the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2881
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002882Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002883
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002884Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2885Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2886
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002887Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010028882008 Sep 29)
2889
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002890In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2891check the result of has("patch13").
2892
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002893Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2894restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2895
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002896Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2897and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2898
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002899Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2900put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2901
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002902Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2903resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2904
2905In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2906can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2907
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002908GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2909maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2910doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002911Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2912visible.
2913
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002914When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2915differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002916
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002917The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2918be only one.
2919
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002920Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002921"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2922name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2923Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002924
2925Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2926(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2927
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002928Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2929as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2930
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002931Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
293223)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002933
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002934":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2935tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2936Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002937
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002938When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2939text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2940latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2941
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002942Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2943no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2944
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002945In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2946VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
29472007 Oct 16)
2948
2949TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2950Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2951
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002952Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002953
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002954When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2955typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2956Sep 3, 11)
2957
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002958":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2959this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2960
2961When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2962Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2963restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2964
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002965Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
29662010 Jun 30)
2967
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002968Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2969'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2970(Kartik Agaram)
2971
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002972
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002973Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002974- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2975 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2976- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2977 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2978 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2979- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2980 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2981 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002982- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2983- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002984
2985
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002986More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002987- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2988 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002989- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002990- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2991 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002992- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2993- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2994- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2995 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2996 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002997- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002998- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2999 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3000- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3001 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3002- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3003 21)
3004- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3005 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3006- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3007 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +02003008- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill McCarthy, 2008
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003009 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003010- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3011 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3012 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3013 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3014 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003015- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003016
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003017Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000030189 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3019 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3020 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3021 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3022 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3023 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3024 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3025 (Alan Schmitt)
3026 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003027 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3028 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000030299 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003030 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030318 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030327 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3033 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3034 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030358 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003036 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020030377 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003038 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3039- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003040 for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003041- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3042- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3043 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3044 been given values.
3045 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030467 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3047 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3048- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3049 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3050 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
30518 Add functions:
3052 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3053 Update 2004 Sep 10
3054 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3055 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003056 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003057 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3058 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3059 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3060 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3061 (2003 May 13)
3062 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3063 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003064 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3065 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003066 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3067 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3068 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030697 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3070 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030717 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3072 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000030738 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +02003074 (unencrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030757 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
30768 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3077 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
30787 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3079 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030807 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3081- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3082 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3083 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003084- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3085 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3086- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3087
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003088Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3089- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3090 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3091
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02003092
3093Spell checking:
3094- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap
3095 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away
3096 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line
3097 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col".
3098- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
3099- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single
3100 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
3101 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
3102 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be
3103 downloaded.
3104- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new
3105 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
3106- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers
3107 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
3108- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character,
3109 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
3110- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
3111 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use
3112 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function.
3113
3114
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003115Quickfix/Location List:
3116- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3117 #2999)
3118- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3119 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3120 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3121 the quickfix buffer?
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003122- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3123 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3124- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3125 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3126 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003127- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3128- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3129 2007 Jan 1)
3130- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3131 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3132- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3133 errors. How do we get the rest?
31348 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3135 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3136 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3137 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
31387 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02003139 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003140
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003141Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003142- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3143 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031448 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3145 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3146 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3147 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3148 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3149 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031508 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3151 make Vim exit.
31527 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3153 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3154 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
31558 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3156 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3157 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
31586 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3159 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3160 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
31618 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3162 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3163 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3164 names in one buffer???
3165 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3166 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3167 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
31687 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3169 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3170 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003171 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3172 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031737 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3174 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
31757 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031767 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3177 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3178 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3179 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
31807 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
31817 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
31827 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3183 to the match with the tag? Option?
31847 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
31857 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3186 (Sayre).
31877 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3188 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031897 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3190 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3191 match. Nvi can do it too.
31927 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3193 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3194 line 1\ line 2\\
3195 line 2\ line 3\\
3196 . line4/
31976 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3198 the way the shell is started?
31996 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3200 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3201
3202
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003203GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032049 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032058 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3206 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3207 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000032088 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3209 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3210 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032119 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3212 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3213 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3214 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003215- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3216 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3217 blocked for now.
3218
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003219
3220Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003221- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3222 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032238 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3224 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3225 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032266 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3227 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032288 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3229 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3230 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032317 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3232 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3233 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032347 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3235 2004 May 9)
32368 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3237 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3238 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3239 MS-Windows 98?
3240 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3241 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3242 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3243 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032448 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3245 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3246 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3247 doesn't work properly.
32488 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3249 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3250 appears in the right position. (Webb)
32519 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3252 button doesn't give popup menu.
3253 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3254 selection.
3255 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3256 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3257 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
32588 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3259 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3260 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3261 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
32628 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3263 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3264 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032657 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3266 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003267 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032687 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3269 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032706 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
32718 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3272 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3273 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
32748 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3275 know which keyboard is being used?
32767 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3277 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3278 area (Koloseike).
32798 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3280 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3281 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3282 the font name).
3283
3284
3285Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000032866 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3287 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3288 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3289 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3290 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032919 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3292 required and it's missing?
32938 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3294 wrong.
32959 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3296 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000032979 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003298 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3299 flag.
33008 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3301 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3302 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
33038 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
33046 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3305 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3306 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3307 the tooltips work though...
