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Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2014 Jun 25
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*
8
9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
13
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
25
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|.
29
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010037Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020038- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
39 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010040- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010041- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
42 2013 Dec 11)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010043- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin Szamotulski
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010044 Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +010045- Bug when using \>. (Ramel, 2014 Feb 2) (Aaron Bohannon, 2014 Feb 13)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020046- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
47- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
48 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +020049
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020050Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
51work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +020052
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +020053Completion for :buf does not use 'wildignorecase'. (Akshay H, 2014 May 31)
54
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010055":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
56directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
57
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +010058Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +010059
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020060Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020061
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +020062Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
63inconsistant with the documentation.
64
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +020065MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
66(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
67
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020068Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
69
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +020070Patch to translate 0xce in K_NUL 3. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 June 6)
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +020071Update by Nobuhiro Takasaki, Jun 19.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +020072
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +010073Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010074
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +020075"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
76Jun 8)
77
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +010078Syntax file for gnuplot. Existing one is very old. (Andrew Rasmussen, 2014
79Feb 24)
80
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +010081Issue 174: Detect Mason files.
82
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +010083No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
84
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010085Phpcomplete.vim update. (Complex, 2014 Jan 15)
86
87PHP syntax is extremely slow. (Anhad Jai Singh, 2014 Jan 19)
88
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +020089Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
900x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
91New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
92compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
93
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +020094Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
95Also fixes wrong result from executable().
96Update from Ken Takata, 2014 Jan 10. Newer 2014 Apr 3.
97
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020098Win32: use 64 bit stat() if possible. (Ken Takata, 2014 May 12)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +020099More tests May 14. Update May 29.
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200100
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200101The garbage collector may use too much stack. Make set_ref_in_item()
102iterative instead of recursive. Test program by Marc Weber (2013 Dec 10)
103Patch by Ben Fritz, 2014 Jun 22.
104
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200105Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
106right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
107it's height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200108
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100109Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
110What for systems that don't have unsetenv()?
111
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100112This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
113 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
114This neither: (ZyX)
115 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
116
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200117'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
118Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
119from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100120
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200121Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
1222014 Jun 8)
123
124When 'clipboard' is "unnamed", :g/pat/d is very slow. Only set the clipboard
125after the last delete? (Praful, 2014 May 28)
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200126Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 18.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200127
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100128Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
129Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
130Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
131User view:
132- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Be able to look into
133 the files before deciding to install.
134- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
135- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
136 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
137 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
138 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
139 on vim.org.
140- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
141 there. Can manually update when really needed.
142- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
143- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
144- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
145- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
146Implementation:
147- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
148 plugin separate.
149- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
150 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
151 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
152- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
153 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
154- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
155 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
156 installing.
157Out of scope:
158- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
159- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
160 useful).
161
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200162Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
163normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100164
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200165When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
166menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
167
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200168Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
169(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
170
171":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
172various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100173
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200174Patch to add sortuniq(). (Cade Forester, 2014 Mar 19)
175Or add uniq() instead? Patch by lcd47, but it has problems.
176
177Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
17830)
179
180Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name.
181Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31.
182Or should we add a more general mechanism, like lambda functions?
183
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200184VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
185instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
186
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100187Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200188Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100189
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200190Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", whould be ":edit". Complete to the matching
191command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100192
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100193Patch to add v:completed_item. (Shougo Matsu, 2013 Nov 29).
194
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100195Patch to make test 100 work on MS-Windows. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Dec 12)
196
197Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
198
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100199Perl: support for Activestate perl 5.18: Issue 170.
200
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100201Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
202highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100203
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100204Patch to fix temp directories for Windows, so that it works without tweaking.
205Issue 28.
206
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200207Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100208
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100209Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
210possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12)
211
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100212Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
213
214Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200215
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +0100216Some quickfix messages appear twice. (Gary Johnson, 2014 Feb 16)
217Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Feb 17.
218
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200219Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
220
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100221Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
222
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200223With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa,
2242013 Sep 5)
225
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100226Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100227Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100228
229Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
2303. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
231
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200232/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
233
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002347 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
235 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
236 "lucida_console:h8").
237Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
238
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200239:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
240
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200241Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100242names.
243(ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28; Update 2013 Dec 15, 2014 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100244Also fixes Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200245
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200246Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200247With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200248
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100249Patch to fix that on suckless Terminal mousewheel up does not work.
250(Ralph Eastwood, 2013 Nov 25)
251
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200252Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
253
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200254Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
255
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100256When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
257(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
258
259Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
260Dec 13.
261
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200262Fold can't be opened after ":move". (Ein Brown)
263Patch from Christian Brabandt doesn't fix it completely.
264
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100265Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
266buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
267
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100268Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering.
269(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe)
270
271":sign-jump" uses first window in buffer instead of current window.
272Patch by James McCoy, 2013 Nov 22.
273
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200274GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
275(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
276
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100277Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
278registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
279
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200280Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
281
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200282The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
283(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
284Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
285
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200286The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
287- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
288- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
289
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100290Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
291Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
292reliably?
293
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200294Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
295That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
296Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
29717)
298Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200299Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200300
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100301Problem caused by patch 7.3.638: window->open does not update window
302correctly. Issue 91.
303
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100304Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
305(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
306
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100307Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
308(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
309
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02003108 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
311 defined.
312Issue 28.
313
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200314Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
3152013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100316
317Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
318
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200319Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
3205)
321
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200322Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
323carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
324
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200325Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
326highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
327
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +0100328Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200329
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200330Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +0200331May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
332May 19: with local variables.
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200333May 28: with options
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200334
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200335Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020033628) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200337
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200338Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
339optional. (2013 Jul 12)
340
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200341Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
342
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200343Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist()
344functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21)
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200345Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200346Second one. Update May 22.
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200347
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100348Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
349
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +0200350MS-Windows: Patch to make tests copy files to avoid changing the fileformat of
351the files under version control. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Jul 5)
352
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100353Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100354
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200355- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
356 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
357Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200358
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200359Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200360
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100361'ff' is wrong for one-line file without EOL. (Issue 77)
362
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200363Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
364Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
365
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200366In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
367process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
368a reboot.
369
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100370Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100371Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
372Ben Fritz: problem with 'selection' set to "exclusive".
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100373Updated to current Vim, not quite right yet. (Ben Fritz, 2014 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100374
375Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the
376cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20)
377
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100378patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
379
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100380Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183.
381I can't reproduce it.
382
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100383Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
384not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100385
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200386Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
387Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
388
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200389Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
390Or use expand('<sid>')?
391
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100392Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
393
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100394Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100395
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200396Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no
397signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22.
398
399Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
400
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200401Patch to use directX to draw text on Windows. Adds the 'renderoptions'
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200402option. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Jan 25, update 2013 Apr 3, May 14)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200403Fixes this problem:
4048 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
405 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
406 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100407
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200408Patch to add 'completeselect' option. Specifies how to select a candidate in
409insert completion. (Shougo, 2013 May 29)
410Update to add to existing 'completeopt'. 2013 May 30
411
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100412Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
413
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100414b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
4157)
416
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +0200417Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
418compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
419
420Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
421Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
422vim.bindeval().
423
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200424Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
4252012 Aug 4)
426
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100427Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
428(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
429
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100430Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
431But use Gnome instead of GTK?
432
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200433Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
434Saito, 2013 Apr 24)
435
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100436Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
437Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
438Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200439
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200440Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
441
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200442Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
443loading all files.
444
445Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
446line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
447after starting up?
448
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200449Patch to add ":ldo" and ":cdo", execute commands over quickfix list and
450location list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 Jun 2)
451
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +02004528 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
453 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
454
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200455MS-Windows resizing problems:
456- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
457 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
458- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
459 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
460 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100461
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200462'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200463
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200464Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200465of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
466
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200467Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
468
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100469Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200470Also question if examples are correct.
471
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200472The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
473Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
474But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200475
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200476Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
477Aug 16)
478
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100479When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
480is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
481
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100482URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100483- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100484- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
485 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
486
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200487Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +0200488New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200489
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100490When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
491for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
492Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100493
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200494Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
495
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200496Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
49724)
498
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200499Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
500
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100501Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
502
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200503Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
504Apr 18)
505
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200506Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
507And one for gui_x11.txt.
