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Bram Moolenaar30e9b3c2019-09-07 16:24:12 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2019 Sep 07
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020041Popup windows:
42- Implement flip option
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020043- Why does 'nrformats' leak from the popup window buffer???
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +020044 Happens in Test_simple_popup() at the second screendump.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020045- For the "moved" property also include mouse movement?
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020046- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020047 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
48- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
49 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for more commands.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020050- Figure out the size and position better.
51 if wrapping splits a double-wide character
52 if wrapping inserts indent
53- When drawing on top half a double-wide character, display ">" or "<" in the
54 incomplete cell.
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020055
56Text properties: See comment at top of src/textprop.c.
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +020057
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020058'incsearch' with :s: (#3321)
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +010059- Get E20 when using command history to get "'<,'>s/a/b" and no Visual area
60 was set. (#3837)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020061- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
62 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +010063- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
64 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020065- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +020066- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020067- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
68 isn't one?
69 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
70
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020071Prompt buffer:
72- Add a command line history.
73- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010074- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020075
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020076Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020077- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010078- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
79 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020080- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +010081- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020082- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
83 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
84 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010085- Add support for lldb? #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010086- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
87 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +010088 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010089 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020090
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020091Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +020092- When typing "exit" in a terminal window with a shell and it's the only
93 window, should exit Vim instead of editing another buffer. (#4539)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +010094- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
95 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
96 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +010097- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
98 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020099- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
100 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100101- Terminal API: Add more functionality? (Ozaki Kiichi 2018 May 13, #2907)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200102- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200103- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200104- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
105 #2977)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200106- Add a way to make ":term cmd" run "cmd" in a shell, instead of executing it
107 directly. Perhaps ":term ++shell cmd". (#3340)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200108- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
109 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
110- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
111 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200112- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
113 is disabled.
114- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
115- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
116 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200117- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
118 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
119 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
120- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
121- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
122 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
123- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
124 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200125
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200126Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200127E278, E279, E290, E292, E362, E366, E450, E451, E452,
128E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
129E654, E856, E857, E860, E861, E863, E889, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200130
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200131Remove check for cmd_silent when calling search_stat()? (Gary Johnson)
132
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200133undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
134
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200135Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200136
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200137Patch to add win_splitmove() function. (Andy Massimino, #4561)
138
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200139Patch for #4733: #4734. Test needs improvements.
140
Bram Moolenaar30e9b3c2019-09-07 16:24:12 +0200141Add CmdwinLeavePost (#4762). Also add WinLeavePost then?
142
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200143Patch to fix session file when using multiple tabs. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May
14420)
145Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
146remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
147
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200148Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
149Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
150terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
151Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
152(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200153
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200154Patch to use timers in matchparen. (Daniel Hahler, #1338)
155Ready to include now?
156
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100157Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
158(#4087)
159
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200160Patch to support 'cursorlineopt' - only highlight the line number of the
161cursor line: #4693
162
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200163Let plugins know how much space is available in the last line before
164triggering the hit-enter prompt. Internally called "sc_col".
165(Daniel Hahler, #4732)
166
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200167Patch for Template string: #4491 Not ready yet. New pull: #4634
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200168
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200169":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
170goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
171unlisted. (#4478)
172
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200173Patch to fix using zero sc_sid. (#4877)
174
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200175Make 'showbreak' global-local.
176
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200177The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
178support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
179
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200180Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
181(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
182
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200183When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
184default one. #4698
185
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200186Patch from Namsh to allow building with both XIM and hangulin. (2019 Aug 29)
187
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200188When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
189with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
190
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200191Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200192Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200193
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200194Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
195fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
196
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200197Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
198- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
199- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200200
201Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
20213, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200203
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200204Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200205
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100206Errors found with random data:
207 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100208
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200209Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
210files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
211Include part of #3242?