33087 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3309 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
33108 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3311 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3312 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3313
3314
3315Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010033169 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3317 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033189 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3319 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3320 through files.
33217 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3322 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33234 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3324 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3325 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3326 problem during a refresh.
33275 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3328 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3329 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3330 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3331 colors as it should.
3332 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3333 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3334
3335
3336Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003337- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033387 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3339 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033408 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3341 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3342 (Phillipps)
3343
3344
3345GUI:
33469 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3347 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
33489 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003349 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003350 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
33519 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3352 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033538 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3354 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3355 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
33568 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3357 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3358 of where it is processing the output.
3359 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
33608 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3361 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010033628 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000033638 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3364 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3365 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020033668 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033678 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3368 browse().
33698 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3370 use that code? Or use console dialog.
33718 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3372 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033737 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3374 - regexp on/off
3375 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3376 when all buffers/directory is used:
3377 - filter for file name
3378 when directory is used:
3379 - subdirectory on/off
3380 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033818 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3382 to avoid problems.
33838 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3384 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3385 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
33868 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3387 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3388 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
33898 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3390 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033918 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
33927 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3393 visible.
33947 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3395 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
33967 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3397 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
33988 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3399 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
34008 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3401 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3402 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3403 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3404- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
34054 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3406 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3407 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3408
3409
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003410Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034118 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3412 a good fallback, thus use:
3413 $HOME
3414 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3415 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3416 $USERPROFILE
3417 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3418 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3419 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3420 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034218 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3422 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
34238 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3424 Should work like in the GUI version.
34258 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3426 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
34278 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3428 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
34298 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3430 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3431 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034328 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3433 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3434 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3435
3436
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003437Win32 console:
34389 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3439 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3440 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3441 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3442 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3443 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3444 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3445 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3446 and the file is not saved.
3447 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3448 long name.
34498 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3450 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
34517 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3452 besides the console.
34538 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
34549 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3455 <C-S-i>?
34569 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3457 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
34588 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3459 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003460
3461
3462Amiga:
34638 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3464 sequences.
34659 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3466 backslashes in result.
34678 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3468 all options, using white space separation.
3469
3470
3471Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003472- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034737 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3474 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3475 (Jack)
3476 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034778 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3478 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034798 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
34808 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
34819 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3482 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034839 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003484
3485
3486"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003487- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3488 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000034899 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3490 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000034919 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003492 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3493 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034948 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3495 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3496 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003497 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034987 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3499 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
35008 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3501 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3502 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035037 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3504 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003505- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3506 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035078 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3508 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3509 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3510 using the horizontal scrollbar.
35117 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3512 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3513 invocations belong together.
35148 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3515 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
35168 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3517 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3518 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003519 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035208 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3521 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3522 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035238 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3524 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035257 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3526 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3527 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3528 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035297 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3530 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3531 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
35327 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3533 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3534 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
35357 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3536 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035377 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3538 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035399 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3540 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3541 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3542 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3543 script can be called.
35448 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3545 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3546 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035478 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3548 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000035498 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003550 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3551 configurable?
35528 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035538 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3554 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020035558 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3556 is a multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035578 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3558 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035599 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3560 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3561 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035627 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035638 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3564 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3565 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000035668 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3567 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003568 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3569 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035708 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3571 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
35729 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3573 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3574 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003575 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035767 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3577 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035787 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3579 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3580 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3581 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035828 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003583 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3584 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3585 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3586 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003587 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3588 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003589 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003590 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003591 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3592 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3593 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3594 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3595 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035968 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3597 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
35988 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3599 in lines that don't extend into the block?
36008 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3601 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3602 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
36038 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3604 'linebreak'.
36058 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3606 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3607 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036089 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3609 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3610 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3611 'magic' in history. (Margo)
36129 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3613 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036149 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
36159 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3616 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3617 cause another redraw, etc.
36188 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3619 must escape special characters in the pattern.
36208 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3621 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3622 ":w!!" for that.
3623 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3624 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003625 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036267 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3627 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3628 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3629 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3630 clipboard)
36317 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3632 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3633 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000036346 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3635 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3636 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036378 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3638 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
36398 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3640 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3641 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
36428 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3643 (e.g., ":w").
36448 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3645 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036468 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3647 script in do_cmdline().
36488 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3649 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3650 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3651 changes.
36528 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3653 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
36548 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3655 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036568 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3657 to skip catch_signals()?
36589 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3659 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3660 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3661 text?
36628 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3663 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
36648 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3665 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
36669 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3667 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3668 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3669 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3670 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
36717 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3672 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3673 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3674 in the list?
36758 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3676 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3677 instead of on button down.
36788 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036798 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3680 character is typed.
36818 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3682 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
36838 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3684 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
36858 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3686 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3687 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3688 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3689 cygwin bash.
36907 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3691 Remember flags for backreferences.
36927 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3693 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
36947 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3695 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
36968 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3697 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
36987 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3699 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037007 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3701 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3702 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
37037 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3704 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
37058 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3706 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003707 that the user knows the files have to be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003708
3709
3710I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
37119 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3712 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3713 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003714
3715
3716Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003717- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3718 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3719 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003720- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3721 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3722 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3723 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3724 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3725 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003726 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003727- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3728 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003729 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003730 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3731 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3732 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003733- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3734 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3735 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3736 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3737 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3738- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3739 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3740 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3741- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3742 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003743- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003744- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3745 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3746 character gets the highlighting.