508
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100509":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
510finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
511Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
512
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200513Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
514
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100515Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
516
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200517Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
518they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
519
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100520Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
521
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100522Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
523Nov 20)
524
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200525Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200526Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200527
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100528`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100529(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
530
531Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
532
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100533BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
534Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
535
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100536Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
537Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
538
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100539Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
540
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100541Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
542Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
543
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200544Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
545
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200546On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
5472012 Jun 19)
548
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200549'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
550'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
551Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200552Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200553
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200554With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
555(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
556need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
557
558Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
559only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
56021, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
561
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200562'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
563highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
564
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100565Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
566New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
567
568Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
569Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
570
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100571Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
572Jan 19)
573
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200574Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, discussion 2013 Jul 4)
575Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different meaning already.
576Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200577
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200578"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100579Oct 26)
580
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200581Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
582
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200583With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
584register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200585
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200586Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
587
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200588When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
589(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
590
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100591Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
592Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
593
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200594Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
595doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
596Jun 17)
597
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100598When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
599then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
600from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
601
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200602Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
603":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
60415)
605
606Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
607
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200608BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
609cleared. See test64.
610
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200611Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
612
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200613Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200614effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200615Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
616
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200617Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200618
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200619On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
62064 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
621right type.
622
623string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
624(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
625
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200626Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
627
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200628When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
629(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200630When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
631following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
632(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200633
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200634When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
635doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
636
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100637Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
638
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02006397 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
640Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
641
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200642maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
643mapping, how to restore the script ID?
644
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200645Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
646(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
647
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200648When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
649indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
650the help file.
651
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200652After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
653Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
654
655Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
656
657"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
658
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200659Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
660May 24) Update May 26.
661
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100662Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
663
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200664Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200665
666Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
6672010 Dec 18)
668
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200669With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
670number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
671Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
672
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200673Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
674Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
675
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02006768 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
677Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
678
6798 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
680 after typing something.
681Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
682function that resets did_cursorhold.
683Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
684
6857 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
686Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
687Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
688
6899 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
690 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
691Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
692
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200693Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
694Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
695
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200696In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
697or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
698sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
699
700GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
701doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
702
703GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
704
705Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
706Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
707
708Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
709
7107.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
711there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
712do?
713
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200714Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
71522)
716
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100717New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
718- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200719- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100720 the maximum repeat for * and +?
721
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100722"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
7232011 Feb 27)
724
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200725Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
726^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
727
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100728'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
729way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
730
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100731When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
732exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
7339) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
734
735g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
736the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
737
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100738Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
739crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
740
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200741Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
742number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
743
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200744Regexp engine performance:
745- Profiling:
746 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
747 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
748 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
749 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
750 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
751 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
752- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
753- Performance tests:
754 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
755 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
756 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
757 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
758 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
759 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
760 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
761 'hlsearch'.
762 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
763 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
764 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
765 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
766
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200767Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
768names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
769Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
770the system encoding (usually utf-8).
771
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100772Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010077326, update 2013 Dec 14)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100774
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200775Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
776Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
777
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200778'beval' option should be global-local.
779
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100780Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200781
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200782setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200783
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02007847 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
785 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
786 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
787
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200788With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
7892010 Oct 24)
790
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100791Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
792Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
793
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200794Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
795
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200796When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
797Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
798
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200799":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
800
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200801'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
802
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100803C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
804checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
805Issue 46.
806
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200807Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
808
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100809Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
810gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
811
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200812":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
813accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
814
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200815Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
816setwinvar().
817
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100818Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
819
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100820When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
821(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
822
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200823Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200824(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200825
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200826When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
827instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
828
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200829Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
830Winckler, 2011 May 11)
831Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100832
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100833Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
834back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
835
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100836Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200837Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
838
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100839CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
840the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
841FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
842
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200843Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
844Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
845
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200846Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
847Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
848
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100849I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
850Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
851an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100852
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200853Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
854
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100855Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
856non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100857
858iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
859Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
860or replace with a character and continue?
861
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100862Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
863Requires configure check for localtime().
864Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
865
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100866Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
867Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
868
869Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
870
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100871Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
872Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
873path.
874
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100875Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200876Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100877
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200878'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
879
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200880":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
881like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
882
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100883Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200884Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
885
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100886Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
8872010 Nov 5)
888
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100889Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
890Jan 7)
891
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100892Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
893Only with "vim -u NONE".
894
895Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
896
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100897With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
898entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
899Feb 12)
900
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200901Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
902characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
903
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100904Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
905
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200906Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
907 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
908
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200909Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
910
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200911When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
912Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
913
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100914When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
915not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
916string value.
917
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100918Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
919
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100920For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
921line argument -noregister.
922
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100923When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
924missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
925
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200926When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
927doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100928
929Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
930(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
931Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
932There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
933Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
934
935":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
936highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
937to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
938
939Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
940Probably needs a bit of work.
941
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100942List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100943Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
944
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200945Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
946
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100947Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
948
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200949Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
950Sep 1)
951
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100952Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
953
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +0200954Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
955on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
956
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100957Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
9582009 Jul 18)
959
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100960Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
961Added test, updates, June 23.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200962Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100963
964Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
965window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
966Needs more work.
967
968Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
969
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100970When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
971few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
972
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100973'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100974(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
975
976Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
977J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
978
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200979When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
980for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
981
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200982Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
983
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200984Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
985
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100986When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
987
988":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
989because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
990ex_docmd.c.
991
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200992Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100993Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
994
995string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
996for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
997
998Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
999
1000'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
100120)
1002
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001003Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
10042009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1005
1006Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1007
1008Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1009SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1010
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001011When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1012indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1013(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1014
1015Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1016are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1017Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1018Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1019that doesn't have a window.
1020
1021When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1022doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1023
1024getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1025displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1026
1027":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1028
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001029There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1030was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1031perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1032
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001033Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1034
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001035Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
1036file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
1037system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
1038
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001039Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1040command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1041
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001042Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1043does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1044
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001045opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1046height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001047very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001048
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001049Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1050(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1051
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001052Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001053(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1054
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001055Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1056char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1057
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001058Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1059Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1060
1061This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
1062
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001063A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001064
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001065Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1066messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1067es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
10682009 Jan 26)
1069
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001070When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001071in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1072Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1073
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001074Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1075a modeline.
1076
1077Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1078Sergey Khorev)
1079
1080Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1081part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001082
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001083netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
1084number to be below last visible line.
1085
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001086After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1087correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1088
1089Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1090(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1091
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001092shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001093'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1094Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1095unix-like shell?
1096
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001097Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1098register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1099(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1100
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001101Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1102Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1103
1104Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1105make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1106
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001107When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1108still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1109
1110"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1111(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1112
1113Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1114
1115"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
1116
1117Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1118that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1119ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1120Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1121
1122Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001123Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001124
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001125MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1126doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1127probably causes this.
1128
1129'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020011302009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001131
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001132Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +010011332013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12.
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001134
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001135Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1136 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1137 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1138(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1139
1140Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1141":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1142option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1143is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001144
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001145":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1146first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001147Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001148
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001149Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1150laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1151Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001152
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001153Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1154anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1155
1156On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1157doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1158Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1159Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1160
1161":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
1162
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001163When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1164'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1165fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1166the buffer to be unmodified.
1167Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1168another look at it.
1169
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001170c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1171(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1172
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001173You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1174error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1175Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1176at the other match for 0xBF.
1177
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001178When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1179argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1180
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001181Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1182backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1183
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001184When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1185line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1186
1187Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1188position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1189
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001190After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1191(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001192command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001193
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001194":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1195Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1196
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001197Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
1198Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
1199
1200When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1201either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1202put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1203
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001204Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1205Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1206Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1207Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1208(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1209
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001210Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1211
1212ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001213
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001214Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1215(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1216escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1217an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001218This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1219July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001220Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1221work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1222
1223When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
122431)
1225
1226Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1227work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1228Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001229
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001230Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
12312008 May 14)
1232
1233Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1234Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1235'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1236
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001237Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1238Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1239
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001240Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1241Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1242
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020012438 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1244 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1245 several).
1246 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1247 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1248 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1249Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1250
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001251Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
1252
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001253The utf class table is missing some entries:
1254 0x2212, minus sign
1255 0x2217, star
1256 0x2500, bar
1257 0x26ab, circle
1258
1259Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1260line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1261
1262GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1263Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1264
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001265Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1266try the Cocoa version.
1267
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001268Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1269changed or the window is resized.
1270
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001271GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1272the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1273
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001274Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1275Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001276
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001277Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
12781) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1279
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001280C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1281with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1282Try to reproduce at work.
1283
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001284Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1285Is there a way to list all the files first?
1286
1287When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1288result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
128916)
1290
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001291Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1292(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1293
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001294Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1295Await response to question to make the register writable.
1296
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001297src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
1298remark why.
