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Bram Moolenaar2f058492017-11-30 20:27:52 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.0. Last change: 2017 Nov 29
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035 *known-bugs*
36-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
37
Bram Moolenaar2f058492017-11-30 20:27:52 +010038Motif testgui:
39From test_options.vim:
40Found errors in Test_set_values():
41Caught exception in Test_set_values(): Vim(set):E596: Invalid font(s): guifont=fixedsys @ /home/mool/vim/vim80/src/testdir/opt_test.vim, line 1153
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43WinBar: balloon shows up for next line
44
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020045No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
46No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
47
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020048Terminal emulator window:
49- Lots of stuff to implement, see src/terminal.c
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +020050- Improve debugger interface:
51 Include all debug features of Agide.
52 - Implement the right-click popup menu for the terminal. Can use the
53 completion popup menu code and mouse dragging.
54 Use it for "set breakpoint", "remove breakpoint", etc.
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +020055 - get ideas from http://clewn.sf.net
56 - Look into the idevim plugin/script.
57- Improve testing:
58 Make a screenshot of a terminal, store in a file.
59 Display a stored screenshot, display diff with another one.
60 Make a test that puts Vim in a specific state, make a screenshot and compare
61 with the expected screenshot. Set t_Co to 256.
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020062
63+channel:
Bram Moolenaar24a98a02017-09-27 22:23:55 +020064- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
65 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +010066- Try out background make plugin:
67 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +020068- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +020069- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
70 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +010071- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
72 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +020073- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +020074- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +010075- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
76 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +010077 minute. Option to set the droptime.
Bram Moolenaar82af8712016-06-04 20:20:29 +020078- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +010079- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +010080- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
81 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
82 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +010083- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
84 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +020085- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
Bram Moolenaar328da0d2016-03-04 22:22:32 +010086 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +010087 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +010088
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010089Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +010090- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
91 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
Bram Moolenaar24a98a02017-09-27 22:23:55 +020092- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
93 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +020094- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
95 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
96 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
97 LC_CTYPE
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010098- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
99 matches everywhere.
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100100- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
101 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100102- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200103- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
104 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100105- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100106- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
107 2013 Dec 11)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100108- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
109 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200110- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
111- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
112 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200113- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200114- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +0200115- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100116- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
117 2015 Feb 7)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200118- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
119 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
120 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
Bram Moolenaar979243b2015-06-26 19:35:49 +0200121 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
122 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100123- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
124- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100125- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100126- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
127 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
128 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
129 col and vcol when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +0100130- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
131 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100132- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
133 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200134 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
135 (2017 May 15, #1252)
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200136
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200137Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
138http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
139http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100140Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +0100141- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200142- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
143- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
144- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200145- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200146Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
147- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
148- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +0100149Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
150-> Make check for colorscheme that it's sane.
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100151- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200152
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100153Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
154- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
155- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
156- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
157- signed integer overflow in nfa_regatom() (#2251)
158- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
159
Bram Moolenaar2f058492017-11-30 20:27:52 +0100160patch for: fix SHIFT-Insert on Windows command prompt (Yasuhiro Matsumoto,
161#2381)
162
163Patch for profile log truncating halfway a character. (ichizok, 2017 Nov 28,
164#2385)
165
166WinBar: Maximizing window causes window size to be wrong. (Lifepillar, 2017
167Nov 29, #2356)
168
169CTRL-A does not work with empty line. (Alex, #2387)
170Patch by Hirohito Higashi, 2017 Nov 29.
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100171
172'hlsearch' shows empty matches, which means highlighting everything.
173Don't do that. For "foo\|" or "\v"
174Patch from Christian, 2017 Nov 14. Should still display "$" matches.
175
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200176When starting with --clean packages under "start" are not loaded. Make this
177work: :packadd START {name} similar to :runtime START name
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200178
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200179When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
180with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200181
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100182Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200183
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200184With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
185(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
186
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200187Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
188:drop (remote commands).
189
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100190"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
191directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
192Also see #1689.
193
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200194ml_get error when using a Python. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
Bram Moolenaar3ec574f2017-06-13 18:12:01 +0200195Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200196
Bram Moolenaar2f058492017-11-30 20:27:52 +0100197Patch to fix E806. (Dominique, 2017 Nov 22, #2368)
198Kazunobu Kuriyama: caused by XtSetLanguageProc().
199
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100200Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
201(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
202
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200203ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
204
205Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
206
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100207Patch to avoid clearing the intro message on Win32 console.
208(Ken Takata, 2017 Nov 14)
209
210Patch to copy buffer-local options before buffer leaves the window. (Bjorn
211Linse, 2017 Nov 14, #2336)
212
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100213When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
214redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200215
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100216Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
217Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
218
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100219Patch to fix cmdline abbreviation after '<,'>. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Nov
22013, on issue #2320)
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222Patch to add TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
223May 24) Update May 26.
Bram Moolenaar2f058492017-11-30 20:27:52 +0100224Now in patch by Lemonboy, #2333
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100225
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200226Default install on MS-Windows should source defaults.vim.
227Ask whether to use Windows or Vim key behavior?
228
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100229Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
230Nov 21)
231
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100232When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
233CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
234Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
235always nested.
236
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200237matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
238
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100239Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
240
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100241MS-Windows: buffer completetion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
242for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
243
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100244Patch to adjust to DPI setting for GTK. (Roel van de Kraats, 2017 Nov 20,
245#2357)
246
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200247Test runtime files.
248Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200249
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200250Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200251
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200252Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
253defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
254Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
255
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200256After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
25713, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200258
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200259Illegal memory access, requires ASAN to see. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jul 28)
260Still happens (2017 Jul 9)
261
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200262When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
263line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
264
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100265The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
266
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100267Patch for 24 bit color support in MS-Windows console, using vcon. (Nobuhiro
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100268Takasaki, Ken Takata, 2017 Oct 1, #2060).
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100269
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200270Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200271Memory leak in test_arabic.
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200272Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200273
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100274Patch to clear background when "guibg=NONE" is used and 'termguicolors' is
275set.
276
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200277Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
278
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100279Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
280
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200281Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200282It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100283Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200284Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200285
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200286Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
287
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200288Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
289behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
290
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100291'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
292
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200293All functions are global, which makes functions like get() and len() awkward.
294For the future use the ~get() and ~len() syntax, e.g.:
295 mylist~get(idx)
296 mydict~get(idx)
297 mystring~len()
298Alternatives for ~:
299 ^ list^get() could also be used
300 . list.get() already means concatenate
301 $ list$get() harder to read
302 @ list@get() harder to read
303 -> list->get() two characters, used for lambda
304
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200305The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
306
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200307Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
308#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
309
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100310The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
311for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
312
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200313X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
314pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
315clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
316Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
317Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
318clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200319Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200320
321Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
322
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200323Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
324attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
325that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
326
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200327Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
328(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
329
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200330Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
331Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
332terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
333Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
334(Also #1890)
335
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100336Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
337buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
338Also fixes #2166?
339
340Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
341
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200342Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
343stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
344
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100345Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
346possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
347
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +0100348Patch to add "module" to quickfix entries. (Marcin Szamotulski, Coot, 2017 Jun
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01003498, #1757) Now part of #2322. Or #2327? #1757 was re-opened, include that
350first.
351
352Add `:filter` support for various commands (Marcin Szamotulski, 2017 Nov 12
353#2322) Now in #2327?
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +0100354
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200355When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
356case of :bwipe followed by :new.
357
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200358Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
359existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
360Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
361
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200362Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200363
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200364MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
365Jul 4)
366
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200367Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
368Drucker, 2017 May 8).
369This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
370Christian cannot reproduce it.
371
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200372Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
373wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
374Or is this not an actual problem?
375
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200376Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
377
378Openhab syntax file (mueller, #1678)
379
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200380Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
381
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200382Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
383
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200384'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
385#1736)
386
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200387Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
3888, #1690)
389
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100390Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
391manager. Problem with Motif?
392
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200393Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
394(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
395
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200396Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
397it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
398
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200399Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
400Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
401How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
402
403Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
404(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
405
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100406Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
407
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200408Patch to add configure flags to skip rtl, farsi and arabic support.
409(Diego Carrión, #1867)
410
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200411assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
412it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
413
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200414New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
415
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100416Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
417for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200418
419Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
420(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
421Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
422later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
423Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
424mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200425Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
426mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200427maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200428
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200429Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add aother command) to skip mappings from
430plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
431be defined when the plugin is loaded.
432
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100433Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
434 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
435 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100436
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200437json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200438What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100439
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200440Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
441
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200442import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
443(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
444
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100445When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
446buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
447Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100448
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100449When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist, behave
450like the item was not a match for :cnext.
451
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200452Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
453Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100454Another example in #1309
455
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100456When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
457when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
458
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100459Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
460#1330)
461
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200462Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
463
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100464Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
465
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100466GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
467g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
468timer expires.
469
470Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
471
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100472Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
473highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
474
4758 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
476 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
477
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100478Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
479Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
480
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200481Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
482key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
483 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
484 echo keytrans(xx)
485 <C-Home>
486
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100487Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
488(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
489Make a function to check for function-like type?
490
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200491Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
492(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
493
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100494Implement optional arguments for functions.
495 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
496 call Foo(12)
497 call Foo(12, all = 0)
498 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100499
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200500Change the Farsi code to work with UTF-8. Possibly combined with the Arabic
501support, or similar.
502Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
503
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100504Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
505somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
506
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100507Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
508(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
509
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200510Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
511Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
512New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
513
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200514Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200515Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200516Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200517
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200518Characters deleted on completion. (Adrià Farrés, 2017 Apr 20, #1645)
519Remarks from Christian Brabandt (Apr 21)
520
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100521The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
522"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
523Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
524
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200525Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
526
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200527Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
528about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200529Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
530
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +0200531Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
532#1053) With patch, does it work?
533
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100534Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
535MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
5362017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
537receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
538
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200539":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100540vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
541
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200542Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
543Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100544
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100545Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
546Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
547
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200548Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100549Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200550
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100551"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
552(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
553
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100554Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
555(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100556Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100557
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200558'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
559
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100560Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
561
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200562Patch to be able to separately map CTRL-H and BS on Windows.
563(Linwei, 2017 Jul 11, #1833)
564
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200565When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
566Apr 23, #1653)
567
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200568Using an external diff is inefficient. Not all systems have a good diff
569program available (esp. MS-Windows). Would be nice to have in internal diff
570implementation. Can then also use this for displaying changes within a line.
571Olaf Dabrunz is working on this. (10 Jan 2016)
5729 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
573 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
574 It's complicated and badly documented.
575
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100576Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
577anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
578
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100579When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that item.
580Make a difference being at the first item and not having used :cnext at all.
581(Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
582
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200583Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200584E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200585
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +0200586Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
587(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
588
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200589Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
590
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100591Patch to add trim() function. (Bukn, 2016 Nov 25, #1280)
592
593Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
594
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100595Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
596
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100597On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
598separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
599
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200600min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
601contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
602
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200603Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
604
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200605Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
606
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200607Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
608
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200609Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
610no longer support.
611
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200612sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
6134#1038)
614
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200615Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
616
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100617Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
618#1350)
619
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200620Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
6213. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
622Also see #1635.
623
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200624Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200625Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
626use the current behavior.
627Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200628
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200629Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
630New update 2017 Apr 10, #1628
631
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200632When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
633command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
634
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100635Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
636change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
637
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200638Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
639doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
640Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100641Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200642E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
643
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200644execute() cannot be used with command completeion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
645#1141)
646
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200647cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
648
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200649:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
650
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200651Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
652
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100653patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
654(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
655
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200656When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
657synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
658
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200659Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
660Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +0200661
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200662Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
663(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
664
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200665ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
666Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200667
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100668Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
669
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200670Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100671(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200672
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200673Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
674Jul 25, #948)
675
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100676Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
677names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
678Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
679the system encoding (usually utf-8).
680
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200681Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
682(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
683Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
684
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200685'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
686
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200687MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
688Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200689
690Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
691Also for ":@.".
692
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200693Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
694
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200695Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
696#1125
697
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100698Patch to add 'pythonhome' and 'pythonthreehome' options. (Kazuki Sakamoto,
6992016 Nov 21, #1266)
700
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200701Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
702times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
703
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200704This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
705(Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
706
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200707Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
708
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200709Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
710
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200711Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
712
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200713Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
714
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +0100715We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
716the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
717
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +0200718Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
719
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200720When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
721emoji_width table has only one entry.
722
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100723It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
724Reject the value? #710.
725
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200726Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
727set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
728
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200729When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
730Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
731
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200732Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +0200733Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200734
735Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200736
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200737Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
738No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200739
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200740Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
741(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100742
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200743Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
744
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100745Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
746https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
747Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
748
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100749Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
750but the reference remains valid.
751
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100752Need to try out instructions in INSSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
753interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
754Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
755interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
756result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200757
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100758Duplication of completion suggestions for ":!hom". Issue 539.
759Patch by Christian, 2016 Jan 29
760>
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200761Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100762work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200763
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100764Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
765
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200766Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
767
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +0200768Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
769Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
770
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200771When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
772Apr 17) #762
773
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200774exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
775Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
776
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100777Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
778'iskeyword' for syntax.
779
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100780Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
781(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
782
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100783Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
784
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200785When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
786maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +0200787Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200788
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100789Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
790It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
791Add configure check?
792Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
793Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
794Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
795
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100796Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
797Do not include the linebreak at the start?
798
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +0200799Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
800Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
801Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
802
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200803Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
804Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
805
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100806Access to uninitialized memory in match_backref() regexp_nda.c:4882
807(Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 6)
808
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100809":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
810directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
811
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100812In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
813(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
814
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02008157 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
816 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
817 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
818 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200819Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jun 10, #859
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200820
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200821If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
8222016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200823
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100824Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
825(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
826
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100827Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200828Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100829
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100830Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
831Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
832
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200833Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
834
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200835When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
836restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
837Do not trigger the event?
838
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200839Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
840changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
841and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100842Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
843Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
8446, 2nd message)
845Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100846
Bram Moolenaar681baaf2016-02-04 20:57:07 +0100847Patch to fix that executable() may fail on very long filename in MS-Windows.
848(Ken Takata, 2016 Feb 1)
849
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100850Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
851Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
852https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
853
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100854Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
855With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
856
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200857Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100858
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +0100859Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
860
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +0100861Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100862Only remembers one error.
863
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200864Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
865
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200866Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
867(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200868
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +0100869Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
870github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100871 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100872Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100873
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100874When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
875triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
876set_color_count().
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100877
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200878Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200879
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +0100880Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100881comparing individual items.
882Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
883Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
884Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
885equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
886
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100887Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
888
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100889MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
890wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
891
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100892Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
893specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
894
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +0100895Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
896(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
897
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200898Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200899inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200900
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100901Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
902(Luchr, #277)
903
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100904Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200905'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
906before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100907
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +0200908C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
909and also line continuation after #include.
910I can't recommend it though.
911
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100912Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
913(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
914
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100915Patch to add arguments to argc() and argv(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2016 Jan
91624) Also need a way to get the global arg list? Update later on Jan 24
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200917Update Mar 5. Update Apr 7. Update Jun 5.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100918
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100919To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
920library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
921
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100922When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
923is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
924
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100925Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
92630)
927
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +0200928MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
929(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
930
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200931The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
93224): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100933
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200934":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
935effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
936
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200937":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
9389)
939
940The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
941wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
942
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200943Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200944Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200945
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100946When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
947the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
948
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200949Patch for problem with restoring screen on Windows. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, 2015
950Sep 10)
951
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200952Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200953slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
954inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
955
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200956ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
9572014 Sep 11)
958
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200959Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
960(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
961
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200962When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
963'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
964
965Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200966(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100967Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
968- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
969 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
970 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
971- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
972 covered by the above change.
973So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +0100974same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200975Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200976
977Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
978Work in progress.
979
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100980Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
981when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
982
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200983Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
984Is this right?
985
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200986Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
987(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
988Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
989
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200990Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
991Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100992
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +0200993Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
994Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
995
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200996Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
997
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100998Cannot execute the shell when it's in a directory with a space.
999Issue #459.
1000
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001001When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1002filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1003initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1004
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001005Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1006
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001007Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1008OK to not block marks?
1009
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001010Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1011
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001012Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1013
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001014When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1015(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1016
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001017Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001018
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001019Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1020(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1021
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001022When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1023any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1024
1025Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001026
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001027Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001028
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001029Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny,
10302015 Feb 6.
1031
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001032Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
1033Is this a good solution?
1034
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001035Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1036(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1037
1038Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1039
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001040Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1041Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1042was already defined.
1043(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1044
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001045Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1046
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001047Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001048Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001049Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001050Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001051
1052Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001053
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001054Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1055(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1056
1057Delete old code in os_msdos.c, mch_FullName().
1058
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001059Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1060(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1061
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001062Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001063Update 2016 Jun 10, # 857
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001064
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +01001065Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
1066change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
1067them: ":repeats".
1068
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001069Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1070
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001071When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1072these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1073window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1074
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001075Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1076should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1077history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1078Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1079
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001080"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1081Jun 8)
1082
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001083Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1084insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1085
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001086No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1087
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001088Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1089(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1090Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1091arguments.
1092
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001093Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1094
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001095Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001096
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001097Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
10980x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1099New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1100compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1101
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001102xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1103buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1104Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001105Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001106Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001107Also see issue #609.
1108We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001109
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001110Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1111right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001112its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001113
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001114Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001115What for systems that don't have unsetenv()? (Issue #1116)
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001116
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001117Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1118
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001119This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1120 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1121This neither: (ZyX)
1122 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1123
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001124'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1125Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1126from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001127
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001128Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
11292014 Jun 8)
1130
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001131Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001132Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001133Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1134Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1135User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001136- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1137 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1138 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001139- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1140- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1141 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1142 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1143 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1144 on vim.org.
1145- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1146 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1147- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1148- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1149- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1150- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1151Implementation:
1152- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1153 plugin separate.
1154- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1155 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1156 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1157- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1158 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1159- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1160 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1161 installing.
1162Out of scope:
1163- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1164- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1165 useful).
1166
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001167Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1168normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001169
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001170When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1171menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1172
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001173Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1174(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1175
1176":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1177various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001178
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001179Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001180(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1181
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001182VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1183instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1184
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001185Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001186Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001187
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001188Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001189command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001190
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001191Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1192
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001193Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1194highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001195
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001196The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1197For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1198
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001199Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001200possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001201
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001202Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001203
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001204Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
1205
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001206Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1207
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001208Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001209Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001210
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010012117 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1212 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1213 "lucida_console:h8").
1214Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1215
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001216:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1217
1218Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001219With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001220
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001221Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1222
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001223Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1224
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001225When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1226(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1227
1228Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
1229Dec 13.
1230
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001231GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1232(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1233
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001234Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1235registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1236
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001237Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1238
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001239The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1240(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1241Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1242
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001243The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1244- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1245- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1246
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001247Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1248Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1249reliably?