3747- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3748 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3749- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3750 (Jennings)
3751- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003752- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003753- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003754 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003755- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3756 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3757 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3758- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3759 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3760 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3761 (Benzinger).
3762- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3763 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3764 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3765- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3766 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3767- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3768 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3769- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3770 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3771 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3772 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3773 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3774 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3775- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3776 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3777 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003778- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3779 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3780 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003781- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3782 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3783 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3784- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3785 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3786- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3787 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003788- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3789 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3790- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3791 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3792 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3793 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3794 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3795- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3796 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3797 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3798- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3799 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3800 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003801- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3802 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 +00003803- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3804 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3805 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3806 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3807 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3808- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3809 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3810
3811--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3812 *extensions-improvements*
3813
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003814Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3815- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3816 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3817 calling a function.
3818 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3819 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003820- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3821 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003822 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003823- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3824 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3825 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3826 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3827 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3828 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003829 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003830- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3831 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3832 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003833- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3834 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000038358 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3836 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3837 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3838 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003839- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3840 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003841
3842
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003843Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038448 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3845 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000038468 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3847 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000038488 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3849 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038508 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038519 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3852 - change to cursor position and curswant
3853 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3854 - how it works for folded lines
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003855 - how it works with multibyte characters
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038568 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3857 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3858 text.
38598 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
38607 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3861 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
38627 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3863 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003864 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003865- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3866
3867
3868Help:
3869- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3870 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3871- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3872 to the other matches.
3873- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003874- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3875 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003876 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003877 default contents.
3878- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3879 height for the help window (and other windows).
3880- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3881- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3882- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3883
3884
3885User Friendlier:
38868 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3887 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3888 Briscoe)
38898 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
38908 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3891 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3892 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
38938 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3894 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3895- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3896 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003897- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
38989 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3899 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3900 item?).
3901 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039028 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000039037 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3904 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3905 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000039068 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3907 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3908 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3909 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003910
3911
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003912Tab pages:
39139 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039147 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3915 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039168 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000039178 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039187 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039197 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003920 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039218 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3922 tab pages.
39237 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3924
3925
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003926Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003927- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01003928 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003929- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3930 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3931 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3932- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3933 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003934- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3935 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3936 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003937- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3938 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3939 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003940- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003941 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3942 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000039438 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3944 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
39458 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3946 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
39478 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3948 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003949 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003950 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3951 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3952 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3953 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003954- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3955 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003956- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003957- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3958 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003959- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003960 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003961- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003962 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003963- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3964 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003965- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3966 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3967- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003968 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003969 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3970 in the affix file separately.
3971 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003972 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003973 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3974 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3975 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3976- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3977 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3978 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3979 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3980 Alternative:
3981 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3982 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3983 affix which is required.
3984- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003985 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003986- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3987 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3988 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003989- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3990 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003991- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3992 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3993- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000039948 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3995 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3996 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3997 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003998- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3999 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4000 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4001 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040028 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4003 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040048 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
40058 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4006 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040077 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
40088 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4009 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4010 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4011 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004012
4013
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004014Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020040159 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4016 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020040178 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004018 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004019
4020Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004021 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4022 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040238 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4024 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020040258 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4026 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040278 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4028 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4029 user aware of this?
40308 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4031 commands skip over a closed fold.
40328 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
40338 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040347 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004035- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4036 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4037 missing line goes unnoticed.
4038 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004039- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4040 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4041 smoother?
4042- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4043 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004044- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4045 file can contain:
4046 args version.c main.c
4047 edit version.c
4048 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004049- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004050- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4051 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004052- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4053 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004054- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4055 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004056- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004057
4058Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004059- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4060 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4061 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4062 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040639 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4064 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4065 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4066 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020040679 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4068 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4069 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040708 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4071 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4072 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4073 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4074 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4075 item.
40768 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004077 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4078 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040798 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4080 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040818 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4082 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4083 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040847 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4085 so that the user can fix the problem.
40868 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4087 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040889 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020040898 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters.
40908 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040918 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040927 Searching and composing characters:
4093 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004094 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4095 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040968 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
40978 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020040988 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004099 characters.
41008 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
41018 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4102 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
41037 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4104 'display' option to specify this.
41057 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4106 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4107- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4108 fontselector somehow.
4109- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4110 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4111- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4112 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4113- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4114 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4115 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4116 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4117 if a font exists?
4118- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004119 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004120- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4121 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004122- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004123 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4124 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004125 at a multibyte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004126- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4127 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004128 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004129- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004130 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4131 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4132 But it's very complicated...
4133
4134
4135Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000041367 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004137- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4138- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4139 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004140- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4141 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004142- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4143- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4144 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004145- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4146 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004147- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4148 units as for the margins.
4149- Support right-to-left text?
41508 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4151 color.
4152
4153
4154Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041558 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4156 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
41578 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4158 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
41598 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4160 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000041617 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4162 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041638 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4164 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4165 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041667 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4167 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4168 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041698 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
41709 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4171 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041727 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4173 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000041747 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4175 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041768 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4177 change this for each release.
41788 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4179 pattern, but not in the body.