212
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200213When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
214it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
215
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200216Patch for Inno Setup: #2739
217
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200218Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
219t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
220
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100221Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
222Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
223
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200224'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
225
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200226"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
227(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
228
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100229Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
230
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200231The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
232Give a few examples. (#4288)
233
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200234Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
235work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
236
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100237Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
238read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
239be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
240
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200241":registers" should indicate char/block/linewise. (Ayberk Aydin, #4546)
242
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200243Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
244(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
245
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200246Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
247
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200248Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
249
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200250Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
251https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
252
253Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
254http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
255http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
256Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
257- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
258- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
259- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
260 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
261- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
262- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
263Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
264- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
265- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
266Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
267- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
268
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100269Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
270Mar 5)
271
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200272Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
273- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
274 line.
275- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
276 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
277- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
278 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
279
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200280Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
281on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
282
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200283Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
284in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
285buffer didn't change at all.
286
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200287Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
288register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
289(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
290
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200291Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
292(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
293
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200294Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
295":let buf = bufcreate('name')
296
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200297Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
298'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
299(#4450)
300
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100301When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
302But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
303similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
304
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200305C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
306(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
307
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100308Support setting the character displayed below the last line? Neovim uses
309"eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
310
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100311Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
312added?
313
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200314Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
315negative. (see #4326)
316
317'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
318`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
319tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
320:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
321
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200322This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
323 vim: syn=nosyntax
324
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200325":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
326a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
327
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100328Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
329#2948. (related to #1512?)
330On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
331balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
33220, #2481)
333Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
334Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
335balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
3362018 Sep 14)
337Another request: #3811.
338
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200339More warnings from static analysis:
340https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200341
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100342Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
343
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200344Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
345
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200346Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
347internals of the dict structure.
348
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200349Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
350manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
351Athena is OK.
352Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100353
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100354nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
355
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200356Missing tests for:
357- add_termcap_entry()
358
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200359Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
360change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
361them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
362
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100363When using exclusive selection and vi" that fails, cursor moves to the left.
364Cursor should not move. (#4024)
365
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100366Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
367Also run all tests with C locale?
368
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100369"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
370#3927
371
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200372Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200373Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200374
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100375When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
376case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
377For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
378
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200379Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
380(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
381expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200382
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200383Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
384 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
385 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
386
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100387Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100388punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100389
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200390ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
391
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200392Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
393":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
394#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
395Updated 2019 May 25.
396
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200397Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
398drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
399
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200400Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
401is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
402
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100403When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
404scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
405using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
406
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200407Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
408#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
409(Sep 8)
410
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200411Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
412unified diff (list of lines).
413
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100414When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
415kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
416when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
417
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100418Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
419(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100420
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100421Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
422
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200423Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200424Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200425memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200426Memory leak in test_terminal:
427==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
428==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
429==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
430==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
431==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
432==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
433==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
434==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
435==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200436TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100437Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200438Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
439Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200440
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200441gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200442
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200443matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
44419.
445
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100446Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
447Probably window.
448Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
449highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200450And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
451'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100452
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100453Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
454Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
455
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200456Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
457Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
458Not ready to include.
459
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200460Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
461Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
462Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
463
464Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
465
466Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
467screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
468
469Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
470 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
471 Not ready to include.
472
473Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
474Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
475
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200476home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
477
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200478When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
479terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
480How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
481
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200482Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
483
484Set g:actual_curbuf when evaluating 'statusline', not just with an expression.
485(Daniel Hahler, 2018 Aug 8, #3299)
486
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100487Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
488Feedback from someone who uses this?
489
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200490ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
491
492Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
493Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
494values.
495
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100496Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200497- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
498- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
499- omit diff.exe from distribution
500- Can we make this show differences within a line?
501- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200502
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200503Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
504
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100505Patch to properly break CJK lines: #3875
506Requires more tests. dbcs_ functions are not implemented.
507
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100508Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
509What is the practical use for this?