1250
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001251Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
1252That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
1253Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
125417)
1255Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001256Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001257
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001258Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1259(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1260
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001261Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1262(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1263
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001264Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
12652013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001266
1267Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1268
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001269Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
12705)
1271
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001272Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1273carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1274
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001275Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1276highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1277
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001278Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001279
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001280Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200128128) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001282
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001283Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
1284optional. (2013 Jul 12)
1285
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001286Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1287
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001288Improve the installer for MS-Windows. There are a few alternatives:
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001289- Add silent install option. (Shane Lee, #751)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001290- Installer from Cream (Steve Hall).
1291- Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen)
1292 https://github.com/gpwen/vim-installer-mui2
1293- make it possible to do a silent install, see
1294 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1295 Version from Guopeng Wen does this.
1296- MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
1297- The one on Issue 279.
1298Problem: they all work slightly different (e.g. don't install vimrun.exe).
1299How to test that it works well for all Vim users?
1300
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001301Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1302
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001303- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1304 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1305Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001306
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001307Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001308
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001309In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1310process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1311a reboot.
1312
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001313patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1314
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001315Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1316not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001317
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001318Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1319Or use expand('<sid>')?
1320
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001321Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1322
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001323Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001324
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001325Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
1326
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001327Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1328
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001329b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
13307)
1331
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001332Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1333compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1334
1335Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1336Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1337vim.bindeval().
1338
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001339Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
13402012 Aug 4)
1341
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001342Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1343(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1344
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001345Patch to add new regexp classes :ident:, :keyword:, :fname:.
1346(ichizok, 2016 Jan 12, #1373)
1347
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001348Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1349But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1350
1351Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1352Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1353Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001354
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001355Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1356loading all files.
1357
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001358MS-Windows resizing problems:
1359- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1360 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1361- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1362 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1363 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001364
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001365'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001366
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001367Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001368of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1369
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001370The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1371Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1372But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001373
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001374Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
1375Aug 16)
1376
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001377When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1378is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1379
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001380URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001381- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001382- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1383 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1384
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001385Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1386(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1387Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1388
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001389Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001390New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001391
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001392When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1393for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1394Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001395
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001396Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
1397
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001398Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
139924)
1400
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001401Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1402
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001403Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1404
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001405Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1406Apr 18)
1407
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001408Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1409And one for gui_x11.txt.
1410
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001411":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1412finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1413Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1414
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001415Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1416
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001417Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1418
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001419Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1420they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1421
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001422Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1423
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001424Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1425Nov 20)
1426
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001427Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001428Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001429
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001430`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001431(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1432
1433Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1434
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001435BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1436Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1437
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001438Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1439Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1440
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001441Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1442
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001443On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
14442012 Jun 19)
1445
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001446'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1447'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1448Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001449Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001450
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001451With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1452(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1453need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1454
1455Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1456only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
145721, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1458
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001459The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1460support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1461
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001462'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1463highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1464
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001465Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1466New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1467
1468Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1469Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1470
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001471Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1472Jan 19)
1473
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001474Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1475discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1476meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001477
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001478"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001479Oct 26)
1480
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001481Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1482
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001483With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1484register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001485
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001486Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1487
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001488When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1489(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1490
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001491When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1492then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1493from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1494
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001495Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1496":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
149715)
1498
1499Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1500
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001501BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1502cleared. See test64.
1503
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001504Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001505effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001506Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
1507
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001508On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
150964 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1510right type.
1511
1512string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1513(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1514
1515When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1516(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001517When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1518following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1519(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001520
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001521When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1522doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1523
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001524Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1525
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020015267 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
1527Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
1528
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001529maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1530mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1531
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001532Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1533(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1534
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001535When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1536indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1537the help file.
1538
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001539After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1540Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1541
1542Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1543
1544"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1545
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001546Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1547
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001548Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001549
1550Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
15512010 Dec 18)
1552
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001553With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1554number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1555Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1556
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001557Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1558Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1559
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020015608 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1561Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1562
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001563Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1564one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1565the match scrolls into view.
1566
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020015677 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1568Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1569Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1570
15719 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1572 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1573Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1574
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001575Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1576Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1577
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001578In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1579or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1580sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1581
1582GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1583doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1584
1585GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1586
1587Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1588Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1589
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001590Wish for NetBeans commands:
1591 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1592
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001593Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1594
15957.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1596there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1597do?
1598
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001599Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
160022)
1601
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001602New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1603- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001604- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001605 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1606
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001607"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
16082011 Feb 27)
1609
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001610Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1611^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1612
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001613When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1614exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
16159) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1616
1617g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1618the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1619
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001620Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1621crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1622
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001623Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
1624number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
1625
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001626Regexp engine performance:
1627- Profiling:
1628 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1629 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1630 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1631 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1632 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1633 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1634- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1635- Performance tests:
1636 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1637 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1638 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1639 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1640 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1641 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1642 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1643 'hlsearch'.
1644 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1645 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1646 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1647 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1648
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001649Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1650Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1651
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001652'beval' option should be global-local.
1653
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001654Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001655
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001656setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001657
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +020016587 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
1659 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
1660 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001661 Is this an update: related to: #179
1662 https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/backupdir
1663 Fixed patch 2017 Jul 1.
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001664
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001665With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
16662010 Oct 24)
1667
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001668Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1669
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001670When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1671Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1672
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001673":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1674
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001675'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1676
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001677C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1678checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1679Issue 46.
1680
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001681Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1682
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001683Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1684gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1685
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001686":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1687accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1688
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001689Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1690setwinvar().
1691
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001692Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1693
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001694When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1695instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1696
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001697Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1698Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1699Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001700
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001701Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1702back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1703
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001704Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001705Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1706
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001707CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1708the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1709FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1710
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001711Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1712Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1713
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001714Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1715Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1716
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001717I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1718Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1719an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001720
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001721Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1722
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001723Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1724non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001725
1726iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1727Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1728or replace with a character and continue?
1729
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001730Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1731Requires configure check for localtime().
1732Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1733
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001734Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1735Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1736
1737Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1738
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001739Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1740Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1741path.
1742
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001743Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001744Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001745
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001746'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1747
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001748":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1749like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1750
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001751Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1752https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001753
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001754Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
17552010 Nov 5)
1756
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001757Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001758Jan 7)
1759
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001760Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1761Only with "vim -u NONE".
1762
1763Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1764
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001765With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1766entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1767Feb 12)
1768
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001769Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1770characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1771
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001772Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1773
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001774Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1775 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1776
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001777Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1778
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001779When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1780Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1781
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001782When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1783not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1784string value.
1785
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001786For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001787line argument -noregister.
1788
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001789When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1790missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1791
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001792When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1793doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001794
1795Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1796(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1797Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1798There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1799Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1800
1801":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1802highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1803to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1804
1805Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1806Probably needs a bit of work.
1807
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001808Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1809Added test, updates, June 23.
1810Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1811With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1812Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1813
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001814List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001815Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1816
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001817Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1818
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001819Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1820
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001821Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1822Sep 1)
1823
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001824Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1825
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001826Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1827on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1828
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001829Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
18302009 Jul 18)
1831
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001832Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1833window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1834Needs more work.
1835
1836Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1837
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001838When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1839few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1840
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001841'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001842(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1843
1844Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1845J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1846
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001847When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1848for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1849
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001850Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1851
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001852Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1853
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001854":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1855because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1856ex_docmd.c.
1857
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001858Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001859Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1860
1861string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1862for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1863
1864Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1865
1866'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
186720)
1868
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001869Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
18702009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1871
1872Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1873
1874Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1875SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1876
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001877When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1878indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1879(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1880
1881Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1882are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1883Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1884Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1885that doesn't have a window.
1886
1887When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1888doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1889
1890getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1891displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1892
1893":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1894
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001895There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1896was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1897perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1898
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001899Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1900
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001901Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1902command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1903
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001904Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1905does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1906
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001907opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1908height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001909very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001910
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001911Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1912(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1913
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001914Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001915(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1916
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001917Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1918char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1919
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001920Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1921Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1922
1923This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
1924
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001925A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001926
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001927Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1928messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1929es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
19302009 Jan 26)
1931
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001932When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001933in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1934Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1935
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001936Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1937a modeline.
1938
1939Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1940Sergey Khorev)
1941
1942Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1943part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001944
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001945After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1946correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1947
1948Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1949(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1950
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001951shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001952'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1953Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1954unix-like shell?
1955
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001956Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1957register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1958(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1959
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001960Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1961Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1962
1963Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1964make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1965
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001966When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1967still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1968
1969"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1970(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1971
1972Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1973
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001974Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1975that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1976ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1977Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1978
1979Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001980Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001981
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001982MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1983doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1984probably causes this.
1985
1986'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020019872009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001988
1989Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1990 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1991 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1992(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1993
1994Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1995":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1996option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1997is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001998
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001999":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2000first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002001Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002002
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002003Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2004laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2005Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002006
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002007Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2008anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2009
2010On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2011doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2012Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2013Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2014
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002015When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2016'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2017fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2018the buffer to be unmodified.
2019Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2020another look at it.
2021
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002022c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2023(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2024
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002025You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2026error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2027Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2028at the other match for 0xBF.
2029
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002030When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2031argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2032
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002033Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2034backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2035
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002036When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2037line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2038
2039Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2040position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2041
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002042After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2043(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002044command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002045
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002046":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2047Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2048
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002049When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2050either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2051put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2052
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002053Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2054Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2055Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2056Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2057(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2058
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002059Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2060
2061ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002062
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002063Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2064(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2065escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2066an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002067This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2068July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002069Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2070work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2071
2072When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
207331)
2074
2075Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2076work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2077Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002078
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002079Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2080multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2081(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2082
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002083Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
20842008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002085Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002086
2087Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2088Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2089'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2090
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002091Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2092Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2093
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002094Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2095Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2096
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020020978 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2098 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2099 several).