41808 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4181 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4182 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041838 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010041848 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004185 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4186 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041878 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4188 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
41898 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4190 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004191 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041928 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4193 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4194 used.
41958 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4196 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
41978 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4198 re-insert the [] if possible.
41998 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4200 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000042018 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4202 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4203 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4204 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4205 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042068 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4207 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
42088 Support for deleting syntax items:
4209 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4210 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4211 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
42128 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4213 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4214 a '<'. (Fleiner)
42157 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4216 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4217 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
42187 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4219 detected.
42208 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004221 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042228 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4223 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042248 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
42258 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
42267 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4227 ":mkvimrc".
42288 Improve c.vim:
4229 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4230 "c_strict_ansi".
4231 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
42328 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4233 current line while in Insert mode.
42348 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4235 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
42368 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4237 display position.
42388 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4239 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4240 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
42418 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4242 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4243 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000042447 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4245 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4246 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4247 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4248 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042497 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4250 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4251 E.g. for this html:
4252 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042537 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
42547 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4255 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042568 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
42578 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042587 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4259 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4260 completion?
42618 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4262 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
42637 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4264 select one of the sets.
42658 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4266 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4267 2, etc.
42688 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4269 highlighting (for "." command).
42708 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4271 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
42728 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
42737 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4274 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
42756 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4276 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4277- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4278 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4279- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004280- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4281 (for comment blocks).
4282- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4283 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4284 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4285 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4286 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4287 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4288 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4289 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4290 (Campbell)
4291 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4292 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
42937 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4294 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
42957 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4296 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4297 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
42987 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4299 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4300 messages. And external commands?
43018 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4302 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
43037 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4304 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4305
4306
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004307Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043088 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4309 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004310 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000043117 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4312 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4313 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004314- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020043158 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4316 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4317 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4318 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4319 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4320 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000043217 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4322 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043238 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010043248 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4325 can be the plugin name.
4326 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4327 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043287 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4329 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4330 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4331 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4332 autocommand.
4333 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4334 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4335 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4336 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043377 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4338 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043396 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4340 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043418 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004342 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4343 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004344 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4345 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4346 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004347 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4348 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4349 3 2002
4350 Only add this when also implemented for
4351 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4352 be used.
4353 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004354 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4355 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4356 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4357 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4358 File.Open..." argument.
4359 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4360 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4361 with properties instead.
4362 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4363 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4364 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004365 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004366 crypt() encrypt string
4367 decrypt() decrypt string
4368 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4369 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004370 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004371 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004372 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004373 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004374 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004375 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4376 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004377 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4378 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004379 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004380 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4381 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4382 to allow the library to execute a command or
4383 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043847 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4385 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
43868 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4387 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043888 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4389 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043908 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043916 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000043928 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4393 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043948 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4395 option or environment variable.
43968 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043978 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004398 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000043997 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4400 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044018 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4402 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
44038 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
44048 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4405 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4406 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4407 charwise({expr}).
44087 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4409 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4410 buffer for this?
4411 result = scratch(string, command)
4412 result = apply(string, command)
4413 result = execute(string, command)
4414 "command" would use <> notation.
4415 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
44167 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004417
4418
4419Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000044206 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4421 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4422 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4423 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4424 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4425 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4426 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004427
4428
4429Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044307 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4431 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020044327 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4433 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4434 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4435 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044368 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4437 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4438 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4439 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004440 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044418 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
44429 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
44438 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
44447 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4445 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
44468 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4447 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4448 when starting up in a color terminal.
44498 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4450 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044518 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4452 function be improved?
44538 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4454 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4455 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4456 this be improved?
44578 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4458 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000044597 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4460 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044617 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4462 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
44637 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4464 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044657 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4466 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4467 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4468 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4469 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4470 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4471 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044728 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4473 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4474 using strcmp() too often?
44757 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4476 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4477 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4478 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4479 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4480 the two blocks to the memfile block.
44817 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4482 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4483 with an argument that can be messed with.
4484 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4485 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
44867 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4487- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
44888 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4489 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4490- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4491 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4492- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4493- Do profiling on:
4494 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004495 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4496 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4497 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4498 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4499 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4500 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004501 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045027 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4503 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4504 changed).
4505 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4506 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4507- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4508- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4509 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4510- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4511 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4512 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004513- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4514- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4515 cursor is right of the screen.
45168 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4517 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4518
4519
4520Code size:
45218 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4522- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4523 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
45248 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
45258 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4526 it.
45277 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4528 left out.
45298 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4530 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010045318 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004532
4533
4534Messages:
45358 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4536 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
45378 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4538 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
45398 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4540 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004541- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4542 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4543- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
45449 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4545 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4546 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4547 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4548 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045498 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4550 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
45518 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4552 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4553 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4554 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4555 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4556 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004557- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004558 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045598 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4560 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4561 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4562 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4563 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4564 error messages, printing text, etc.
45658 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4566 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4567 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4568
4569
4570Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004571- screen_line():
4572 - insert/delete character stuff.
4573 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4574- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4575 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4576- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4577 waiting for a character.
45788 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4579 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4580 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004581
4582Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020045838 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045846 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4585- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4586 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4587 windows.
45887 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4589 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4590 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4591- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4592 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4593 (Goldfarb)
4594- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4595 bound windows.