510
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200511When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
512includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
513
514Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100515Ask to write a test first.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200516
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200517MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
518(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
519
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100520Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
521
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200522Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
523
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200524Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
525when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
526
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100527Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
528mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
529
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200530Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
531
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200532Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
533modified buffers
534 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
535 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
536 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
537 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
538
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100539Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
540- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
541- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
542- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100543- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
544
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200545Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
546characters. (#3246)
547
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200548'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
549
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100550Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
551Oct 28)
552
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200553ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
554Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
555Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
556Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
557
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100558Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
559- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
560
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200561Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
562- Test_setbufvar_options()
563- Test_exit_callback_interval()
564
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200565Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
566Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100567Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
568Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200569
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200570Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
571
572Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
57324)
574
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100575Try out background make plugin:
576 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
577or asyncmake:
578 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
579
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100580Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100581mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100582
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200583Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
584is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
585used for git temp files.
586
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100587Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
588
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200589Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
590#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
591
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200592Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
593behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
594(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
595
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200596Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
597pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
598
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200599Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
600script or function.
601
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200602Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
603Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
604
605When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
606E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
607does nothing otherwise?
608
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200609MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
610If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
611(wait a little while).
612CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100613
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200614Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
615MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
6162017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
617receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
618
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200619Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
620missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
621
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200622":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
623deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
624
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200625Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200626
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100627Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200628Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
629
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200630With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
631included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
632(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
633
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200634Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200635Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200636
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100637Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100638Jan 15, #2555)
639
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200640":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
641
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100642Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
643
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100644No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
645No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
646
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200647Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
648http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
649Should be supported with a flag.
650
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100651Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
652confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
653
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100654Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
655
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100656Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
657Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
658applying the diff, etc.
659
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200660Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
661Apr 26, #2849)
662
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100663User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
664word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100665
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100666Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200667
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200668With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
669(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
670
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200671Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
672:drop (remote commands).
673
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200674Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
6752018 Jun 18, #3027)
676
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200677Implement option_save() and option_restore():
678option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
679 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
680 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
681 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
682 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
683 be called when the same window is the current window.
684 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
685 the local options won't be restored.
686
687option_save({list}) *option_save()*
688 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
689 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
690 let s:saved_options = option_save([
691 \ 'ignorecase',
692 \ 'iskeyword',
693 \ ])
694 au <buffer> BufLeave *
695 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
696< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
697 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
698 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
699 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100700 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
701 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
702 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100703 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200704
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100705"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
706directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
707Also see #1689.
708
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100709crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
71017, #2652)
711
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100712When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100713highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100714
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200715":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
716
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100717No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
7182017 Dec 26, #2501)
719
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200720A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
721
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200722Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
723
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200724A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
725Mention where they were defined somewhere.
726
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100727Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
728(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
729
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200730ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
731
732Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
733
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100734Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
735Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
736
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100737Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
738in #846)
739Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
740
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200741Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
742Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
743
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100744When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
745redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200746
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100747In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
748(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
749
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100750Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
751neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100752
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100753Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
754Nov 21)
755
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200756When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
757triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
758set_color_count().
759
760Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
761responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
762
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100763When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
764CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
765Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
766always nested.
767
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200768matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
769
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100770Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
771
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100772MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100773for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
774
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200775Would be nice for insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100776(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200777
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200778Test runtime files.
779Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200780
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200781Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200782
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200783Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
784defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
785Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
786
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200787After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
78813, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200789
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200790When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
791line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
792
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100793The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
794
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200795Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
796set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
797
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200798Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
799
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100800Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
801
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200802Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200803It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100804Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200805Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200806
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200807Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
808behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
809
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100810'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
811
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200812The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
813
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100814When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
815a command can delete it.
816
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200817Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
818#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
819
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100820The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
821for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
822
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200823X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
824pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
825clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
826Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
827Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
828clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200829Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200830
831Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
832
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200833Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
834attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
835that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
836
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200837Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
838(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
839
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100840Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
841buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
842Also fixes #2166?