1299
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001300Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
13011)
1302
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001303In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1304each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1305
1306try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1307
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001308try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1309
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001310":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1311Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1312
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001313Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1314
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001315Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1316Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1317
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001318Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1319Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1320Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001321
1322C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1323(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1324
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001325Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
1326":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001327Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001328
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001329When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1330and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1331
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001332Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1333 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1334
1335New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1336
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001337":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1338a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1339
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001340'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1341Likonen, March 19)
1342
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001343Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1344other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1345
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001346The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1347appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1348matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1349
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001350When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1351character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1352'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1353(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1354
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001355Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1356Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001357
1358More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1359
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001360Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1361http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1362
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001363Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1364back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1365Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001366
1367Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1368No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1369
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001370Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1371terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001372
1373Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1374
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001375Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1376but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1377that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001378
1379When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1380
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001381Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1382Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1383
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001384Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1385popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1386size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1387This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1388
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001389Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1390a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1391isn't right?
1392
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001393When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1394it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1395
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001396Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1397then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1398files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001399Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1400indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1401":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
1402in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
1403quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
1404Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001405
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001406When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1407parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1408neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1409particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1410Jun 3)
1411However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1412the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001413
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001414A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1415Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1416
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001417Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1418Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1419
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001420Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1421switch list is noticed:
1422 switch (i)
1423 {
1424 case 1:
1425 foobar:
1426 }
1427
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001428Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1429
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001430Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1431with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1432go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1433moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1434
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001435Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001436Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010014378 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1438 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1439 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001440Alternative: MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001441
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001442Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
144364-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1444
1445Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1446Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1447Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1448argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1449(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1450
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001451Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1452(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1453
1454Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1455makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1456.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1457 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1458
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001459Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
14602007 Feb 8)
1461
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001462Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1463set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001464
1465Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1466
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001467Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1468
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001469Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1470Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1471New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1472patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1473
1474Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1475Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1476
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001477Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1478
1479Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
14802007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001481Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001482
1483Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001484label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1485
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001486Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1487with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1488Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001489
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001490Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1491pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001492Patches from Ken Takata might help (2014 Apr 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001493
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001494Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1495
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001496Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1497Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1498only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1499
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001500Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1501Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001502Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001503properly?
1504
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001505Add a few features to xxd. (Vadim Vygonets, 2013 Nov 11)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001506Patches: 2013 Nov 19
15071: Add -e: little endian hexdump
15082: Add -o: add offset to displayed position
15093: Change displayed file position width to 8 chars
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001510
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001511Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
15122007 Jun 21)
1513
1514When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1515Jun 18)
1516
1517If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1518
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001519Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1520windows. (Adam George)
1521
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001522F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1523modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1524K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001525
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001526UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1527to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1528
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001529In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1530the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1531
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001532C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1533
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001534":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1535
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001536When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001537error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001538
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001539Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1540use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1541
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001542Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1543if_ruby.c.
1544
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001545":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1546
1547The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1548it in keep_msg?
1549
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001550Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001551error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001552name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1553
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001554Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1555longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001556
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001557Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1558Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1559Also for ":w" without a file name.
1560The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001561
1562"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1563Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1564
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001565VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1566directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1567(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1568
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001569VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1570
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001571input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1572name?
1573
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001574Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1575
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001576When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1577(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1578Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1579will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1580
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001581gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1582This also fails with --remote.
1583
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001584When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
15852008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1586all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1587
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001588aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1589
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001590When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1591(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1592
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001593Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1594the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1595
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001596GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1597
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001598Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1599superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1600
1601Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1602character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1603
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001604Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1605Jun 5)
1606
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001607Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
16082008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1609Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1610
1611In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1612but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1613Jul 22)
1614
1615There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1616
1617Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1618":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1619somehow? Or use a new function.
1620
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001621Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1622
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001623Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1624moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1625that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1626
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001627The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1628
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001629When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001630cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1631the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1632
1633Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1634has been created.
1635
1636Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1637shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1638fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1639background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1640A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001641
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001642These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1643 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1644 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1645 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1646
1647Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1648partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1649
1650In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1651buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1652reload it then?
1653
1654New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1655previous version.
1656
1657For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1658
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001659Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1660only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1661
1662Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1663tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1664doesn't contain other directories.
1665
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001666Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
1667Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
1668
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001669Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1670 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1671 set background=dark
1672This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1673color is, not reset it.
1674
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001675Linux distributions:
1676- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1677 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1678 xfree-xterm".
1679- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1680
1681Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1682start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1683show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1684middle?
1685
1686When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001687(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001688connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1689dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1690
1691Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1692
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001693When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1694current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1695the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1696
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001697When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1698Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1699
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001700Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1701 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1702 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1703 - getting colors in xterm
1704 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1705
1706Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1707Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1708
1709Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1710
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001711A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1712Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1713
1714Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1715Dara, 2006 June 21)
1716
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001717Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1718number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1719
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001720After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1721the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1722
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001723Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001724
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001725Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1726copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1727error and stop using the connection to the server.
1728
1729Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1730Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1731
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001732Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010017332008 Sep 29)
1734
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001735In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1736check the result of has("patch13").
1737
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001738Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1739restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1740
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001741Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1742and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1743
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001744Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1745put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1746
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001747Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1748resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1749
1750In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1751can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1752
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001753GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1754maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1755doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001756Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1757visible.
1758
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001759When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1760differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001761
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001762The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1763be only one.
1764
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001765"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1766script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1767
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001768It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1769the function name before resolving it to a number?
1770 let d = {}
1771 fun! d.foo()
1772 echo "here"
1773 endfun
1774 call d.foo(9)
1775
1776Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1777only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001778Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1779used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1780
1781Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1782output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1783Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1784
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001785Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001786"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1787name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1788Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001789
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001790printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
1791perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
1792
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001793Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1794(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1795
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001796Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1797as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1798
1799Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1800Jan 1)
1801
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001802Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
180323)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001804
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001805":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1806tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1807Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001808
1809xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1810buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1811Xterm 224 supports it!
1812
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001813When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1814text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1815latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1816
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001817Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1818
1819Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1820no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1821
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001822In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1823VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
18242007 Oct 16)
1825
1826TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1827Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1828
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001829Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001830
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001831When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1832typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1833Sep 3, 11)
1834
1835When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1836respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1837the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1838what happens for the GUI.
1839
1840X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1841pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1842clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1843Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1844Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1845clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1846
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001847":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1848this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1849
1850When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1851Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1852restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1853
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001854Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
18552010 Jun 30)
1856
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001857
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +02001858At next release:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001859- Build a huge version by default.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001860- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
1861 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001862
1863
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001864More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001865- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1866 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001867- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1868- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1869 21)
1870- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1871 patch May 10)
1872- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1873 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1874- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1875 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1876- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1877- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1878- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1879 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1880 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001881- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001882- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1883 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1884- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1885 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1886- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1887 21)
1888- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1889 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1890- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1891 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001892- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1893 Sep 13)
1894- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001895 Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001896- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1897 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1898 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1899 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1900 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001901- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001902
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001903Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000019049 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1905 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1906 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1907 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1908 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1909 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1910 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1911 (Alan Schmitt)
1912 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001913 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1914 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000019159 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001916 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000019178 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019188 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001919 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019207 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1921 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1922 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019238 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001924 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020019257 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001926 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1927- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1928 for multi-byte characters.
1929- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1930- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1931 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1932 been given values.
1933 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
19348 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001935 with an ESC sequence.
1936 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1937 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1938 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019397 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1940 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1941- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1942 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1943 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
19448 Add functions:
1945 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1946 Update 2004 Sep 10
1947 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1948 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001949 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001950 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001951 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1952 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001953 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1954 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1955 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1956 (2003 May 13)
1957 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1958 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001959 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1960 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001961 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1962 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1963 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019647 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1965 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1966- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1967 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
19687 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1969 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000019708 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1971 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019727 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
19738 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1974 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
19757 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1976 Kotchan has a patch for it)
19778 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1978 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1979 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
19807 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1981- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1982 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1983 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001984- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1985 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1986- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1987
1988
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001989Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001990- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1991 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019928 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1993 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1994 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1995 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1996 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1997 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019988 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1999 make Vim exit.
20007 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2001 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2002 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
20038 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2004 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2005 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
20066 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2007 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2008 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
20098 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2010 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2011 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2012 names in one buffer???
2013 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2014 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2015 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
20167 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2017 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2018 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002019 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2020 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020217 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2022 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
20237 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
20247 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
20257 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
2026 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
20277 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2028 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2029 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2030 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
20317 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
20327 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
20337 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2034 to the match with the tag? Option?
20357 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
20367 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2037 (Sayre).
20387 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2039 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020407 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2041 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2042 match. Nvi can do it too.