2100 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2101 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2102 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2103Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2104
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002105The utf class table is missing some entries:
2106 0x2212, minus sign
2107 0x2217, star
2108 0x2500, bar
2109 0x26ab, circle
2110
2111Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2112line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2113
2114GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2115Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2116
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002117Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2118try the Cocoa version.
2119
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002120Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2121changed or the window is resized.
2122
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002123GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2124the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2125
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002126Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2127Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002128
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002129Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
21301) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2131
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002132C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2133with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2134Try to reproduce at work.
2135
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002136Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2137Is there a way to list all the files first?
2138
2139When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2140result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
214116)
2142
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002143Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2144(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2145
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002146Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2147Await response to question to make the register writable.
2148
2149Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
21501)
2151
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002152In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2153each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2154
2155try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2156
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002157try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2158
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002159":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2160Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2161
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002162Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2163
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002164Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2165Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2166
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002167Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2168Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2169Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002170
2171C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
2172(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
2173
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002174When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2175and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2176
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002177Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2178 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2179
2180New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2181
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002182":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2183a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2184
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002185'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2186Likonen, March 19)
2187
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002188Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2189other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2190
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002191The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2192appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2193matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2194
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002195When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2196character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2197'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2198(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2199
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002200Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2201Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002202
2203More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2204
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002205Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2206http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2207
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002208Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2209back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2210Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002211
2212Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2213No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2214
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002215Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2216terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002217
2218Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2219
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002220Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2221but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2222that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002223
2224When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2225
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002226Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2227Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2228
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002229Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2230popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2231size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2232This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2233
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002234When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2235it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2236
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002237Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2238then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2239files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002240Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2241indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2242":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002243in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2244quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002245Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002246
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002247When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2248parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2249neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2250particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2251Jun 3)
2252However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2253the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002254
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002255A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2256Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2257
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002258Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2259Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2260
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002261Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2262switch list is noticed:
2263 switch (i)
2264 {
2265 case 1:
2266 foobar:
2267 }
2268
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002269Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2270
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002271Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2272with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2273go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2274moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2275
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002276Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
2277Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
2278Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2279argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2280(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2281
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002282Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2283(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2284
2285Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2286makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2287.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
2288 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
2289
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002290Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
22912007 Feb 8)
2292
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002293Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2294set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002295
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002296Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2297
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002298Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2299Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2300New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2301patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2302
2303Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2304Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2305
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002306Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
23072007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002308Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002309
2310Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002311label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2312
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002313Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2314with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2315Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002316
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002317Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2318
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002319Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2320Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2321only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2322
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002323Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2324Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002325Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002326properly?
2327
2328Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
23292007 Jun 21)
2330
2331When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2332Jun 18)
2333
2334If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2335
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002336Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2337windows. (Adam George)
2338
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002339F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2340modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2341K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002342
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002343In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2344the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2345
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002346C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2347
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002348":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2349
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002350When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002351error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002352
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002353Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
2354use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2355
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002356Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2357if_ruby.c.
2358
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002359":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2360
2361The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2362it in keep_msg?
2363
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002364Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002365error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002366name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2367
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002368Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2369longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002370
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002371Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2372Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2373Also for ":w" without a file name.
2374The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002375
2376"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2377Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2378
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002379VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2380directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2381(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2382
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002383VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2384
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002385input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2386name?
2387
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002388Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2389
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002390When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2391(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2392Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2393will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2394
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002395gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2396This also fails with --remote.
2397
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002398When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
23992008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2400all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2401
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002402aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2403
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002404When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2405(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2406
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002407Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2408the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2409
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002410GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2411
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002412Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2413superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2414
2415Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2416character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2417
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002418Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2419Jun 5)
2420
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002421Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
24222008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2423Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2424
2425In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2426but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2427Jul 22)
2428
2429There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2430
2431Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2432":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2433somehow? Or use a new function.
2434
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002435Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2436
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002437Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2438moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2439that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2440
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002441The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2442
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002443When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002444cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2445the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2446
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002447These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2448 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2449 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2450 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2451
2452Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2453partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2454
2455In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2456buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2457reload it then?
2458
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002459For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2460
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002461Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2462only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2463
2464Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2465tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2466doesn't contain other directories.
2467
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002468Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2469Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2470
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002471Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2472 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2473 set background=dark
2474This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2475color is, not reset it.
2476
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002477Linux distributions:
2478- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2479 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2480 xfree-xterm".
2481- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2482
2483Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2484start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2485show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2486middle?
2487
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002488Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2489
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002490When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2491current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2492the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2493
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002494When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2495Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2496
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002497Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2498 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2499 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2500 - getting colors in xterm
2501 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2502
2503Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2504Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2505
2506Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2507
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002508A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2509Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2510
2511Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2512Dara, 2006 June 21)
2513
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002514Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2515number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2516
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002517After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2518the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2519
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002520Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002521
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002522Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2523Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2524
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002525Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010025262008 Sep 29)
2527
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002528In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2529check the result of has("patch13").
2530
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002531Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2532restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2533
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002534Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2535and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2536
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002537Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2538put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2539
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002540Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2541resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2542
2543In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2544can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2545
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002546GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2547maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2548doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002549Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2550visible.
2551
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002552When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2553differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002554
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002555The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2556be only one.
2557
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002558Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002559"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2560name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2561Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002562
2563Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2564(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2565
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002566Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2567as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2568
2569Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2570Jan 1)
2571
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002572Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
257323)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002574
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002575":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2576tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2577Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002578
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002579When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2580text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2581latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2582
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002583Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2584no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2585
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002586In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2587VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
25882007 Oct 16)
2589
2590TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2591Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2592
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002593Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002594
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002595When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2596typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2597Sep 3, 11)
2598
2599When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2600respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2601the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2602what happens for the GUI.
2603
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002604":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2605this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2606
2607When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2608Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2609restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2610
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002611Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
26122010 Jun 30)
2613
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002614Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2615'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2616(Kartik Agaram)
2617
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002618
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002619Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002620- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2621 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2622- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2623 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2624 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2625- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2626 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2627 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002628- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2629- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002630
2631
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002632More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002633- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2634 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002635- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002636- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2637 patch May 10)
2638- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2639 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2640- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2641 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2642- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2643- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2644- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2645 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2646 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002647- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002648- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2649 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2650- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2651 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2652- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2653 21)
2654- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2655 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2656- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2657 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002658- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2659 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002660- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2661 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2662 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2663 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2664 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002665- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002666
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002667Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000026689 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2669 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2670 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2671 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2672 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2673 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2674 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2675 (Alan Schmitt)
2676 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002677 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2678 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000026799 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002680 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000026818 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000026827 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2683 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2684 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000026858 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002686 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020026877 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002688 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2689- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2690 for multi-byte characters.
2691- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2692- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2693 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2694 been given values.
2695 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
26968 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002697 with an ESC sequence.
2698 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2699 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2700 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027017 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2702 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2703- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2704 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2705 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
27068 Add functions:
2707 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2708 Update 2004 Sep 10
2709 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2710 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002711 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002712 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2713 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2714 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2715 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2716 (2003 May 13)
2717 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2718 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002719 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2720 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002721 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2722 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2723 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027247 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2725 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2726- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2727 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
27287 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2729 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000027308 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2731 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027327 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
27338 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2734 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
27357 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2736 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027377 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2738- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2739 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2740 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002741- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2742 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2743- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2744
2745
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002746Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002747- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2748 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027498 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2750 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2751 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2752 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2753 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2754 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027558 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2756 make Vim exit.
27577 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2758 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2759 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
27608 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2761 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2762 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
27636 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2764 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2765 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
27668 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2767 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2768 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2769 names in one buffer???
2770 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2771 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2772 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
27737 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2774 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2775 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002776 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2777 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027787 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2779 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
27807 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
27817 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027827 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2783 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2784 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2785 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
27867 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
27877 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
27887 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2789 to the match with the tag? Option?
27907 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
27917 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2792 (Sayre).
27937 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2794 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027957 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2796 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2797 match. Nvi can do it too.
27987 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2799 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2800 line 1\ line 2\\
2801 line 2\ line 3\\
2802 . line4/
28036 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2804 the way the shell is started?
28056 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2806 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2807
2808
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002809GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028109 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028118 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2812 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2813 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000028148 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2815 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2816 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028179 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2818 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2819 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2820 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002821- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2822 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2823 blocked for now.
2824
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002825
2826Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002827- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2828 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028298 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2830 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2831 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
28328 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2833 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028346 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2835 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000028368 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2837 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2838 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028397 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2840 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2841 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028427 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2843 2004 May 9)
28448 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2845 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2846 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2847 MS-Windows 98?
2848 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2849 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2850 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2851 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028528 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2853 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2854 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2855 doesn't work properly.
28568 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2857 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2858 appears in the right position. (Webb)
28599 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2860 button doesn't give popup menu.
2861 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2862 selection.
2863 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2864 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2865 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
28668 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2867 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2868 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2869 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
28708 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2871 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2872 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028737 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2874 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2875 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
28767 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2877 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002878 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028797 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2880 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028816 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
28828 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2883 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2884 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
28858 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2886 know which keyboard is being used?
28877 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2888 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2889 area (Koloseike).
28908 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2891 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2892 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2893 the font name).
2894
2895
2896Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000028976 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2898 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2899 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2900 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2901 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029029 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2903 required and it's missing?