843
844Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
845
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200846Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
847stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
848
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100849Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
850possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
851
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200852When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
853case of :bwipe followed by :new.
854
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200855Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
856existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
857Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
858
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200859Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200860
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200861MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
862Jul 4)
863
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200864Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
865Drucker, 2017 May 8).
866This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
867Christian cannot reproduce it.
868
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200869Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
870wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
871Or is this not an actual problem?
872
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200873Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
874
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200875Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
876
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200877Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
878
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200879'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
880#1736)
881
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200882Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
8838, #1690)
884
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200885Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
886(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
887
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200888Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
889it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
890
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200891Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
892Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
893How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
894
895Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
896(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
897
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100898Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
899
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200900assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
901it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
902
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200903New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
904
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100905Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
906for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200907
908Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
909(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
910Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
911later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
912Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
913mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200914Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
915mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200916maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200917
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100918Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200919plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
920be defined when the plugin is loaded.
921
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100922Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
923 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
924 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100925
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200926json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200927What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100928
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200929Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
930
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200931import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
932(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
933
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100934When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
935buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
936Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100937
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200938Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
939Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100940Another example in #1309
941
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100942When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
943when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
944
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100945Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
946#1330)
947
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200948Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
949
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100950Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
951
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100952GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
953g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
954timer expires.
955
956Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
957
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100958Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
959highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
960
9618 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
962 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
963
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100964Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
965Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
966
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200967Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
968key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
969 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
970 echo keytrans(xx)
971 <C-Home>
972
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100973Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
974(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
975Make a function to check for function-like type?
976
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200977Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
978(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
979
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100980Implement optional arguments for functions.
981 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
982 call Foo(12)
983 call Foo(12, all = 0)
984 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100985
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100986Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
987somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
988
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100989Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
990(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
991
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200992Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
993Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
994New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
995
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200996Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200997Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200998Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200999
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001000The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1001"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1002Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1003
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001004Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1005
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001006Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1007about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001008Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1009
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001010Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1011#1053) With patch, does it work?
1012
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001013":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001014vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1015
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001016Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001017E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001018Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001019
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001020Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1021Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1022
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001023Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001024Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001025
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001026"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1027(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1028
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001029Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1030(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001031Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001032
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001033'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1034
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001035Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1036
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001037When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1038Apr 23, #1653)
1039
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001040Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1041anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1042
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001043Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001044E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001045
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001046Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1047(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1048
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001049Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1050
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001051Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
1052
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001053Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
1054
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001055On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1056separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1057
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001058min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1059contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1060
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001061Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1062
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001063Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1064
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001065Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1066
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001067Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1068no longer support.
1069
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001070sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
10714#1038)
1072
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001073+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001074- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001075- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1076 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001077- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1078- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1079 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1080- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1081 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1082- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001083- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1084 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001085- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1086- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1087 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1088 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1089- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1090- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1091- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1092 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1093 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1094- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1095 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1096- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1097 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1098 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1099
1100Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001101- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1102 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1103 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1104 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001105- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1106 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001107- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1108 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1109- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1110 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1111- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1112 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1113 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1114 LC_CTYPE
1115- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1116 matches everywhere.
1117- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1118 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1119- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1120- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1121 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1122- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1123- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1124 2013 Dec 11)
1125- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1126 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1127- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1128- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1129 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1130- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1131- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1132- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1133- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1134 2015 Feb 7)
1135- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1136 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1137 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1138 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1139 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1140- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1141- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1142- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1143- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1144 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1145 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1146 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1147- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1148 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1149- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1150 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1151 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1152 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1153
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001154Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
1155
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001156Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1157#1350)
1158
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001159Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
11603. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1161Also see #1635.
1162
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001163Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001164Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1165use the current behavior.