20437 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2044 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2045 line 1\ line 2\\
2046 line 2\ line 3\\
2047 . line4/
20486 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2049 the way the shell is started?
20506 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2051 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2052
2053
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002054GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000020559 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020568 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2057 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2058 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000020598 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2060 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2061 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020629 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2063 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2064 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2065 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002066- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2067 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2068 blocked for now.
2069
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002070
2071Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002072- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2073 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020748 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
2075 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
20768 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2077 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2078 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
20798 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2080 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020816 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2082 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000020838 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2084 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2085 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020867 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2087 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2088 to use an opaque background in most places?
20898 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
2090 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
2091 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020927 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2093 2004 May 9)
20948 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2095 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2096 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2097 MS-Windows 98?
2098 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2099 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2100 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2101 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021028 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2103 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2104 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2105 doesn't work properly.
21068 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2107 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2108 appears in the right position. (Webb)
21099 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2110 button doesn't give popup menu.
2111 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2112 selection.
2113 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2114 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2115 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
21168 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2117 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2118 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2119 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
21208 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2121 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2122 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021237 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2124 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2125 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
21267 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2127 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002128 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021297 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2130 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021316 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
21328 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2133 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2134 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
21358 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2136 know which keyboard is being used?
21377 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2138 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2139 area (Koloseike).
21408 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2141 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2142 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2143 the font name).
2144
2145
2146Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000021476 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2148 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2149 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2150 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2151 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021529 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2153 required and it's missing?
21548 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2155 wrong.
21569 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2157 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000021589 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002159 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2160 flag.
21618 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2162 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2163 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
21648 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
21656 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2166 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2167 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2168 the tooltips work though...
21697 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2170 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
21718 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2172 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2173 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2174
2175
2176Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010021779 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2178 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021799 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2180 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2181 through files.
21827 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2183 read long file names. (Schroeder)
21844 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2185 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2186 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2187 problem during a refresh.
21885 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2189 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2190 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2191 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2192 colors as it should.
2193 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2194 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2195
2196
2197Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002198- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021997 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2200 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022018 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2202 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2203 (Phillipps)
2204
2205
2206GUI:
22079 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2208 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
22099 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002210 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002211 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
22129 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2213 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
22148 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2215 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
22168 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2217 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2218 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
22198 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2220 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2221 of where it is processing the output.
2222 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
22238 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2224 doesn't work.
22258 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000022268 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2227 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2228 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020022298 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022308 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2231 browse().
22328 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2233 use that code? Or use console dialog.
22348 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2235 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000022367 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2237 - regexp on/off
2238 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2239 when all buffers/directory is used:
2240 - filter for file name
2241 when directory is used:
2242 - subdirectory on/off
2243 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022448 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2245 to avoid problems.
22468 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2247 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2248 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
22498 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2250 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2251 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
22528 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2253 up. Set erase character somehow?
22548 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2255 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2256 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2257 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
22588 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
22597 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2260 visible.
22617 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2262 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
22637 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2264 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
22658 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2266 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
22678 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2268 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2269 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2270 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2271- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
22724 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2273 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2274 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2275
2276
2277MSDOS/DJGPP:
22789 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
2279 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
2280 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
22818 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
2282 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
22839 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002284 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
2285 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022869 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
2287 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
2288 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
2289 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
22909 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
2291 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
2292 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
2293 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
2294 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
2295 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
2296 Make this work like in Win32 console.
2297 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
2298 key code. Use a translation table?
22999 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
2300 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
23018 Use DJGPP 2.03.
23028 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2303 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
23048 setlocale() is bogus.
23058 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2306 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2307 Windows 95 system!
23088 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000023097 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002310 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
23117 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2312 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2313 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
23148 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2315 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
23167 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2317 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2318 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2319 "[New file]".
23207 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2321 that is supported?
23228 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
23238 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2324 Briscoe)
2325
2326
2327MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
23288 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2329 gen_expand_wildcards().
23308 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2331 Wagner.
23328 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
23338 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2334 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000023358 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2336 a good fallback, thus use:
2337 $HOME
2338 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2339 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2340 $USERPROFILE
2341 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2342 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2343 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2344 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023458 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2346 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
23478 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2348 Should work like in the GUI version.
23498 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2350 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
23518 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2352 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
23538 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2354 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2355 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023568 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2357 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2358 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2359
2360
2361Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020023628 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002363 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2364 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
23658 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2366 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2367
2368
2369Win32 console:
23709 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2371 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2372 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2373 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2374 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2375 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2376 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2377 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2378 and the file is not saved.
2379 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2380 long name.
23818 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2382 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
23837 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2384 besides the console.
23858 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
23869 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2387 <C-S-i>?
23889 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2389 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
23908 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2391 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023927 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2393 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2394 exiting.
2395
2396
2397Amiga:
23988 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2399 sequences.
24009 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2401 backslashes in result.
24028 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2403 all options, using white space separation.
2404
2405
2406Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002407- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024087 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2409 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2410 (Jack)
2411 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000024128 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2413 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024148 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
24158 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
24169 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2417 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024189 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002419
2420
2421"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002422- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2423 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002424- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2425 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002426- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2427 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2428 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2429 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2430 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2431 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2432 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000024339 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2434 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000024359 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002436 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2437 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024388 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2439 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2440 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002441 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024427 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2443 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
24448 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2445 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2446 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024477 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2448 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002449- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2450 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024518 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2452 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2453 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2454 using the horizontal scrollbar.
24557 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2456 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2457 invocations belong together.
24588 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2459 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
24608 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2461 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2462 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2463 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2464 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000024658 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2466 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2467 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024688 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2469 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024707 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2471 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2472 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2473 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024747 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2475 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2476 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
24777 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2478 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2479 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
24807 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2481 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024827 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2483 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024849 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2485 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2486 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2487 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2488 script can be called.
24898 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2490 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2491 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024928 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2493 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000024948 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002495 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2496 configurable?
24978 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
24989 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2499 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2500 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025018 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2502 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025038 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2504 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025058 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2506 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025079 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2508 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2509 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025107 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025118 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2512 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2513 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000025148 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2515 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002516 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2517 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025188 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2519 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
25209 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2521 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2522 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002523 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025247 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2525 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025267 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2527 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2528 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2529 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025308 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002531 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2532 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2533 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2534 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002535 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2536 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002537 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002538 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002539 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2540 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2541 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2542 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2543 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
25448 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2545 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
25469 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2547 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2548 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025498 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2550 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
25518 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2552 in lines that don't extend into the block?
25538 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2554 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2555 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
25568 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2557 'linebreak'.
25588 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2559 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2560 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025619 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2562 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2563 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2564 'magic' in history. (Margo)
25659 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2566 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
25679 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2568 isn't updated).
25699 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
25709 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2571 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2572 cause another redraw, etc.
25738 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2574 must escape special characters in the pattern.
25758 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2576 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2577 ":w!!" for that.
2578 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2579 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002580 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025817 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2582 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2583 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2584 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2585 clipboard)
25867 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2587 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2588 Waggoner)
25898 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2590 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2591 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000025926 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2593 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2594 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025958 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2596 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
25978 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2598 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2599 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000026008 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026018 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2602 (e.g., ":w").
26038 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2604 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
26058 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2606 for ">>".
26078 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2608 script in do_cmdline().
26098 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2610 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2611 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2612 changes.
26138 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2614 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
26158 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2616 check for file marks. This can be slow.
26177 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2618 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2619 needed.
2620 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
26218 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2622 to skip catch_signals()?
26239 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2624 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2625 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2626 text?
26278 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2628 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
26298 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2630 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
26319 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2632 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2633 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2634 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2635 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
26367 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2637 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2638 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2639 in the list?
26408 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2641 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2642 instead of on button down.
26438 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
26449 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2645 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002646 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2647 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026488 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2649 character is typed.
26508 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2651 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
26528 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2653 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
26548 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2655 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2656 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2657 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2658 cygwin bash.
26597 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2660 Remember flags for backreferences.
26617 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2662 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
26637 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2664 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
26658 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2666 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
26677 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2668 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026697 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2670 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2671 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
26727 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2673 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
26748 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2675 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2676 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
26777 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2678 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002679
2680
2681I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
26829 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2683 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2684 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002685
2686
2687Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002688- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2689 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2690 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002691- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2692 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2693 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2694 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2695 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2696 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002697 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002698- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2699 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002700 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002701 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2702 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2703 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002704- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2705 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2706 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2707 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2708 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2709- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2710 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2711 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2712- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2713 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002714- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002715- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2716 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2717 character gets the highlighting.