29048 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2905 wrong.
29069 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2907 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000029089 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002909 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2910 flag.
29118 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2912 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2913 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
29148 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
29156 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2916 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2917 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2918 the tooltips work though...
29197 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2920 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
29218 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2922 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2923 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2924
2925
2926Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010029279 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2928 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029299 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2930 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2931 through files.
29327 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2933 read long file names. (Schroeder)
29344 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2935 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2936 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2937 problem during a refresh.
29385 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2939 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2940 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2941 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2942 colors as it should.
2943 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2944 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2945
2946
2947Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002948- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029497 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2950 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029518 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2952 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2953 (Phillipps)
2954
2955
2956GUI:
29579 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2958 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
29599 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002960 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002961 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
29629 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2963 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
29648 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2965 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
29668 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2967 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2968 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
29698 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2970 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2971 of where it is processing the output.
2972 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
29738 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2974 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010029758 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000029768 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2977 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2978 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020029798 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029808 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2981 browse().
29828 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2983 use that code? Or use console dialog.
29848 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2985 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000029867 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2987 - regexp on/off
2988 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2989 when all buffers/directory is used:
2990 - filter for file name
2991 when directory is used:
2992 - subdirectory on/off
2993 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029948 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2995 to avoid problems.
29968 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2997 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2998 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
29998 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3000 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3001 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
30028 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3003 up. Set erase character somehow?
30048 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3005 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3006 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3007 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
30088 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
30097 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3010 visible.
30117 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3012 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
30137 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3014 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
30158 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3016 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
30178 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3018 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3019 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3020 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3021- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
30224 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3023 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3024 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3025
3026
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003027Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000030288 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3029 a good fallback, thus use:
3030 $HOME
3031 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3032 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3033 $USERPROFILE
3034 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3035 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3036 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3037 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030388 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3039 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
30408 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3041 Should work like in the GUI version.
30428 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3043 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
30448 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3045 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
30468 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3047 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3048 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030498 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3050 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3051 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3052
3053
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003054Win32 console:
30559 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3056 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3057 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3058 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3059 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3060 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3061 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3062 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3063 and the file is not saved.
3064 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3065 long name.
30668 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3067 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
30687 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3069 besides the console.
30708 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
30719 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3072 <C-S-i>?
30739 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3074 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
30758 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3076 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003077
3078
3079Amiga:
30808 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3081 sequences.
30829 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3083 backslashes in result.
30848 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3085 all options, using white space separation.
3086
3087
3088Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003089- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030907 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3091 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3092 (Jack)
3093 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030948 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3095 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030968 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
30978 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
30989 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3099 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031009 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003101
3102
3103"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003104- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3105 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003106- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3107 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003108- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3109 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3110 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3111 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3112 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3113 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3114 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000031159 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3116 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000031179 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003118 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3119 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031208 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3121 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3122 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003123 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031247 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3125 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
31268 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3127 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3128 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031297 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3130 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003131- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3132 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031338 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3134 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3135 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3136 using the horizontal scrollbar.
31377 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3138 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3139 invocations belong together.
31408 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3141 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
31428 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3143 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3144 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003145 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031468 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3147 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3148 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031498 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3150 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031517 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3152 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3153 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3154 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031557 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3156 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3157 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
31587 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3159 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3160 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
31617 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3162 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031637 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3164 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031659 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3166 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3167 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3168 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3169 script can be called.
31708 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3171 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3172 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031738 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3174 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000031758 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003176 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3177 configurable?
31788 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031798 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3180 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031818 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3182 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031838 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3184 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031859 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3186 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3187 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031887 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031898 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3190 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3191 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000031928 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3193 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003194 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3195 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031968 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3197 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
31989 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3199 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3200 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003201 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032027 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3203 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032047 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3205 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3206 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3207 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032088 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003209 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3210 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3211 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3212 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003213 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3214 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003215 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003216 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003217 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3218 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3219 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3220 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3221 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032228 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3223 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
32248 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3225 in lines that don't extend into the block?
32268 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3227 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3228 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
32298 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3230 'linebreak'.
32318 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3232 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3233 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032349 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3235 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3236 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3237 'magic' in history. (Margo)
32389 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3239 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
32409 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
3241 isn't updated).
32429 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
32439 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3244 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3245 cause another redraw, etc.
32468 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3247 must escape special characters in the pattern.
32488 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3249 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3250 ":w!!" for that.
3251 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3252 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003253 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032547 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3255 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3256 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3257 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3258 clipboard)
32597 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3260 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3261 Waggoner)
32628 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
3263 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
3264 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000032656 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3266 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3267 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032688 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3269 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
32708 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3271 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3272 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000032738 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032748 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3275 (e.g., ":w").
32768 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3277 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032788 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3279 script in do_cmdline().
32808 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3281 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3282 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3283 changes.
32848 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3285 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
32868 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3287 check for file marks. This can be slow.
32887 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3289 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3290 needed.
3291 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
32928 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3293 to skip catch_signals()?
32949 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3295 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3296 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3297 text?
32988 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3299 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
33008 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3301 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
33029 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3303 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3304 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3305 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3306 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
33077 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3308 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3309 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3310 in the list?
33118 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3312 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3313 instead of on button down.
33148 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
33159 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3316 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003317 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3318 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033198 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3320 character is typed.
33218 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3322 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
33238 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3324 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
33258 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3326 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3327 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3328 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3329 cygwin bash.
33307 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3331 Remember flags for backreferences.
33327 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3333 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
33347 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3335 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
33368 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3337 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
33387 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3339 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033407 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3341 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3342 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
33437 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3344 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
33458 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3346 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3347 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
33487 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3349 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003350
3351
3352I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
33539 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3354 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3355 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003356
3357
3358Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003359- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3360 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3361 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003362- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3363 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3364 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3365 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3366 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3367 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003368 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003369- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3370 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003371 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003372 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3373 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3374 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003375- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3376 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3377 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3378 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3379 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3380- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3381 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3382 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3383- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3384 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003385- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003386- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3387 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3388 character gets the highlighting.
3389- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3390 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3391- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3392 (Jennings)
3393- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
3394- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3395 errors. How do we get the rest?
3396- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003397- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003398 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003399- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3400 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3401 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3402- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3403 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3404 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3405 (Benzinger).
3406- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3407 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3408 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3409- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3410 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3411- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3412 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3413- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3414 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3415 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3416 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3417 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3418 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3419- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3420 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3421 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003422- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3423 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3424 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003425- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3426 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3427 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3428- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3429 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3430- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3431 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003432- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3433 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3434- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3435 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3436 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3437 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3438 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3439- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3440 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3441 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3442- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3443 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3444 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003445- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3446 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 +00003447- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3448 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3449 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3450 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3451 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3452- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3453 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3454
3455--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3456 *extensions-improvements*
3457
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003458Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3459- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3460 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3461 calling a function.
3462 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3463 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003464- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3465 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003466- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3467 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3468 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3469 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3470 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3471 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003472 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003473- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3474 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3475 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003476- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3477 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000034788 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3479 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3480 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3481 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003482- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3483 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003484
3485
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003486Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034878 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3488 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000034898 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3490 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000034918 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3492 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034938 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034949 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3495 - change to cursor position and curswant
3496 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3497 - how it works for folded lines
3498 - how it works with multi-byte characters
34999 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3500 work too.
35018 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3502 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3503 text.
35048 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
35057 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3506 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
35077 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3508 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003509 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003510- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3511
3512
3513Help:
3514- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3515 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3516- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3517 to the other matches.
3518- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003519- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3520 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3521 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3522 default contents.
3523- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3524 height for the help window (and other windows).
3525- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3526- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3527- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3528
3529
3530User Friendlier:
35318 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3532 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3533 Briscoe)
35348 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
35358 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3536 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3537 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
35388 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3539 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3540- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3541 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003542- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
35439 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3544 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3545 item?).
3546 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035478 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000035487 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3549 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3550 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000035518 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3552 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3553 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3554 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003555
3556
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003557Tab pages:
35589 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035597 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3560 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000035618 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000035628 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000035637 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000035647 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003565 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000035668 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3567 tab pages.
35687 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035697 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3570 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003571
3572
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003573Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003574- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3575 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3576- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3577 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3578 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3579- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3580 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003581- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3582 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3583 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003584- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3585 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3586 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003587- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3588 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003589- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003590 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3591 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000035928 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3593 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
35948 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3595 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
35968 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3597 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003598 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003599 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3600 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3601 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3602 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003603- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3604 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003605- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003606- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3607 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003608- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003609 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003610- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003611 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003612- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3613 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003614- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3615 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3616- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003617 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003618 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3619 in the affix file separately.
3620 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003621 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003622 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3623 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3624 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3625- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3626 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3627 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3628 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3629 Alternative:
3630 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3631 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3632 affix which is required.
3633- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003634 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003635- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3636 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3637 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003638- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3639 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003640- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3641 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3642- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000036438 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3644 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3645 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3646 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003647- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3648 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3649 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3650 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000036518 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3652 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000036538 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
36548 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3655 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000036567 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
36578 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3658 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3659 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3660 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003661
3662
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003663Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020036649 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3665 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020036668 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003667 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003668
3669Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003670 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3671 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036728 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3673 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000036748 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036758 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3676 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3677 user aware of this?
36788 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3679 commands skip over a closed fold.