1166Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001167
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001168When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1169command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1170
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001171Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
1172change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001173patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
1174(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01001175
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001176Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1177doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1178Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001179Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001180E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1181
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001182execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001183#1141)
1184
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001185cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1186
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001187:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1188
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001189Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1190
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001191When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1192synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1193
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001194Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1195Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001196
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001197Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1198(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1199
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001200ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1201Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001202
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001203Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1204
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001205Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001206(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001207
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001208Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1209Jul 25, #948)
1210
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001211Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1212names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1213Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1214the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1215
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001216Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
1217(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
1218Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
1219
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001220'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1221
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001222MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1223Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001224
1225Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1226Also for ":@.".
1227
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001228Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1229
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001230Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1231#1125
1232
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001233Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1234times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1235
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001236Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1237
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001238Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1239
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001240Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1241
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001242Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1243
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001244We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1245the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1246
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001247Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1248
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001249When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1250emoji_width table has only one entry.
1251
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001252It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1253Reject the value? #710.
1254
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001255When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1256Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1257
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001258Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +02001259Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001260
1261Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001262
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001263Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1264No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001265
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001266Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1267(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001268
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001269Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1270
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001271Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1272https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1273Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1274
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001275Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1276but the reference remains valid.
1277
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001278Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001279interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1280Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1281interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1282result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001283
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001284Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001285work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001286
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001287Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1288
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001289Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1290
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001291Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1292Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1293
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001294When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1295Apr 17) #762
1296
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001297exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1298Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1299
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001300Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1301'iskeyword' for syntax.
1302
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001303Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1304(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1305
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001306Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1307
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001308When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1309maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001310Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001311
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001312Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1313It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1314Add configure check?
1315Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1316Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1317Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1318
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001319Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1320Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1321
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001322Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
1323Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
1324Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
1325
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001326Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1327Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1328
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001329":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1330directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1331
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001332In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1333(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1334
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001335If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
13362016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001337
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001338Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1339(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1340
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001341Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001342Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001343
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001344Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1345
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001346When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1347restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1348Do not trigger the event?
1349
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001350Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1351changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1352and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001353Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1354Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
13556, 2nd message)
1356Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001357
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001358Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1359Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1360https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1361
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001362Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1363With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1364
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001365Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001366
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001367Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1368
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001369Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001370Only remembers one error.
1371
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001372GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001373
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001374Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1375(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001376
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001377Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1378github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001379 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001380Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001381
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001382Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001383
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001384Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001385comparing individual items.
1386Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1387Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1388Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1389equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1390
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001391Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1392
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001393MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1394wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1395
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001396Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1397specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1398
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001399Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1400(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1401
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001402Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001403inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001404
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001405Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1406(Luchr, #277)
1407
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001408Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001409'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1410before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001411
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001412C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1413and also line continuation after #include.
1414I can't recommend it though.
1415
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001416Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1417(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1418
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001419To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1420library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1421
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001422When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1423is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1424
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001425Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
142630)
1427
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001428MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1429(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1430
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001431The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
143224): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001433
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001434":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1435effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1436
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001437":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
14389)
1439
1440The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1441wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1442
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001443Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001444Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001445
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001446When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1447the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1448
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001449Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001450slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1451inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1452
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001453ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
14542014 Sep 11)
1455
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001456Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1457(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1458
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001459When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1460'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1461
1462Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001463(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001464Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
1465- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
1466 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
1467 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
1468- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
1469 covered by the above change.
1470So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +01001471same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001472Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001473
1474Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1475Work in progress.
1476
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001477Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1478when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1479
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001480Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1481Is this right?
1482
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001483Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1484(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1485Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1486
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001487Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1488Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001489
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001490Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1491Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1492
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001493Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1494
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001495When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1496filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1497initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1498
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001499Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1500
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001501Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1502OK to not block marks?
1503
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001504Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1505
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001506Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1507
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001508When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1509(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1510
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001511Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001512
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001513Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1514(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1515
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001516When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1517any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1518
1519Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001520
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001521Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001522
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001523Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1524(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1525
1526Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1527
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001528Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1529Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1530was already defined.