4596- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4597 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004598- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004599- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4600 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4601 of lines but not with a single line).
4602
4603
4604Autoconf:
46058 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
46068 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4607 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4608- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4609 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4610- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4611- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4612- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4613
4614
4615Perl interface:
46168 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046177 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
46187 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
46196 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4620
4621
4622Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020046238 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4624 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046256 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4626 :libload internal-name libname
4627 :libunload internal-name
4628 :liblist
4629 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4630 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4631 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
46326 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4633
4634
4635Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000046369 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4637 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4638 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4639 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4640 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046418 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4642 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4643 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004644 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004645 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046467 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4647 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4648 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046498 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
46508 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4651 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046527 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4653 window for each tag.
46547 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
46557 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4656 bottom" search message.
46577 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4658 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4659 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004660- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4661- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004662- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4663 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4664 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046657 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4666 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4667 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4668 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
46697 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4670 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4671 :tagargs clear
4672 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4673 matching).
46747 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4675 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4676 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4677 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
46787 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4679 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
46807 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4681 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4682 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004683
4684
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004685Win32 GUI:
46868 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4687 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046887 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4689 (Mike McCollister)
46908 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4691 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4692 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4693 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4694 common part of the path.
46958 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
46968 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4697 gettext and menus work.
46988 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4699 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004700 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004701 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
47028 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4703 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
47048 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4705 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
47067 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4707 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
47087 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
47097 <Esc> should close a dialog.
47107 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4711 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4712 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4713 prompts.
47147 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4715 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4716 the file added into an already running Vim.
47177 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4718 functions to find the window title.
4719
4720
4721GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047227 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
47238 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
47246 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
47258 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4726 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
47279 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
47287 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
47298 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4730 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
47318 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4732 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4733 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
47348 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4735 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
47368 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4737 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4738 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4739 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047407 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
47418 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4742 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000047437 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4744 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4745 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047468 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
47478 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004748 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047498 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
47508 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
47518 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4752 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4753 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
47547 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4755 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4756 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
47577 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4758 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
47597 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4760 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4761 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4762 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047637 Should support multi-column menus.
4764- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4765 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4766- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
47678 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
47686 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4769 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
47707 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
47717 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4772 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4773 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
47747 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
47758 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4776 name can be chosen free.
47777 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4778 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
47796 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4780 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4781 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4782 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4783 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4784 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4785 things.
47867 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4787 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047887 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004789 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004790- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4791 where it was started from?
47927 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4793
4794
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004795Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020047969 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4797 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004798- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047998 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4800 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4801 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4802 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
48038 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4804 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000048057 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4806 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4807 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4808 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000048097 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048108 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4811 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048128 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4813 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4814 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048157 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4816 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4817 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048188 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4819 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4820 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048218 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4822 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048238 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048246 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4825 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048267 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048277 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004828 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4829 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4830 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048315 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4832 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4833 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
48347 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4835 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4836 file.
48378 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4838 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4839 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004840- Add events to autocommands:
4841 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004842 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004843 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4844 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004845 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004846 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004847 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4848 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4849 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4850 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004851 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004852 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4853 the char.
4854 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4855 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4856 file from CVS).
4857 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4858 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4859 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4860 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4861 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4862 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004863 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4864 changes.
4865 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4866 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004867- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004868 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004869 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004870 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4871 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4872 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4873 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4874 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4875
4876
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004877Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004878- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4879 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004880- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4881 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4882 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4883 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4884 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004885- Ideas from others:
4886 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4887 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4888 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4889 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4890 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4891 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4892 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4893 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4894 Uses Perl for C++.
4895 Uses ctags to find the info:
4896 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4897 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4898 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4899 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4900 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4901 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004902 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004903 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4904- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4905
4906
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004907Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004908- Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
4909 (Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
4910- When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline.
4911 (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 23, #1653)
4912- Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
4913- When complete() first argument is before where insert started and
4914 'backspace' is Vi compatible, the completion fails.
4915 (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
4916- The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
4917 - The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
4918 - Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
4919- When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a
4920 number, not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist()
4921 to force a string value.
4922- When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes back to originally
4923 completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
4924 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004925- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000049267 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4927 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000049287 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4929 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4930 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049318 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4932 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
49339 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4934 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4935 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049368 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4937 - ignore/match case
4938 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049398 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4940 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4941 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4942 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4943 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4944 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049458 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000049467 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4947 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049488 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4949 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4950 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4951 Should work for C++ and Java.
4952 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
49537 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
49547 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4955 instead of words.
49568 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
49578 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4958 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
49598 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4960 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004961- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4962 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004963- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4964 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4965 wildcards in the file name)?
4966- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4967- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4968- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4969 be in another file).
4970- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4971- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4972- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4973 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4974- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4975- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4976- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004977- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4978
4979
4980Command line editing:
49817 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4982 line.
49838 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4984 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4985 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4986- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4987 lines wraps to start of line).
4988- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4989 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4990 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4991 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4992 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4993 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4994 cmdwin does now already.
4995 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4996 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4997 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4998 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4999 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5000 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5001 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5002 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5003 Problems:
5004 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5005 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5006 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5007 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5008 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5009 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5010 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5011 character in first column?
5012 - Implementation ideas:
5013 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5014 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5015 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5016 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5017 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5018 Mode.