2718- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2719 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2720- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2721 (Jennings)
2722- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2723- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2724 errors. How do we get the rest?
2725- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002726- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002727 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2728- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2729 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2730 first?
2731- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2732 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2733- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2734 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2735 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2736- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2737 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2738 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2739 (Benzinger).
2740- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2741 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2742 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2743- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2744 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2745- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2746 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2747- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2748 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2749 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2750 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2751 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2752 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2753- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2754 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2755 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002756- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2757 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2758 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002759- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2760 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2761 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2762- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2763 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2764- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2765 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002766- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2767 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2768- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2769 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2770 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2771 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2772 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2773- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2774 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2775 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2776- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2777 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2778 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002779- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2780 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 +00002781- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2782 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2783 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2784 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2785 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2786- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2787 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2788
2789--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2790 *extensions-improvements*
2791
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002792Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2793- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2794 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2795 calling a function.
2796 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2797 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002798- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2799 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2800- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2801 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2802 http://clewn.sf.net.
2803 And the idevim plugin/script.
2804 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2805 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2806 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2807 other window.
2808 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2809 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2810 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2811 in terminal mode.
2812- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2813 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2814 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2815 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2816 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2817 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002818 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002819- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2820 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2821 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002822- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2823 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002824- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2825 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2826 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028278 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2828 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2829 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2830 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002831- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2832 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002833
2834
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002835Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028368 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2837 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000028388 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2839 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000028408 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2841 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028428 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028437 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
28449 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2845 - change to cursor position and curswant
2846 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2847 - how it works for folded lines
2848 - how it works with multi-byte characters
28499 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2850 work too.
28518 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2852 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2853 text.
28548 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
28557 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2856 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
28577 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2858 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002859 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002860- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2861
2862
2863Help:
2864- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2865 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2866- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2867 to the other matches.
2868- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2869- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2870- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2871 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2872 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2873 default contents.
2874- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2875 height for the help window (and other windows).
2876- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2877- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2878- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2879
2880
2881User Friendlier:
28828 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2883 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2884 Briscoe)
28858 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
28868 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2887 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2888 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
28898 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2890 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2891- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2892 ":mkplugin <file>"?
28938 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2894 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2895 'runtimepath'.
2896 " Vim plugin
2897 <main plugin code>
2898 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2899 <plugin docs>
2900- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
29019 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2902 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2903 item?).
2904 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029058 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
29067 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000029077 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2908 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2909 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000029108 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2911 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2912 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2913 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002914
2915
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002916Tab pages:
29179 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029187 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2919 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029208 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000029218 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029227 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029237 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002924 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029257 Add local variables for each tab page?
29268 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2927 tab pages.
29287 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029297 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2930 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002931
2932
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002933Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002934- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2935 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2936- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2937 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2938 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2939- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2940 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002941- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2942 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2943 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002944- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2945 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2946 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002947- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2948 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002949- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002950 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2951 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000029528 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2953 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
29548 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2955 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
29568 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2957 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002958 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002959 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2960 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2961 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2962 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002963- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2964 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002965- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002966- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2967 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002968- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002969 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002970- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002971 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002972- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2973 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002974- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2975 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2976- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002977 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002978 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2979 in the affix file separately.
2980 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002981 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002982 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2983 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2984 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2985- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2986 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2987 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2988 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2989 Alternative:
2990 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2991 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2992 affix which is required.
2993- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002994 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002995- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2996 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2997 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002998- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2999 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003000- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3001 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3002- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030038 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3004 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3005 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3006 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003007- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3008 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3009 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3010 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030118 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3012 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030138 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
30148 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3015 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030167 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
30178 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3018 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3019 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3020 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003021
3022
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003023Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030249 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
3025 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02003026 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030278 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
3028 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
3029 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003030 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
3031 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030327 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
3033 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
3034 location.
3035
3036
3037Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003038 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3039 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030408 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3041 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000030428 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030439 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
3044 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030458 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3046 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3047 user aware of this?
30488 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3049 commands skip over a closed fold.
30508 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
30518 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030527 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003053- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3054 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3055 missing line goes unnoticed.
3056 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003057- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3058 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3059 smoother?
3060- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3061 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003062- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3063 file can contain:
3064 args version.c main.c
3065 edit version.c
3066 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003067- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003068- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3069 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003070- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3071 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003072- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3073 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003074- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000030758 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003076 searches.
3077
3078
3079Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003080- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3081 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3082 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3083 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030849 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3085 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3086 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3087 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020030889 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3089 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3090 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030918 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3092 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3093 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3094 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3095 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3096 item.
30978 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003098 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3099 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031008 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3101 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003102 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003103 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031048 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3105 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000031068 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3107 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3108 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031097 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3110 so that the user can fix the problem.
31118 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3112 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031139 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
31148 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031158 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
31168 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000031177 Searching and composing characters:
3118 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003119 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3120 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031218 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
31228 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
31238 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3124 characters.
31258 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
31268 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3127 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
31287 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3129 'display' option to specify this.
31307 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3131 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3132- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3133 fontselector somehow.
3134- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3135 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3136- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3137 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3138- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3139 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3140 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3141 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3142 if a font exists?
3143- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003144 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003145- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3146 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
31477 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
3148 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003149- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3150 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3151 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3152 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003153- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3154 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3155 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3156- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3157 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3158 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3159 But it's very complicated...
3160
3161
3162Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000031637 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003164- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3165- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3166 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003167- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3168 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003169- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3170- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3171 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003172- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3173 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003174- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3175 units as for the margins.
3176- Support right-to-left text?
31778 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3178 color.
3179
3180
3181Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031828 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3183 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
31848 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3185 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
31868 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3187 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000031887 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3189 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031908 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3191 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3192 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031937 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3194 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3195 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031968 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
31979 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3198 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031997 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3200 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000032017 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3202 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032038 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3204 change this for each release.
32058 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3206 pattern, but not in the body.
32078 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3208 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3209 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032108 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
32118 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
3212 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
3213 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
3214 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003215 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3216 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032178 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3218 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
32198 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3220 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003221 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032228 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3223 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3224 used.
32258 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3226 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
32278 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3228 re-insert the [] if possible.
32298 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3230 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000032318 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3232 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3233 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3234 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3235 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032368 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3237 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
32388 Support for deleting syntax items:
3239 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3240 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3241 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
32428 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3243 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3244 a '<'. (Fleiner)
32457 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3246 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3247 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
32487 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3249 detected.
32508 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003251 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032528 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3253 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032548 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
32558 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
32567 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3257 ":mkvimrc".
32588 Improve c.vim:
3259 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3260 "c_strict_ansi".
3261 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
32628 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3263 current line while in Insert mode.
32648 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3265 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
32668 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3267 display position.
32688 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3269 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3270 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
32718 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3272 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3273 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032748 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3275 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3276 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000032777 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3278 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3279 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3280 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3281 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032827 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3283 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3284 E.g. for this html:
3285 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032867 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
32877 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3288 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032898 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
32908 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032917 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3292 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3293 completion?
32948 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3295 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
32967 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3297 select one of the sets.
32988 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3299 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3300 2, etc.
33018 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3302 highlighting (for "." command).
33038 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3304 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
33058 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
33067 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3307 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
33086 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3309 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3310- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3311 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3312- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003313- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3314 (for comment blocks).
3315- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3316 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3317 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3318 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3319 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3320 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3321 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3322 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3323 (Campbell)
3324 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3325 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
33267 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3327 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
33287 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3329 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3330 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
33317 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3332 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3333 messages. And external commands?
33348 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3335 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
33367 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3337 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3338
3339
3340Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033418 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3342 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003343 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033447 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3345 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3346 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033478 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3348 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003349- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3350 2006 Dec 11.
3351- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020033528 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3353 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3354 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3355 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3356 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3357 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000033587 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3359 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033608 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
33618 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3362 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3363 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3364 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3365 nested packages?
3366 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3367 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3368 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033697 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3370 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3371 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3372 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3373 autocommand.