36808 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
36818 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036827 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003683- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3684 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3685 missing line goes unnoticed.
3686 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003687- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3688 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3689 smoother?
3690- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3691 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003692- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3693 file can contain:
3694 args version.c main.c
3695 edit version.c
3696 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003697- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003698- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3699 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003700- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3701 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003702- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3703 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003704- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003705
3706Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003707- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3708 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3709 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3710 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037119 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3712 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3713 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3714 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020037159 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3716 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3717 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037188 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3719 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3720 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3721 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3722 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3723 item.
37248 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003725 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3726 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037278 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3728 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003729 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003730 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037318 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3732 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037338 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3734 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3735 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037367 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3737 so that the user can fix the problem.
37388 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3739 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037409 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
37418 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037428 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
37438 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037447 Searching and composing characters:
3745 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003746 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3747 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037488 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
37498 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
37508 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3751 characters.
37528 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
37538 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3754 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
37557 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3756 'display' option to specify this.
37577 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3758 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3759- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3760 fontselector somehow.
3761- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3762 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3763- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3764 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3765- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3766 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3767 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3768 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3769 if a font exists?
3770- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003771 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003772- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3773 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003774- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3775 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3776 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3777 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003778- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3779 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003780 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003781- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3782 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3783 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3784 But it's very complicated...
3785
3786
3787Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000037887 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003789- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3790- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3791 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003792- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3793 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003794- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3795- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3796 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003797- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3798 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003799- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3800 units as for the margins.
3801- Support right-to-left text?
38028 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3803 color.
3804
3805
3806Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038078 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3808 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
38098 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3810 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
38118 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3812 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000038137 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3814 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038158 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3816 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3817 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038187 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3819 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3820 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038218 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
38229 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3823 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038247 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3825 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000038267 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3827 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038288 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3829 change this for each release.
38308 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3831 pattern, but not in the body.
38328 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3833 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3834 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038358 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010038368 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003837 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3838 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038398 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3840 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
38418 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3842 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003843 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038448 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3845 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3846 used.
38478 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3848 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
38498 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3850 re-insert the [] if possible.
38518 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3852 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000038538 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3854 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3855 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3856 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3857 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038588 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3859 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
38608 Support for deleting syntax items:
3861 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3862 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3863 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
38648 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3865 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3866 a '<'. (Fleiner)
38677 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3868 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3869 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
38707 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3871 detected.
38728 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003873 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038748 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3875 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038768 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
38778 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
38787 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3879 ":mkvimrc".
38808 Improve c.vim:
3881 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3882 "c_strict_ansi".
3883 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
38848 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3885 current line while in Insert mode.
38868 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3887 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
38888 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3889 display position.
38908 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3891 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3892 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
38938 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3894 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3895 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000038967 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3897 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3898 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3899 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3900 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039017 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3902 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3903 E.g. for this html:
3904 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039057 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
39067 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3907 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039088 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
39098 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039107 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3911 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3912 completion?
39138 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3914 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
39157 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3916 select one of the sets.
39178 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3918 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3919 2, etc.
39208 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3921 highlighting (for "." command).
39228 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3923 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
39248 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
39257 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3926 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
39276 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3928 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3929- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3930 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3931- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003932- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3933 (for comment blocks).
3934- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3935 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3936 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3937 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3938 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3939 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3940 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3941 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3942 (Campbell)
3943 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3944 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
39457 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3946 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
39477 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3948 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3949 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
39507 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3951 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3952 messages. And external commands?
39538 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3954 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
39557 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3956 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3957
3958
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01003959Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039608 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3961 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003962 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039637 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3964 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3965 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039668 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3967 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003968- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3969 2006 Dec 11.
3970- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020039718 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3972 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3973 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3974 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3975 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3976 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000039777 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3978 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039798 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010039808 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
3981 can be the plugin name.
3982 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
3983 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039847 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3985 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3986 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3987 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3988 autocommand.
3989 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3990 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3991 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3992 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039937 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3994 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039956 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3996 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039978 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003998 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3999 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004000 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4001 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4002 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004003 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4004 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4005 3 2002
4006 Only add this when also implemented for
4007 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4008 be used.
4009 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004010 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4011 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4012 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4013 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4014 File.Open..." argument.
4015 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4016 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4017 with properties instead.
4018 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4019 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4020 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004021 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004022 crypt() encrypt string
4023 decrypt() decrypt string
4024 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4025 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004026 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004027 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004028 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004029 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004030 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004031 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4032 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004033 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4034 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004035 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004036 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
4037 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004038 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4039 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4040 to allow the library to execute a command or
4041 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040427 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4043 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
40448 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4045 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040468 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4047 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040488 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020040499 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004050 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
40516 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000040528 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4053 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040548 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4055 option or environment variable.
40568 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040578 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004058 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000040597 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4060 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040618 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4062 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
40638 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
40648 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4065 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4066 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4067 charwise({expr}).
40687 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4069 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4070 buffer for this?
4071 result = scratch(string, command)
4072 result = apply(string, command)
4073 result = execute(string, command)
4074 "command" would use <> notation.
4075 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
40767 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004077
4078
4079Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000040806 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4081 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4082 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4083 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4084 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4085 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4086 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004087
4088
4089Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000040907 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4091 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020040927 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4093 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4094 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4095 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000040968 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4097 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4098 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4099 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004100 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041018 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
41029 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
41038 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
41047 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4105 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
41068 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4107 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4108 when starting up in a color terminal.
41098 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4110 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041118 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4112 function be improved?
41138 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4114 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4115 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4116 this be improved?
41178 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4118 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000041197 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4120 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041217 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4122 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
41237 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4124 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041257 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4126 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4127 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4128 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4129 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4130 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4131 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041328 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4133 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4134 using strcmp() too often?
41357 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4136 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4137 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4138 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4139 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4140 the two blocks to the memfile block.
41417 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4142 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4143 with an argument that can be messed with.
4144 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4145 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
41467 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4147- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
41488 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4149 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4150- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4151 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4152- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4153- Do profiling on:
4154 - :g/pat/normal cmd
4155 - 1000ii<Esc>
4156 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4157 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4158 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4159 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4160 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4161 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004162 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041637 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4164 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4165 changed).
4166 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4167 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4168- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4169- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4170 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4171- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4172 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4173 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
4174- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
4175 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
4176- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4177- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4178 cursor is right of the screen.
41798 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4180 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4181
4182
4183Code size:
41848 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4185- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4186 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
41878 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
41888 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4189 it.
41907 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4191 left out.
41928 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4193 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010041948 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004195
4196
4197Messages:
41988 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4199 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
42008 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4201 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
42028 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4203 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004204- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4205 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4206- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042078 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4208 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042099 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4210 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4211 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4212 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4213 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042148 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4215 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
42168 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4217 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4218 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4219 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4220 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4221 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004222- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004223 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042248 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4225 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4226 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4227 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4228 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4229 error messages, printing text, etc.
42308 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4231 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4232 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4233
4234
4235Screen updating:
42367 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4237 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4238 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4239- screen_line():
4240 - insert/delete character stuff.
4241 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4242- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4243 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4244- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4245 waiting for a character.
42468 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4247 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4248 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004249
4250Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020042518 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042526 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4253- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4254 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4255 windows.
42567 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4257 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4258 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4259- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4260 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4261 (Goldfarb)
4262- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4263 bound windows.
4264- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4265 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004266- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004267- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4268 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4269 of lines but not with a single line).
4270
4271
4272Autoconf:
42738 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
42748 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4275 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4276- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4277 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4278- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4279- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4280- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4281
4282
4283Perl interface:
42848 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042857 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
42867 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
42876 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4288
4289
4290Shared libraries:
42916 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4292 :libload internal-name libname
4293 :libunload internal-name
4294 :liblist
4295 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4296 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4297 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
42986 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4299
4300
4301Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000043029 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4303 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4304 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4305 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4306 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043078 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4308 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4309 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004310 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004311 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000043127 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4313 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4314 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043158 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
43168 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4317 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043187 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4319 window for each tag.
43207 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
43217 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4322 bottom" search message.
43237 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4324 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4325 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004326- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4327- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004328- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4329 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4330 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043317 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4332 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4333 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4334 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
43357 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4336 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4337 :tagargs clear
4338 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4339 matching).
43407 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4341 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4342 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4343 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
43447 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4345 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
43467 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4347 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4348 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004349
4350
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004351Win32 GUI:
43528 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4353 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043547 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4355 (Mike McCollister)
43568 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4357 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4358 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4359 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4360 common part of the path.
43618 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
43628 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4363 gettext and menus work.
43648 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4365 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004366 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004367 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
43688 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4369 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
43708 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4371 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
43727 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4373 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
43747 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
43757 <Esc> should close a dialog.
43767 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4377 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4378 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4379 prompts.
43807 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4381 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4382 the file added into an already running Vim.
43837 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4384 functions to find the window title.
4385
4386
4387GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020043888 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004389- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4390 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
43917 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
43928 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
43936 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
43948 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4395 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
43969 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
43977 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
43988 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4399 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
44008 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4401 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4402 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
44038 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4404 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
44058 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4406 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4407 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4408 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044097 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
44108 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4411 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000044127 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4413 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4414 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044158 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
44168 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004417 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044188 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
44198 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
44208 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4421 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4422 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
44237 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4424 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4425 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
44267 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4427 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
44287 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4429 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4430 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4431 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044327 Should support multi-column menus.