1531(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1532
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001533Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1534
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001535Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001536Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001537Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001538Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001539
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001540Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1541(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1542
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001543Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1544(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1545
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001546Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1547
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001548When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1549these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1550window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1551
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001552Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1553should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1554history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1555Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1556
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001557"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1558Jun 8)
1559
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001560Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1561insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1562
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001563No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1564
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001565Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1566(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1567Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1568arguments.
1569
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001570Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1571
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001572Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001573
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001574Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
15750x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1576New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1577compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1578
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001579Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1580a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1581
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001582xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1583buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1584Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001585Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001586Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001587Also see issue #609.
1588We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001589
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001590Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1591right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001592its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001593
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001594Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1595
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001596This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1597 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1598This neither: (ZyX)
1599 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1600
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001601'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1602Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1603from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001604
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001605Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
16062014 Jun 8)
1607
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001608Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001609Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001610Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1611Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1612User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001613- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1614 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1615 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001616- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1617- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1618 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1619 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1620 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1621 on vim.org.
1622- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1623 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1624- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1625- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1626- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1627- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1628Implementation:
1629- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1630 plugin separate.
1631- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1632 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1633 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1634- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1635 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1636- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1637 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1638 installing.
1639Out of scope:
1640- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1641- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1642 useful).
1643
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001644Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1645normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001646
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001647When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1648menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1649
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001650Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1651(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1652
1653":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1654various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001655
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001656Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001657(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1658
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001659VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1660instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1661
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001662Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001663Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001664
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001665Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001666command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001667
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001668Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1669
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001670Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1671highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001672
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001673The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1674For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1675
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001676Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001677possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001678
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001679Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001680
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001681Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1682
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010016837 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1684 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1685 "lucida_console:h8").
1686Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1687
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001688:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1689
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001690Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1691
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001692Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1693
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001694When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1695(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1696
1697Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001698Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001699
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001700GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1701(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1702
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001703Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1704registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1705
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001706Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1707
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001708The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1709(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1710Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1711
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001712The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1713- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1714- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1715
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001716Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1717Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1718reliably?
1719
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001720Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1721(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1722
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001723Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1724(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1725
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001726Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17272013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001728
1729Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1730
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001731Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
17325)
1733
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001734Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1735carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1736
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001737Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1738highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1739
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001740Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001741
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001742Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200174328) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001744
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001745Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1746
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001747Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1748
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001749- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1750 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1751Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001752
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001753Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001754
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001755In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1756process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1757a reboot.
1758
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001759patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1760
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001761Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1762not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001763
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001764Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1765Or use expand('<sid>')?
1766
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001767Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1768
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001769Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1770
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001771b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
17727)
1773
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001774Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1775compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1776
1777Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1778Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1779vim.bindeval().
1780
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001781Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
17822012 Aug 4)
1783
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001784Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1785(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1786
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001787Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1788But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1789
1790Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1791Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1792Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001793
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001794Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1795loading all files.
1796
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001797MS-Windows resizing problems:
1798- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1799 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1800- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1801 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1802 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001803
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001804'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001805
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001806Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001807of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1808
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001809The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1810Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1811But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001812
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001813When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1814is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1815
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001816URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001817- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001818- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1819 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1820
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001821Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1822(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1823Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1824
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001825Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001826New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001827
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001828When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1829for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1830Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001831
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001832Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1833
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001834Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1835
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001836Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1837Apr 18)
1838
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001839Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1840And one for gui_x11.txt.
1841
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001842":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1843finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1844Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1845
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001846Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1847
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001848Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1849
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001850Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1851they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1852
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001853Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1854
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001855Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1856Nov 20)
1857
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001858Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001859Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001860
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001861`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001862(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1863
1864Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1865
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001866BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1867Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1868
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001869Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1870Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1871
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001872Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1873
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001874On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
18752012 Jun 19)
1876
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001877'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1878'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1879Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001880Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001881
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001882With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1883(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1884need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1885
1886Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1887only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
188821, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1889
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001890'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1891highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1892
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001893Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1894New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1895
1896Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1897Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1898
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001899Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1900Jan 19)
1901
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001902Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1903discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1904meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001905
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001906"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001907Oct 26)
1908
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001909Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1910
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001911With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1912register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001913
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001914Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1915
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001916When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1917(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1918
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001919When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1920then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1921from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1922
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001923Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1924":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
192515)
1926
1927Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1928
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001929BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1930cleared. See test64.