3374 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3375 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3376 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3377 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033787 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3379 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033806 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3381 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033828 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003383 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3384 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3385 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3386 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3387 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3388 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3389 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003390 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3391 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3392 3 2002
3393 Only add this when also implemented for
3394 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3395 be used.
3396 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003397 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3398 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3399 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3400 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3401 File.Open..." argument.
3402 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3403 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3404 with properties instead.
3405 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3406 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3407 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003408 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003409 crypt() encrypt string
3410 decrypt() decrypt string
3411 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3412 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003413 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003414 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003415 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003416 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003417 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003418 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3419 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003420 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3421 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003422 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003423 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3424 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003425 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3426 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3427 to allow the library to execute a command or
3428 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034297 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3430 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
34318 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3432 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034338 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3434 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034358 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034367 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3437 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
34386 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000034398 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3440 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034418 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3442 option or environment variable.
34438 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034448 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003445 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000034467 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3447 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034488 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3449 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
34508 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
34518 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3452 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3453 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3454 charwise({expr}).
34557 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3456 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3457 buffer for this?
3458 result = scratch(string, command)
3459 result = apply(string, command)
3460 result = execute(string, command)
3461 "command" would use <> notation.
3462 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
34637 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003464
3465
3466Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000034676 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3468 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3469 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3470 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3471 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3472 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3473 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003474
3475
3476Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000034777 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3478 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020034797 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3480 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3481 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3482 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000034838 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3484 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3485 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3486 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003487 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034888 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3489 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3490 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034918 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
34929 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
34938 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
34947 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3495 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
34968 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3497 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3498 when starting up in a color terminal.
34998 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3500 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035018 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3502 function be improved?
35038 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3504 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3505 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3506 this be improved?
35078 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3508 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000035097 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3510 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035117 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3512 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
35137 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3514 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020035157 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035167 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3517 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3518 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3519 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3520 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3521 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3522 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035238 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3524 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3525 using strcmp() too often?
35267 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3527 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3528 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3529 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3530 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3531 the two blocks to the memfile block.
35327 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3533 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3534 with an argument that can be messed with.
3535 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3536 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
35377 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3538- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
35398 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3540 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3541- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3542 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3543- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3544- Do profiling on:
3545 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3546 - 1000ii<Esc>
3547 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3548 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3549 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3550 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3551 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3552 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003553 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035547 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3555 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3556 changed).
3557 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3558 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3559- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3560- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3561 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3562- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3563 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3564 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3565- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3566 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3567- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3568- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3569 cursor is right of the screen.
35708 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3571 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3572
3573
3574Code size:
35758 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3576- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3577 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
35788 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
35798 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3580 it.
35817 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3582 left out.
35838 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3584 can be removed.
35858 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3586
3587
3588Messages:
35898 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3590 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
35918 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3592 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
35938 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3594 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003595- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3596 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3597- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035988 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3599 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036009 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3601 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3602 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3603 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3604 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036058 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3606 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
36078 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3608 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3609 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3610 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3611 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3612 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003613- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003614 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036158 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3616 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3617 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3618 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3619 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3620 error messages, printing text, etc.
36218 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3622 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3623 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3624
3625
3626Screen updating:
36277 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3628 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3629 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3630- screen_line():
3631 - insert/delete character stuff.
3632 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3633- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3634 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3635- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3636 waiting for a character.
36378 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3638 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3639 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
36407 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003641
3642
3643Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020036448 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036456 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3646- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3647 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3648 windows.
36497 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3650 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3651 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3652- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3653 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3654 (Goldfarb)
3655- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3656 bound windows.
3657- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3658 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003659- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003660- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3661 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3662 of lines but not with a single line).
3663
3664
3665Autoconf:
36668 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
36678 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3668 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3669- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3670 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3671- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3672- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3673- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3674
3675
3676Perl interface:
36778 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036787 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
36797 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
36806 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3681
3682
3683Shared libraries:
36846 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3685 :libload internal-name libname
3686 :libunload internal-name
3687 :liblist
3688 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3689 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3690 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
36916 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3692
3693
3694Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000036959 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3696 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3697 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3698 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3699 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037008 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3701 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3702 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003703 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003704 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000037057 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3706 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3707 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037088 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
37098 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3710 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037117 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3712 window for each tag.
37137 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
37147 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3715 bottom" search message.
37167 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3717 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3718 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003719- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3720- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003721- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3722 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3723 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037247 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3725 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3726 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3727 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
37287 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3729 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3730 :tagargs clear
3731 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3732 matching).
37337 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3734 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3735 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3736 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
37377 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3738 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
37397 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3740 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3741 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003742
3743
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003744Win32 GUI:
37458 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3746 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037477 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3748 (Mike McCollister)
37498 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3750 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3751 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3752 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3753 common part of the path.
37548 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
37558 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3756 gettext and menus work.
37578 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3758 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003759 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003760 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
37618 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3762 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
37638 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3764 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
37657 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3766 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
37677 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
37687 <Esc> should close a dialog.
37697 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3770 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3771 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3772 prompts.
37737 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3774 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3775 the file added into an already running Vim.
37767 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3777 functions to find the window title.
3778
3779
3780GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020037818 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003782- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3783 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
37847 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
37858 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
37866 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
37878 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3788 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
37899 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
37907 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
37918 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3792 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
37938 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3794 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3795 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
37968 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3797 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
37988 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3799 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3800 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3801 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038027 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
38038 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3804 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000038057 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3806 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3807 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038088 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
38098 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003810 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038118 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
38128 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
38138 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3814 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3815 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
38167 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3817 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3818 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
38197 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3820 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
38217 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3822 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3823 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3824 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
38257 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3826 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
38277 Should support multi-column menus.
3828- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3829 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3830- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
38318 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
38326 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3833 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
38347 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
38357 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3836 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3837 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
38387 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
38398 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3840 name can be chosen free.
38417 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3842 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
38436 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3844 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3845 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3846 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3847 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3848 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3849 things.
38507 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3851 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038527 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003853 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003854- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3855 where it was started from?
38567 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3857
3858
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003859Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020038609 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3861 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003862- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038638 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3864 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3865 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3866 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
38678 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3868 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000038697 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3870 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3871 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3872 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000038737 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000038748 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3875 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038768 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3877 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3878 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000038797 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3880 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3881 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038828 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3883 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3884 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038857 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3886 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000038878 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3888 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038898 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038906 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3891 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000038927 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038937 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003894 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3895 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3896 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038975 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3898 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3899 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
39007 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3901 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3902 file.
39038 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3904 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3905 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003906- Add events to autocommands:
3907 Error - When an error happens
3908 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003909 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003910 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3911 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003912 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003913 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003914 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3915 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003916 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003917 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003918 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003919 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3920 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3921 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3922 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003923 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003924 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3925 the char.
3926 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3927 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3928 file from CVS).
3929 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3930 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3931 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3932 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3933 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3934 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003935 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3936 changes.
3937 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3938 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003939- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003940 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003941 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003942 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3943 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3944 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3945 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3946 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3947
3948
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003949Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003950- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3951 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003952- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3953 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3954 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3955 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3956 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003957- Ideas from others:
3958 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3959 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3960 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3961 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3962 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3963 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3964 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3965 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3966 Uses Perl for C++.
3967 Uses ctags to find the info:
3968 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3969 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3970 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3971 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3972 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3973 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003974 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003975 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3976- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3977
3978
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003979Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003980- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000039817 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3982 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000039837 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3984 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3985 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039868 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3987 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
39889 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3989 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3990 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039918 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3992 - ignore/match case
3993 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039948 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3995 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3996 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3997 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3998 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3999 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040008 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000040017 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4002 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040038 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4004 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4005 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4006 Should work for C++ and Java.
4007 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
40087 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
40097 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4010 instead of words.
40118 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
40128 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4013 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
40148 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4015 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004016- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4017 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004018- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4019 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4020 wildcards in the file name)?
4021- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4022- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4023- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4024 be in another file).
4025- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4026- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4027- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4028 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4029- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4030- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4031- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004032- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4033
4034
4035Command line editing:
40367 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4037 line.
40388 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4039 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4040 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4041- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4042 lines wraps to start of line).
4043- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4044 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4045 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4046 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4047 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4048 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4049 cmdwin does now already.
4050 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4051 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4052 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4053 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4054 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4055 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4056 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4057 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4058 Problems:
4059 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4060 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4061 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4062 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4063 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4064 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4065 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4066 character in first column?