4433- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4434 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4435- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
44368 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
44376 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4438 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
44397 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
44407 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4441 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4442 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
44437 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
44448 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4445 name can be chosen free.
44467 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4447 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
44486 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4449 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4450 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4451 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4452 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4453 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4454 things.
44557 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4456 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044577 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004458 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004459- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4460 where it was started from?
44617 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4462
4463
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004464Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020044659 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4466 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004467- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010044688 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4469 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4470 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4471 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
44728 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4473 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000044747 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4475 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4476 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4477 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000044787 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000044798 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4480 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044818 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4482 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4483 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000044847 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4485 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4486 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044878 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4488 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4489 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000044908 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4491 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044928 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044936 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4494 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000044957 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044967 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004497 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4498 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4499 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045005 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4501 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4502 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
45037 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4504 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4505 file.
45068 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4507 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4508 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004509- Add events to autocommands:
4510 Error - When an error happens
4511 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004512 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00004513 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
4514 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004515 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00004516 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004517 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4518 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004519 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004520 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004521 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4522 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4523 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4524 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004525 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004526 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4527 the char.
4528 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4529 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4530 file from CVS).
4531 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4532 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4533 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4534 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4535 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4536 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004537 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4538 changes.
4539 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4540 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004541- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004542 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004543 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004544 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4545 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4546 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4547 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4548 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4549
4550
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004551Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004552- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4553 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004554- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4555 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4556 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4557 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4558 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004559- Ideas from others:
4560 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4561 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4562 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4563 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4564 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4565 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4566 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4567 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4568 Uses Perl for C++.
4569 Uses ctags to find the info:
4570 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4571 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4572 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4573 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4574 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4575 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004576 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004577 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4578- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4579
4580
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004581Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004582- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000045837 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4584 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045857 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4586 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4587 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045888 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4589 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
45909 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4591 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4592 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045938 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4594 - ignore/match case
4595 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045968 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4597 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4598 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4599 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4600 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4601 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046028 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000046037 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4604 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046058 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4606 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4607 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4608 Should work for C++ and Java.
4609 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
46107 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
46117 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4612 instead of words.
46138 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
46148 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4615 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
46168 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4617 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004618- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4619 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004620- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4621 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4622 wildcards in the file name)?
4623- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4624- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4625- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4626 be in another file).
4627- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4628- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4629- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4630 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4631- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4632- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4633- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004634- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4635
4636
4637Command line editing:
46387 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4639 line.
46408 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4641 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4642 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4643- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4644 lines wraps to start of line).
4645- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4646 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4647 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4648 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4649 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4650 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4651 cmdwin does now already.
4652 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4653 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4654 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4655 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4656 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4657 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4658 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4659 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4660 Problems:
4661 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4662 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4663 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4664 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4665 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4666 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4667 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4668 character in first column?
4669 - Implementation ideas:
4670 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4671 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4672 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4673 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4674 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4675 Mode.
4676
4677
4678Command line completion:
46798 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
46808 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4681 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
46828 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4683 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046848 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4685 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046867 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4687 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004688- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4689- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4690 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046918 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4692 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
46937 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4694 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4695- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4696 identifiers (Webb).
46978 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4698 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
46997 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4700 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4701- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4702 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4703- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4704 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4705 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004706
4707
4708Command line history:
4709- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4710 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4711 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004712 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004713- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4714 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4715
4716
4717Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000047189 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4719 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4720 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047218 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4722 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4723 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4724 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4725 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047268 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4727 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4728 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047297 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4730 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004731- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047327 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4733 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4734- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4735 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4736 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4737 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4738 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4739 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4740- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4741 Normal mode.
4742- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4743 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4744 are used.
4745- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4746- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4747- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4748
4749
4750'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010047519 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4752 char * veryLongName =
4753 "very long string"
4754 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047558 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047568 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4757 long_type foo =
4758 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047598 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4760 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004761 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047628 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4763 func(
4764 new String[] {
4765 "asdf",
4766 "asdf"
4767 }
4768 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047698 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4770 (Chow Loong Jin)
4771 namespace {
4772 int
4773 func(int arg) {
4774 }
4775 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047766 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4777 func( arg1
4778 , arg2
4779 , arg3
4780 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000047817 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004782 func(
4783 int x) // indent like "(4"
4784 {
4785 if (a
4786 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047879 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4788 if (a)
4789 {
4790 if (b)
4791 {
4792 // {
4793 }
4794 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004795 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4796 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4797 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004798- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004799 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
48007 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4801- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4802 line).
4803- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4804- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4805 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004806- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4807 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4808- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4809 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4810- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4811- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4812 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
48138 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4814 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4815 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4816- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4817- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4818 lines start with "\item".
4819- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4820 /* here is a comment that
4821 is just autoindented, and
4822 nothing else */
4823- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
48247 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4825 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4826 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004827 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004828
4829
4830Java:
48318 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4832 Odendahl?
48338 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4834 "[i" commands and friends.
4835- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4836 (Jason)
4837- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4838 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4839
4840
4841'comments':
48428 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4843 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4844 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4845 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004846 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4847 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048487 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4849 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
48507 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
48516 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4852 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4853 regexp is used.
48548 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4855 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4856
4857
4858Virtual edit:
48598 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048607 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4861
4862
4863Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048648 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048658 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000048668 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004867 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000048688 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4869 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004870 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4871 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000048728 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048738 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4874 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048758 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4876 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4877 the end of the line or before a ".".
48787 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4879 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
48807 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4881 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048826 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
48835 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4884 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4885 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4886 cursor is on.
4887
4888
4889Select mode:
48908 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4891 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
48927 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004893 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048947 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4895 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4896 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4897 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4898 normal_cmd().
4899 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4900 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4901
4902
4903Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020049048 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4905 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004906- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4907 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4908 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004909- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4910 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4911 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049128 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004913 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004914 where needed.
49157 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4916 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
49177 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4918 of each selected line.
49198 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
49208 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4921 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4922 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
49238 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4924 Ben Godfrey)
49257 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4926 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
49277 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4928 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049297 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004930 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004931 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
49328 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4933 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
49347 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4935 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4936 option!
49377 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4938 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4939 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4940 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4941 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4942 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4943 without changing the column.
49446 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049457 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4946 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049476 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4948 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
49496 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049506 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004951 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004952 or other special character.
49536 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4954
4955
4956More advanced repeating commands:
4957- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004958- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004959- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004960 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4961 "y." will repeat last yank.
4962 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4963 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4964 and/or pick an older command.
4965- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4966
4967
4968Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049698 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4970 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4971 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
49728 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
49737 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4974 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049758 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4976 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
49778 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000049787 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049798 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4980 entering search strings.
49818 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4982 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4983 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049848 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4985 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049867 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049877 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4988 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049896 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4990 abbreviations are to be used.
4991- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4992 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4993 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004994- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4995 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4996 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4997 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4998 Or implicit:
4999 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005000- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5001 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5002 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005003- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5004 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5005- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5006 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
50076 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5008 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5009 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5010 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005011- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5012 non-replace Insert mode?
5013- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005014- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5015- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5016 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5017- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005018 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005019- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5020 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5021- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5022- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5023 ":freekeys".
5024- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5025
5026
5027Incsearch:
5028- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
5029- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5030 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5031 up every time.
5032- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5033 folds when going to another line.
5034- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5035 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5036 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5037 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005038
5039
5040Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010050419 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000050428 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005043 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005044 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005045 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005046 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010050479 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5048 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010050498 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5050 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000050518 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5052 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5053 Perl does it this way:
5054 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5055 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5056 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5057 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050588 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5059 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5060 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000050617 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5062 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000050638 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5064 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000050657 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005066 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5067 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5068 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000050697 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005070 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050717 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5072 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050738 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5074 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
50758 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5076 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020050777 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005078 example.
50798 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5080 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5081- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5082 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5083 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5084 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050858 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5086 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5087 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
50887 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5089 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000050907 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5091 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050928 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5093 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050948 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5095 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050968 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5097 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5098 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5099 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005100- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5101 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005102- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5103 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5104- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5105 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5106 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5107 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051088 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5109 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005110- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5111 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051128 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5113 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5114 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005115- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5116 i ignore case
5117 I use case
5118 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5119 v use Vi regexp syntax
5120 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5121 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5122 Perl uses these too:
5123 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5124 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5125 o compile only once (Perl only)
5126 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5127 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5128 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5129 following command.
5130 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5131- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5132 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5133 for search string)?
51347 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5135 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5136- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5137 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5138- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5139 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5140- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5141- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005142 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005143 a for the next file in the argument list
5144 f for file in the buffer list
5145 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005146 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5147 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005148 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5149 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5150- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051517 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005152 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051537 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5154 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5155 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5156 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
51576 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5158 effects.
51597 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5160 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5161 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000051627 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005163 Also ":dselect".
5164
5165
5166Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010051679 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5168 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5169 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051709 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5171 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020051728 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5173 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051748 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5175 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5176 timestamp?
5177 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5178 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005179- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5180 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005181- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5182 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5183 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
51848 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5185 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5186 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5187 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
51888 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5189 only remember the lines that really changed.