5019
5020
5021Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01005022- Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary.
5023 (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1350)
5024- Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the
5025 matching command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050268 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
50278 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5028 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
50298 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5030 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050318 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5032 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050337 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5034 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005035- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5036- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5037 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050388 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5039 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
50407 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5041 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5042- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5043 identifiers (Webb).
50448 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5045 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
50467 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5047 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5048- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5049 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5050- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5051 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5052 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005053
5054
5055Command line history:
5056- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5057 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5058 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005059 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005060- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5061 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5062
5063
5064Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000050659 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5066 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5067 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050688 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5069 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5070 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5071 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5072 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050738 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5074 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5075 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050767 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5077 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005078- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050797 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5080 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5081- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5082 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5083 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5084 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5085 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5086 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5087- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5088 Normal mode.
5089- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5090 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5091 are used.
5092- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5093- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5094- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5095
5096
5097'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010050989 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5099 char * veryLongName =
5100 "very long string"
5101 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051028 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051038 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5104 long_type foo =
5105 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051068 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5107 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005108 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051098 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5110 func(
5111 new String[] {
5112 "asdf",
5113 "asdf"
5114 }
5115 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051168 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5117 (Chow Loong Jin)
5118 namespace {
5119 int
5120 func(int arg) {
5121 }
5122 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051236 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5124 func( arg1
5125 , arg2
5126 , arg3
5127 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000051287 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005129 func(
5130 int x) // indent like "(4"
5131 {
5132 if (a
5133 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051349 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5135 if (a)
5136 {
5137 if (b)
5138 {
5139 // {
5140 }
5141 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005142 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5143 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5144 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005145- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005146 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
51477 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5148- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5149 line).
5150- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5151- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5152 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005153- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5154 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5155- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5156 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5157- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5158- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5159 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
51608 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5161 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5162 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5163- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5164- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5165 lines start with "\item".
5166- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5167 /* here is a comment that
5168 is just autoindented, and
5169 nothing else */
5170- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
51717 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5172 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5173 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005174 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005175
5176
5177Java:
51788 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5179 Odendahl?
51808 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5181 "[i" commands and friends.
5182- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5183 (Jason)
5184- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5185 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5186
5187
5188'comments':
51898 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5190 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5191 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5192 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005193 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5194 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051957 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5196 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
51977 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
51986 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5199 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5200 regexp is used.
52018 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5202 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5203
5204
5205Virtual edit:
52068 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052077 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5208
5209
5210Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052118 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052128 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052138 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005214 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020052158 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005216 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005217 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5218 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020052198 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052208 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5221 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052228 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5223 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5224 the end of the line or before a ".".
52257 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5226 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
52277 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5228 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052296 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
52305 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5231 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5232 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5233 cursor is on.
5234
5235
5236Select mode:
52378 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5238 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
52397 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005240 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052417 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5242 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5243 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5244 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5245 normal_cmd().
5246 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5247 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5248
5249
5250Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020052518 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5252 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005253- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5254 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5255 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005256- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5257 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5258 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052598 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005260 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005261 where needed.
52627 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5263 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
52647 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5265 of each selected line.
52668 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
52678 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5268 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5269 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
52708 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5271 Ben Godfrey)
52727 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5273 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
52747 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5275 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052767 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005277 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005278 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
52798 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5280 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
52817 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5282 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5283 option!
52847 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5285 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5286 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5287 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5288 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5289 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5290 without changing the column.
52916 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052927 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5293 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052946 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5295 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
52966 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052976 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005298 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005299 or other special character.
53006 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5301
5302
5303More advanced repeating commands:
5304- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005305- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005306- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005307 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5308 "y." will repeat last yank.
5309 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5310 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5311 and/or pick an older command.
5312- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5313
5314
5315Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053168 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5317 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5318 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
53198 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
53207 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5321 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053228 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5323 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
53248 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000053257 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053268 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5327 entering search strings.
53288 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5329 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5330 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053318 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5332 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010053337 Add <0x8f> (hex), <0o33> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053347 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5335 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053366 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5337 abbreviations are to be used.
5338- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5339 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5340 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005341- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5342 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5343 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5344 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5345 Or implicit:
5346 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005347- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5348 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5349 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005350- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5351 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5352- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5353 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
53546 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5355 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5356 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5357 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005358- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5359 non-replace Insert mode?
5360- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005361- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5362- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5363 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5364- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005365 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005366- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5367 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5368- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5369- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5370 ":freekeys".
5371- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5372
5373
5374Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005375- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5376 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5377- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5378 folds when going to another line.
5379 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5380- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5381 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005382- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5383 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5384 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005385- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5386 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5387 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5388 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020053899 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5390 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005391
5392
5393Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010053949 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000053958 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005396 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005397 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005398 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005399 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010054009 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5401 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010054028 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5403 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000054048 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5405 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5406 Perl does it this way:
5407 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5408 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5409 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5410 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054118 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5412 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5413 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000054147 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5415 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000054168 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5417 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054187 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005419 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5420 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5421 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054227 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005423 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054247 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5425 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054268 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5427 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
54288 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5429 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020054307 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005431 example.