4067 - Implementation ideas:
4068 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4069 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4070 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4071 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4072 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4073 Mode.
4074
4075
4076Command line completion:
40778 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
40788 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4079 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
40808 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4081 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040828 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4083 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040847 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4085 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004086- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4087- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4088 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040898 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4090 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
40917 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4092 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4093- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4094 identifiers (Webb).
40958 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4096 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
40977 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4098 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4099- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4100 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4101- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4102 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4103 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004104
4105
4106Command line history:
4107- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4108 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4109 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4110 completely resulted from one mapping.
4111- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4112 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4113
4114
4115Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000041169 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4117 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4118 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041198 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4120 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4121 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4122 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4123 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041248 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4125 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4126 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041277 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4128 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004129- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020041309 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041317 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4132 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4133- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4134 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4135 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4136 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4137 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4138 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4139- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4140 Normal mode.
4141- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4142 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4143 are used.
4144- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4145- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4146- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4147
4148
4149'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010041509 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4151 char * veryLongName =
4152 "very long string"
4153 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041548 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041558 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4156 long_type foo =
4157 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041588 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4159 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004160 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041618 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4162 func(
4163 new String[] {
4164 "asdf",
4165 "asdf"
4166 }
4167 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041688 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4169 (Chow Loong Jin)
4170 namespace {
4171 int
4172 func(int arg) {
4173 }
4174 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041756 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4176 func( arg1
4177 , arg2
4178 , arg3
4179 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000041807 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004181 func(
4182 int x) // indent like "(4"
4183 {
4184 if (a
4185 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041869 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4187 if (a)
4188 {
4189 if (b)
4190 {
4191 // {
4192 }
4193 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004194 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4195 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4196 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004197- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004198 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
41997 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4200- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4201 line).
4202- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4203- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4204 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004205- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4206 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4207- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4208 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4209- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4210- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4211 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
42128 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4213 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4214 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4215- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4216- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4217 lines start with "\item".
4218- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4219 /* here is a comment that
4220 is just autoindented, and
4221 nothing else */
4222- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
42237 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4224 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4225 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004226 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004227
4228
4229Java:
42308 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4231 Odendahl?
42328 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4233 "[i" commands and friends.
4234- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4235 (Jason)
4236- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4237 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4238
4239
4240'comments':
42418 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4242 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4243 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4244 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004245 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4246 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042477 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4248 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
42497 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
42506 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4251 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4252 regexp is used.
42538 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4254 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4255
4256
4257Virtual edit:
42588 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042597 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4260
4261
4262Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042638 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042648 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000042658 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004266 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000042678 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4268 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004269 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4270 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000042718 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042727 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4273 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042748 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4275 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042768 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4277 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4278 the end of the line or before a ".".
42797 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4280 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
42817 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4282 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042836 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
42845 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4285 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4286 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4287 cursor is on.
4288
4289
4290Select mode:
42918 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4292 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
42937 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004294 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042957 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4296 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4297 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4298 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4299 normal_cmd().
4300 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4301 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4302
4303
4304Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020043058 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4306 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004307- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4308 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4309 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004310- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4311 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4312 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043138 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004314 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004315 where needed.
43167 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4317 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
43187 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4319 of each selected line.
43208 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
43218 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4322 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4323 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
43248 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4325 Ben Godfrey)
43267 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4327 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
43287 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4329 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
43307 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4331 Young is working on this)
43327 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004333 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004334 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
43358 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4336 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
43377 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4338 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4339 option!
43407 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4341 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4342 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4343 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4344 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4345 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4346 without changing the column.
43476 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043487 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4349 current buffer.
43507 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
43516 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4352 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
43536 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043546 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004355 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004356 or other special character.
43576 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4358
4359
4360More advanced repeating commands:
4361- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000043627 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004363 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004364- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004365- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004366 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4367 "y." will repeat last yank.
4368 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4369 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4370 and/or pick an older command.
4371- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4372
4373
4374Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043758 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4376 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4377 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
43788 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
43797 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4380 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043818 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4382 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
43838 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000043847 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043858 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4386 entering search strings.
43878 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4388 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4389 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043908 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4391 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043928 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4393 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4394 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
43957 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043967 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4397 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043986 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4399 abbreviations are to be used.
4400- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4401 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4402 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004403- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4404 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4405 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4406 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4407 Or implicit:
4408 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004409- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4410 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4411 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004412- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4413 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4414- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4415 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
44166 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4417 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4418 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4419 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004420- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4421 non-replace Insert mode?
4422- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004423- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4424- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4425 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4426- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004427 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004428- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4429 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4430- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4431- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4432 ":freekeys".
4433- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4434
4435
4436Incsearch:
4437- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4438- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4439 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4440 up every time.
4441- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4442 folds when going to another line.
4443- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4444 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4445 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4446 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4447- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4448 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4449
4450
4451Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010044529 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000044538 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004454 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004455 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004456 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004457 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010044589 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4459 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010044608 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4461 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000044628 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4463 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4464 Perl does it this way:
4465 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4466 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4467 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4468 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044698 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4470 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4471 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010044728 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4473 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4474 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000044757 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4476 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000044778 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4478 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000044797 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004480 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4481 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4482 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
44837 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4484 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000044857 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004486 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044877 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4488 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044898 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4490 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
44918 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4492 line.
44937 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4494 example.
44958 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4496 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4497- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4498 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4499 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4500 Alternative: use matchit.vim
45018 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
45028 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4503 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4504 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
45057 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4506 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000045077 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4508 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045098 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4510 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045118 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4512 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045138 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4514 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4515 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4516 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004517- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4518 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004519- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4520 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4521- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4522 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4523 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4524 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045258 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4526 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004527- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4528 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045298 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4530 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4531 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004532- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4533 i ignore case
4534 I use case
4535 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4536 v use Vi regexp syntax
4537 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4538 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4539 Perl uses these too:
4540 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4541 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4542 o compile only once (Perl only)
4543 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4544 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4545 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4546 following command.
4547 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4548- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4549 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4550 for search string)?
45517 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4552 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4553- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4554 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4555- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4556 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4557- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4558- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004559 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004560 a for the next file in the argument list
4561 f for file in the buffer list
4562 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004563 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4564 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004565 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4566 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4567- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045687 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004569 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045707 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4571 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4572 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4573 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
45746 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4575 effects.
45767 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4577 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4578 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000045797 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004580 Also ":dselect".
4581
4582
4583Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010045849 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4585 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
4586 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045879 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4588 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020045898 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4590 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4591 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
45928 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4593 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045948 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4595 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4596 timestamp?
4597 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4598 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045998 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4600 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4601 was changed outside of Vim.
4602 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4603 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004604 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4605 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004606- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4607 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004608- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4609 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4610 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
46118 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4612 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4613 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4614 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
46158 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4616 only remember the lines that really changed.
46177 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4618 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4619 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4620 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004621- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4622 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4623- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4624 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4625- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4626 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4627 [-99].
4628- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4629- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004630- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4631 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4632
4633
4634Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046357 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4636 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4637 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4638 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
46398 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4640 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
46418 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4642 inode too.
46437 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004644 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4645 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046467 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4647 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4648- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4649 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4650- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4651 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
46527 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4653 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
46547 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4655 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
46568 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000046578 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004658 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
46597 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4660 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010046618 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4662 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4663 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004664
4665
4666Swap (.swp) files:
46678 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4668 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4669 there are short file name problems.
46708 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4671 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
46728 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
46738 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004674 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004675 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4676 file the same as the actual file?
4677 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046787 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4679 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
46807 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004681 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004682 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4683 enough room.
46847 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4685 or /var/preserve.
4686- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4687 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4688- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4689 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4690- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4691 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4692 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4693 cached list of which line is where.
4694
4695
4696Viminfo:
46977 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4698 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4699 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000047008 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4701 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4702 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047038 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4704 name. (Schild)
47058 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
47068 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047078 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047088 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4709 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4710 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4711 this?
47127 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
47137 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4714 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
47156 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4716 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4717 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4718- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4719 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4720
4721
4722Modelines:
47238 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4724 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4725 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004726- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4727 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4728 'shiftwidth'.
4729- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4730 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004731- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4732 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4733 modeline setting.
4734- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4735 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4736- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4737 .cpp files.