51907 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5191 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5192 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5193 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005194- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5195 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5196- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5197 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5198- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5199 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5200 [-99].
5201- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5202- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005203- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5204 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5205
5206
5207Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052087 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5209 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5210 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5211 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
52128 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5213 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
52148 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5215 inode too.
52167 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005217 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5218 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052197 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5220 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5221- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5222 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5223- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5224 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
52257 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5226 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
52277 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5228 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
52298 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052307 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5231 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010052328 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5233 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5234 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005235
5236
5237Swap (.swp) files:
52388 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5239 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5240 there are short file name problems.
52418 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5242 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
52438 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
52448 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005245 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005246 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5247 file the same as the actual file?
5248 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052497 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5250 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
52517 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005252 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005253 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5254 enough room.
52557 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5256 or /var/preserve.
5257- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5258 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5259- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005260 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005261- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5262 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5263 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5264 cached list of which line is where.
5265
5266
5267Viminfo:
52687 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5269 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5270 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052718 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5272 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5273 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052748 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5275 name. (Schild)
52768 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
52778 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052788 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052798 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5280 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5281 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5282 this?
52837 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
52847 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5285 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
52866 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5287 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5288 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5289- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5290 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5291
5292
5293Modelines:
52948 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5295 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5296 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005297- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5298 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5299 'shiftwidth'.
5300- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5301 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005302- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5303 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5304 modeline setting.
5305- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5306 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5307- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5308 .cpp files.
5309- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5310 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5311- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5312 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5313
5314
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005315Sessions:
53168 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5317 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
53187 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5319 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053208 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5321 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053228 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5323 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5324 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000053257 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5326 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000053277 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005328
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005329
5330Options:
53317 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5332 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053338 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5334 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5335 also be supported.
53368 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5337 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5338 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
53397 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
53407 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
5341 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01005342 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005343
5344
5345External commands:
53468 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5347 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
53484 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5349 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5350 -f).
53514 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
53524 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5353 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
53544 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5355
5356
5357Multiple Windows:
53587 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
53598 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5360 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
53617 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5362 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5363 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000053647 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5365 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000053667 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5367 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053686 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5369 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005370 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005371 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
53727 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5373 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5374 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5375 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5376- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5377 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5378 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5379 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5380
5381
5382Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053838 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053848 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5385 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000053868 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 +000053878 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5388 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
53898 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5390 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5391 the mark was set.
53927 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5393 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5394 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5395 ":browse marks"?
53966 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053977 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5398 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
53997 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5400 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
54017 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5402 command).
54037 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5404 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5405 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5406 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
54075 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5408 mappings.
54096 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5410 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5411 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5412
5413
5414Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020054157 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005416 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005417- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5418 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000054198 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054207 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5421 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5422
5423
5424Writing files:
5425- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5426 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5427 shortname conversion.
54288 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
54298 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5430 file.
54318 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5432 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5433 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054346 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5435 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
54366 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5437 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
54386 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5439 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000054408 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005441 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
54427 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5443 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
54447 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5445 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5446 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5447 waiting for a character to be typed).
54488 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5449 line of the window, like "[time]".
5450 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5451 Automatic and/or with a command.
5452
5453
5454Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000054558 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5456 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000054578 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005458 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5459- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5460- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
54618 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5462 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005463- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005464 :s///N substitutes N times.
5465- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5466 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5467 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
54687 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5469 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5470 last line column 5.
54715 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5472 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5473 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5474 (Stanislav Sitar)
5475
5476
5477Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054788 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
54797 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
54808 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5481 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5482 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005483- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5484- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5485 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5486- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5487- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5488
5489
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005490Argument list:
54916 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5492 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5493 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
54946 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5495
5496
5497Registers:
54988 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054998 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5500 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5501 for every line.
55026 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5503 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5504 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5505- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5506 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5507- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5508 leader when line wraps?
5509- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5510 line in the range.
5511- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5512 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
55138 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5514 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005515
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005516
5517Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055188 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000055198 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055207 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
55217 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5522
5523
5524Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000055257 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5526 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5527 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5528 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5529 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5530 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5531 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005532 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000055337 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5534 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000055357 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5536 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055378 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5538 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055397 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5540 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5541 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005542- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005543 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055447 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5545 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055467 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5547 window as a buffer-tab selection.
55488 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055497 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5550 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
55518 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5552 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055536 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055548 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5555 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5556 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5557 in this Vim.
55588 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005559 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055608 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5561 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5562 have it apply to the following command.
55638 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5564 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5565 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5566 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055677 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5568 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055697 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5570 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5571 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5572 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055736 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
55748 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
55759 Support ACLs on more systems.
55767 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5577 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055787 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5579 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5580 (truncated to fit in the space).
55817 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
55828 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
55838 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5584 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000055857 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005586 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
55877 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5588 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055897 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055907 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
55917 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055928 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
55938 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5594 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5595 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5596 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
55978 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055988 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055998 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5600 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5601 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5602 does something like this. (Shah)
56037 Use growarray for replace stack.
56047 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5605 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
56063 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056077 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5608 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056097 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5610 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005611- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5612- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5613- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5614- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
56157 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5616 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5617- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5618 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005619- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005620- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5621 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5622- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5623 call "play newbeep.au").
5624- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5625 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5626 (Bhatt).
5627- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5628 blockwise registers).
5629- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5630 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5631- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5632 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5633 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5634 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005635- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056367 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5637 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5638- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5639 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5640 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5641 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5642 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056438 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5644 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056458 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5646 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5647 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5648 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5649 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5650- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005651- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056527 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5653 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5654- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5655 not in column 1.
56566 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5657 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
56587 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5659- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005660- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005661 :redir #> bufname
5662 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005663- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5664 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005665- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5666 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5667 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
56686 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5669 console? (Klaus Hast)
5670- Add :delcr command:
5671 *:delcr*
5672 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5673 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5674 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5675 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5676 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5677 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5678- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5679- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5680 characters from 'isprint'.
5681- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5682- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5683 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5684- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5685 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5686 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5687- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5688- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5689 Nvi).
5690- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5691 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
56927 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5693- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5694 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
56956 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5696- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5697 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5698 macro).
5699- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005700- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5701 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5702- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
57038 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005704- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5705- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5706- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5707 if it is not the first or last window.
5708- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5709 there is one) instead of the file itself.
57107 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5711 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5712 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5713- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5714- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005715 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005716 many percent down the windows).
5717- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5718 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5719 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005720 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005721- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5722 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5723- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5724 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5725- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5726- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5727- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5728 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057298 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5730 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5731 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5732 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5733 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005734- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5735 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5736- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005737 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5738- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005739 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5740 (Webb).
5741- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005742 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005743- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5744 hex codes like 0xff).
5745- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5746 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5747 the last TYPED command.
5748- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5749- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5750- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5751 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005752- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057538 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5754 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5755 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005756- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005757 trailing '.'.
5758- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5759 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5760 find_file_in_path().
5761- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5762 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5763- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5764- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5765 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5766- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005767 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005768- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5769 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5770 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005771- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5772- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5773- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5774 to the minimal size.
5775- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5776- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5777- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5778- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5779- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005780- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5781 entered)?
5782- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5783 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005784- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005785- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5786- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5787- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5788- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5789- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5790 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005791- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057928 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5793 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5794 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5795 or in octal.
57967 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5797 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005798- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005799 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5800- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5801- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5802 insert line command).
5803- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5804- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5805- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5806- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5807- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5808 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005809- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005810 yet.
5811- Implement 'redraw' option.
5812- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5813 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058147 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5815 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005816 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5817 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058188 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5819 do it.
5820- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5821- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5822 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5823- Add text justification option.
5824- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5825- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5826 off".
5827- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5828- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5829- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005830 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005831- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005832- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005833- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5834 commands.
5835- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5836- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5837- :table command (Webb)
5838- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005839- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5840- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5841- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5842- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5843- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5844 (Demirel).
5845- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5846- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5847 for use in macro's and the like.
5848- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005849 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005850- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005851 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005852- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005853 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005854 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5855- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5856 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005857- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005858 mkopttab to make option table?
5859- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5860 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5861- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5862 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005863- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005864 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5865- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5866 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005867- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000058688 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5869 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5870 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5871 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5872 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058738 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5874 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5875 (Netherton)
58766 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5877 space after "(", for example.
58785 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5879 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5880 (Servatius Brandt)
5881
5882
5883From Elvis:
5884- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5885- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005886- Search patterns:
5887 \@ match word under cursor.
5888 but do:
5889 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5890 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
58918 ":window" command:
5892 :win + next window (up)
5893 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5894 :win - previous window (down)
5895 :win -- idem, wrapping
5896 :win nr to window number "nr"
5897 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
58987 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5899 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5900
5901
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005902From xvi:
5903- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5904- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5905
5906
5907From vile:
5908- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5909- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5910 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5911
5912
5913Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005914- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5915 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01005916 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005917 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5918 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005919- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5920 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5921- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5922 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5923 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5924 current layout mirrored.
5925- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5926- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5927 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5928- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5929- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5930 font in each top-level window.
5931- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5932- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5933- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5934- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5935 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005936- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5937 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5938- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5939 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
59404 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5941 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5942 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5943 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005944 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005945 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5946 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5947- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5948 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5949 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5950
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005951vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5952vim: set fo+=n :