54328 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5433 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5434- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5435 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5436 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5437 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054388 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5439 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5440 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
54417 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5442 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000054437 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5444 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054458 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5446 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054478 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5448 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054498 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5450 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5451 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5452 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005453- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5454 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005455- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5456 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5457- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5458 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5459 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5460 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054618 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5462 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005463- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5464 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054658 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5466 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5467 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005468- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5469 i ignore case
5470 I use case
5471 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5472 v use Vi regexp syntax
5473 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5474 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5475 Perl uses these too:
5476 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5477 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5478 o compile only once (Perl only)
5479 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5480 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5481 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5482 following command.
5483 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5484- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5485 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5486 for search string)?
54877 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5488 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5489- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5490 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5491- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5492 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5493- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5494- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005495 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005496 a for the next file in the argument list
5497 f for file in the buffer list
5498 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005499 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5500 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005501 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5502 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5503- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055047 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005505 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055067 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5507 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5508 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5509 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
55106 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5511 effects.
55127 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5513 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5514 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000055157 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005516 Also ":dselect".
5517
5518
5519Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055209 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5521 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5522 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055239 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5524 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020055258 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5526 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055278 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5528 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5529 timestamp?
5530 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5531 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005532- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5533 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005534- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5535 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5536 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
55378 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5538 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5539 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5540 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
55418 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5542 only remember the lines that really changed.
55437 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5544 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5545 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5546 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005547- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5548 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5549- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5550 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5551- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5552 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5553 [-99].
5554- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5555- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005556- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5557 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5558
5559
5560Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055617 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5562 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5563 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5564 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020055658 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005566 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
55678 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5568 inode too.
55697 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005570 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5571 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055727 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5573 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5574- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5575 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5576- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5577 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
55787 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5579 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
55807 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5581 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
55828 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055837 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5584 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010055858 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5586 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5587 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005588
5589
5590Swap (.swp) files:
55918 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5592 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5593 there are short file name problems.
55948 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5595 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
55968 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
55978 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005598 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005599 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5600 file the same as the actual file?
5601 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056027 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5603 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
56047 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005605 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005606 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5607 enough room.
56087 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5609 or /var/preserve.
5610- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5611 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5612- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005613 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005614- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5615 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5616 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5617 cached list of which line is where.
5618
5619
5620Viminfo:
56217 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5622 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5623 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056248 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5625 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5626 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056278 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5628 name. (Schild)
56298 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
56308 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056318 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056328 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5633 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5634 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5635 this?
56367 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
56377 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5638 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
56396 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5640 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5641 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5642- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5643 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5644
5645
5646Modelines:
56478 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5648 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5649 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005650- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5651 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5652 'shiftwidth'.
5653- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5654 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005655- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5656 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5657 modeline setting.
5658- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5659 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5660- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5661 .cpp files.
5662- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5663 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02005664- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005665 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5666
5667
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005668Sessions:
56698 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5670 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
56717 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5672 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056738 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5674 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056758 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5676 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5677 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000056787 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5679 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000056807 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005681
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005682
5683Options:
56847 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5685 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056868 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5687 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5688 also be supported.
56898 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5690 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5691 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
56927 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005693
5694
5695External commands:
56968 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5697 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
56984 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5699 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5700 -f).
57014 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57024 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5703 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57044 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5705
5706
5707Multiple Windows:
57087 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57098 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5710 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57117 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5712 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5713 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057147 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5715 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057167 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5717 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057186 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5719 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005720 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005721 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57227 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5723 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5724 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5725 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5726- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5727 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5728 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5729 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5730
5731
5732Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057338 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057348 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5735 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057368 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 +000057378 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5738 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
57398 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5740 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5741 the mark was set.
57427 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5743 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5744 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5745 ":browse marks"?
57466 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057477 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5748 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
57497 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5750 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
57517 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5752 command).
57537 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5754 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5755 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5756 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
57575 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5758 mappings.
57596 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5760 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5761 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5762
5763
5764Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020057657 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005766 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005767- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5768 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000057698 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057707 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5771 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5772
5773
5774Writing files:
5775- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5776 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5777 shortname conversion.
57788 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
57798 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5780 file.
57818 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5782 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5783 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057846 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5785 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
57866 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5787 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
57886 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5789 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057908 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005791 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
57927 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5793 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010057947 When editing a file, check that it has been changed outside of Vim more
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005795 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5796 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5797 waiting for a character to be typed).
57988 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5799 line of the window, like "[time]".
5800 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5801 Automatic and/or with a command.
5802
5803
5804Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058058 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5806 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058078 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005808 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5809- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5810- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58118 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5812 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005813- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005814 :s///N substitutes N times.
5815- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5816 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5817 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58187 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5819 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5820 last line column 5.
58215 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5822 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5823 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5824 (Stanislav Sitar)
5825
5826
5827Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058288 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58297 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58308 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5831 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5832 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005833- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5834- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5835 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5836- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5837- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5838
5839
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005840Argument list:
58416 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5842 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5843 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
58446 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5845
5846
5847Registers:
58488 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058498 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5850 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5851 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005852- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5853 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5854- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5855 leader when line wraps?
5856- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5857 line in the range.
5858- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5859 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
58608 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5861 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005862
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005863
5864Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058658 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000058668 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058677 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
58687 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5869
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005870Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000058717 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5872 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5873 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5874 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5875 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5876 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5877 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005878 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000058797 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5880 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000058817 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5882 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058838 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5884 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000058857 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5886 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5887 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005888- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005889 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010058907 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5891 window as a buffer-tab selection.