4738- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4739 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4740- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4741 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4742
4743
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004744Sessions:
47458 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4746 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
47477 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4748 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047498 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4750 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047518 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4752 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4753 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000047547 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4755 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000047567 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004757
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004758
4759Options:
47607 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4761 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047628 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4763 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4764 also be supported.
47658 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4766 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4767 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
47687 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
47697 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4770 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01004771 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004772
4773
4774External commands:
47758 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4776 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
47774 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4778 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4779 -f).
47804 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
47814 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4782 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
47834 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4784
4785
4786Multiple Windows:
47877 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
47888 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4789 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
47907 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4791 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4792 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047937 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4794 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000047957 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4796 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047976 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4798 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004799 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004800 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
48017 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4802 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4803 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4804 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4805- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4806 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4807 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4808 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4809
4810
4811Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048128 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048138 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4814 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000048158 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 +000048168 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4817 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
48188 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4819 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4820 the mark was set.
48217 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4822 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4823 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4824 ":browse marks"?
48256 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048267 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4827 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
48287 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4829 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
48307 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4831 command).
48327 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4833 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4834 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4835 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
48365 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4837 mappings.
48386 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4839 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4840 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4841
4842
4843Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020048447 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004845 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004846- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4847 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000048488 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048497 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4850 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4851
4852
4853Writing files:
4854- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4855 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4856 shortname conversion.
48578 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
48588 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4859 file.
48608 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4861 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4862 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048636 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4864 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
48656 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4866 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
48676 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4868 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000048698 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004870 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
48717 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4872 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
48737 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4874 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4875 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4876 waiting for a character to be typed).
48778 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4878 line of the window, like "[time]".
4879 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4880 Automatic and/or with a command.
4881
4882
4883Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000048848 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4885 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000048868 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004887 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4888- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4889- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
48908 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4891 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004892- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004893 :s///N substitutes N times.
4894- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4895 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4896 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
48977 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4898 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4899 last line column 5.
49005 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4901 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4902 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4903 (Stanislav Sitar)
4904
4905
4906Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049078 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
49087 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
49098 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4910 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4911 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004912- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4913- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4914 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4915- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4916- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4917
4918
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004919Argument list:
49206 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4921 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4922 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
49236 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4924
4925
4926Registers:
49278 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
49288 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4929 around in windows.
49308 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4931 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4932 for every line.
49336 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4934 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4935 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4936- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4937 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4938- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4939 leader when line wraps?
4940- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4941 line in the range.
4942- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4943 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
49448 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4945 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004946
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004947
4948Debug mode:
49497 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
49508 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000049518 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049527 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004953 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4954 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4955 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049567 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
49577 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4958
4959
4960Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000049617 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4962 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4963 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4964 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4965 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4966 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4967 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004968 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000049697 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4970 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000049717 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4972 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049738 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4974 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049757 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4976 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4977 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004978- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004979 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049807 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4981 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049827 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4983 window as a buffer-tab selection.
49848 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049857 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4986 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4987 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004988 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4989 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049907 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4991 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
49928 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4993 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049946 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049958 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4996 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4997 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4998 in this Vim.
49998 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005000 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050018 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5002 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5003 have it apply to the following command.
50048 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5005 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5006 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5007 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050087 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5009 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050107 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5011 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5012 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5013 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050146 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
50158 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
50169 Support ACLs on more systems.
50177 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5018 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050197 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5020 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5021 (truncated to fit in the space).
50227 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
50238 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
50248 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5025 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000050267 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005027 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
50287 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5029 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050307 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050317 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
50327 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050338 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
50348 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5035 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5036 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5037 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
50388 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
50396 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
5040 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005041 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01005042 Patch to add async functionality. (Geoff Greer, 2013 Sep 1 and later)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050438 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050448 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5045 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5046 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5047 does something like this. (Shah)
50487 Use growarray for replace stack.
50497 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5050 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
50513 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050527 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5053 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010050547 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5055 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005056- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5057- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5058- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5059- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
50607 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5061 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5062- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5063 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005064- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005065- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5066 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5067- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5068 call "play newbeep.au").
5069- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5070 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5071 (Bhatt).
5072- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5073 blockwise registers).
5074- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5075 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5076- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5077 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5078 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5079 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005080- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050817 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5082 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5083- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5084 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5085 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5086 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5087 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050888 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5089 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050908 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5091 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5092 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5093 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5094 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5095- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005096- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050977 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5098 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5099- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5100 not in column 1.
51016 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5102 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
51037 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5104- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005105- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005106 :redir #> bufname
5107 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005108- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5109 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005110- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5111 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5112 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
51136 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5114 console? (Klaus Hast)
5115- Add :delcr command:
5116 *:delcr*
5117 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5118 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5119 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5120 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5121 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5122 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5123- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5124- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5125 characters from 'isprint'.
5126- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5127- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5128 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5129- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5130 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5131 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5132- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5133- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5134 Nvi).
5135- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5136 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
51377 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5138- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5139 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
51406 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5141- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5142 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5143 macro).
5144- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005145- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5146 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5147- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
51488 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005149- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5150- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5151- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5152 if it is not the first or last window.
5153- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5154 there is one) instead of the file itself.
51557 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5156 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5157 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5158- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5159- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005160 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005161 many percent down the windows).
5162- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5163 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5164 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005165 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005166- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5167 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5168- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5169 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5170- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5171- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5172- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5173 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051748 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5175 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5176 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5177 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5178 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005179- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5180 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5181- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005182 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5183- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005184 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5185 (Webb).
5186- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005187 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005188- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5189 hex codes like 0xff).
5190- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5191 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5192 the last TYPED command.
5193- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5194- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5195- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5196 should also work?
5197- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
51988 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5199 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5200 name.
5201- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5202 trailing '.'.
5203- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5204 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5205 find_file_in_path().
5206- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5207 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5208- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5209- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5210 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5211- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005212 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005213- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5214 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5215 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005216- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5217- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5218- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5219 to the minimal size.
5220- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5221- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5222- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5223- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5224- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005225- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5226 entered)?
5227- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5228 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005229- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005230- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5231- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5232- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5233- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5234- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5235 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005236- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052378 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5238 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5239 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5240 or in octal.
52417 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5242 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005243- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005244 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5245- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5246- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5247 insert line command).
5248- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5249- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5250- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5251- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5252- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5253 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005254- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005255 yet.
5256- Implement 'redraw' option.
5257- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5258 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052597 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5260 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005261 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5262 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052638 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5264 do it.
5265- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5266- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5267 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5268- Add text justification option.
5269- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5270- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5271 off".
5272- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5273- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5274- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005275 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005276- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005277- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005278- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5279- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5280 commands.
5281- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5282- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5283- :table command (Webb)
5284- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005285- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5286- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5287- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5288- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5289- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5290 (Demirel).
5291- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5292- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5293 for use in macro's and the like.
5294- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005295 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005296- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005297 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005298- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005299 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005300 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5301- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5302 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005303- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005304 mkopttab to make option table?
5305- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5306 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5307- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5308 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005309- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005310 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5311- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5312 cursor?
5313- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5314- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
53155 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5316 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000053178 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5318 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5319 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5320 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5321 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053228 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5323 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5324 (Netherton)
53256 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5326 space after "(", for example.
53275 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5328 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5329 (Servatius Brandt)
5330
5331
5332From Elvis:
5333- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5334- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005335- Search patterns:
5336 \@ match word under cursor.
5337 but do:
5338 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5339 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
53408 ":window" command:
5341 :win + next window (up)
5342 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5343 :win - previous window (down)
5344 :win -- idem, wrapping
5345 :win nr to window number "nr"
5346 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
53477 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5348 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5349
5350
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005351From xvi:
5352- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5353- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5354
5355
5356From vile:
5357- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5358- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5359 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5360
5361
5362Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005363- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5364 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5365 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5366 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5367 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005368- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5369 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5370- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5371 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5372 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5373 current layout mirrored.
5374- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5375- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5376 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5377- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5378- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5379 font in each top-level window.
5380- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5381- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5382- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5383- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5384 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5385- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5386 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5387 mentioned in the tags file.
5388 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5389 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5390- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5391 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5392- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5393 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
53944 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5395 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5396 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5397 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005398 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005399 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5400 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5401- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5402 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5403 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5404
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005405When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5406empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005407
5408vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5409vim: set fo+=n :