58928 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058937 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5894 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
58958 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5896 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058976 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058988 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5899 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5900 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5901 in this Vim.
59028 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005903 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059048 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5905 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5906 have it apply to the following command.
59078 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5908 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5909 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5910 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059117 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5912 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059137 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5914 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5915 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5916 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059176 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59188 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59199 Support ACLs on more systems.
59207 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5921 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059227 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5923 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5924 (truncated to fit in the space).
59257 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59268 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59278 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5928 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059297 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005930 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59317 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5932 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059337 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059347 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
59357 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059368 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
59378 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5938 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5939 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5940 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
59418 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059428 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059438 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5944 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5945 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5946 does something like this. (Shah)
59477 Use growarray for replace stack.
59487 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5949 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
59503 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059517 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5952 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010059537 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5954 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005955- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5956- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5957- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5958- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
59597 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5960 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5961- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5962 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005963- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005964- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5965 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5966- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5967 call "play newbeep.au").
5968- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5969 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5970 (Bhatt).
5971- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5972 blockwise registers).
5973- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5974 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5975- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5976 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5977 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5978 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005979- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059807 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5981 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5982- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5983 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5984 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5985 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5986 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059878 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5988 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059898 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5990 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5991 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5992 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5993 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5994- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02005995- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059967 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5997 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5998- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5999 not in column 1.
60006 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6001 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60027 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6003- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006004- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006005 :redir #> bufname
6006 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006007- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6008 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006009- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6010 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6011 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60126 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6013 console? (Klaus Hast)
6014- Add :delcr command:
6015 *:delcr*
6016 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6017 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6018 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6019 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6020 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006021 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006022- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6023- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6024 characters from 'isprint'.
6025- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6026- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6027 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6028- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6029 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6030 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6031- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6032- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6033 Nvi).
6034- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6035 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
60367 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6037- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6038 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
60396 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6040- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6041 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6042 macro).
6043- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006044- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6045 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6046- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
60478 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006048- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6049- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6050- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6051 if it is not the first or last window.
6052- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6053 there is one) instead of the file itself.
60547 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6055 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6056 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6057- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6058- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006059 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006060 many percent down the windows).
6061- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6062 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6063 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006064 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006065- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6066 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6067- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6068 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6069- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6070- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6071- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6072 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060738 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6074 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6075 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6076 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6077 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006078- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6079 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6080- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006081 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6082- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006083 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6084 (Webb).
6085- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006086 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006087- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6088 hex codes like 0xff).
6089- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6090 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6091 the last TYPED command.
6092- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6093- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6094- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6095 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006096- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060978 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6098 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6099 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006100- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006101 trailing '.'.
6102- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6103 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6104 find_file_in_path().
6105- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6106 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6107- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6108- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6109 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6110- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006111 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006112- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6113 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6114 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006115- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6116- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6117- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6118 to the minimal size.
6119- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6120- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6121- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6122- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6123- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006124- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6125 entered)?
6126- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6127 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006128- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006129- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6130- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6131- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6132- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6133- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6134 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006135- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061368 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6137 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6138 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6139 or in octal.
61407 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6141 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006142- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006143 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6144- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6145- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6146 insert line command).
6147- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6148- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6149- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6150- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6151- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6152 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006153- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006154 yet.
6155- Implement 'redraw' option.
6156- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6157 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061587 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6159 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006160 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6161 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061628 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6163 do it.
6164- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6165- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6166 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6167- Add text justification option.
6168- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6169- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6170 off".
6171- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6172- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6173- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006174 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006175- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006176- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006177- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6178 commands.
6179- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6180- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6181- :table command (Webb)
6182- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006183- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6184- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6185- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6186- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6187- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6188 (Demirel).
6189- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6190- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6191 for use in macro's and the like.
6192- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006193 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006194- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006195 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006196- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006197 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006198 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6199- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6200 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006201- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006202 mkopttab to make option table?
6203- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6204 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6205- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6206 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006207- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006208 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6209- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6210 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006211- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062128 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6213 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6214 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6215 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6216 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062178 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6218 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6219 (Netherton)
62206 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6221 space after "(", for example.
62225 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6223 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6224 (Servatius Brandt)
6225
6226
6227From Elvis:
6228- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6229- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006230- Search patterns:
6231 \@ match word under cursor.
6232 but do:
6233 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6234 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
62358 ":window" command:
6236 :win + next window (up)
6237 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6238 :win - previous window (down)
6239 :win -- idem, wrapping
6240 :win nr to window number "nr"
6241 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
62427 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6243 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6244
6245
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006246From xvi:
6247- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6248- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6249
6250
6251From vile:
6252- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6253- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6254 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6255
6256
6257Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006258- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6259 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006260 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006261 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6262 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006263- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6264 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6265- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6266 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6267 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6268 current layout mirrored.
6269- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6270- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6271 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6272- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6273- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6274 font in each top-level window.
6275- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6276- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6277- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6278- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6279 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006280- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6281 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6282- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6283 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
62844 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6285 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6286 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6287 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006288 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006289 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6290 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6291- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6292 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6293 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6294
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006295vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006296vim: set fo+=n :