1931
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001932Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001933effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001934Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001935https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001936
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001937On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
193864 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1939right type.
1940
1941string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1942(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1943
1944When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1945(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001946When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1947following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1948(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001949
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001950When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1951doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1952
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001953Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1954
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001955maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1956mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1957
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001958Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1959(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1960
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001961When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1962indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1963the help file.
1964
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001965After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1966Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1967
1968Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1969
1970"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1971
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001972Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1973
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001974Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001975
1976Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
19772010 Dec 18)
1978
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001979With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1980number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1981Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1982
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001983Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1984Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1985
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020019868 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1987Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1988
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001989Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1990one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1991the match scrolls into view.
1992
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020019937 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1994Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1995Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1996
19979 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1998 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1999Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2000
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002001Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2002Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2003
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002004In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2005or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2006sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2007
2008GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2009doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2010
2011GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2012
2013Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2014Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2015
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002016Wish for NetBeans commands:
2017 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2018
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002019Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2020
20217.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2022there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2023do?
2024
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002025Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
202622)
2027
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002028New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2029- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002030- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002031 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2032
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002033"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20342011 Feb 27)
2035
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002036Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2037^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2038
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002039When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2040exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20419) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2042
2043g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2044the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2045
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002046Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2047crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2048
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002049Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2050number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2051
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002052Regexp engine performance:
2053- Profiling:
2054 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2055 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2056 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2057 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2058 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2059 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2060- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2061- Performance tests:
2062 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2063 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2064 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2065 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2066 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2067 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2068 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2069 'hlsearch'.
2070 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2071 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2072 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2073 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2074
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002075Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2076Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2077
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002078'beval' option should be global-local.
2079
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002080Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002081
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002082setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002083
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002084With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
20852010 Oct 24)
2086
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002087Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2088
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002089When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2090Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2091
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002092":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2093
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002094'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2095
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002096C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2097checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2098Issue 46.
2099
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002100Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2101
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002102Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2103gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2104
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002105":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2106accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2107
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002108Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2109setwinvar().
2110
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002111Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002112
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002113When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2114instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2115
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002116Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2117Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2118Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002119
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002120Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2121back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2122
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002123Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002124Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2125
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002126CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2127the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2128FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2129
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002130Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2131Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2132
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002133Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2134Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2135
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01002136I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
2137Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
2138an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002139
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002140Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2141
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002142Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2143non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002144
2145iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2146Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2147or replace with a character and continue?
2148
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002149Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2150Requires configure check for localtime().
2151Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2152
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002153Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2154Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2155
2156Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2157
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002158Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2159Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2160path.
2161
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002162Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002163Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002164
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002165'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2166
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002167":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2168like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2169
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002170Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2171https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002172
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002173Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
21742010 Nov 5)
2175
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002176Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002177Jan 7)
2178
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002179Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2180
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002181With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2182entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2183Feb 12)
2184
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002185Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2186characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2187
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002188Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2189
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002190Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2191 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2192
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002193Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2194
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002195When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2196Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2197
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002198When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2199not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2200string value.
2201
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002202For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002203line argument -noregister.
2204
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002205When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2206missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2207
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002208When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2209doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002210
2211Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2212(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2213Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2214There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2215Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2216
2217":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2218highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2219to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2220
2221Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2222Probably needs a bit of work.
2223
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002224List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002225Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2226
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002227Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2228
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002229Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2230
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002231Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2232Sep 1)
2233
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002234Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2235
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002236Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2237on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2238
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002239Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22402009 Jul 18)
2241
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002242Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2243window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2244Needs more work.
2245
2246Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2247
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002248When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2249few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2250
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002251'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002252(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2253
2254Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2255J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2256
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002257When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2258for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2259
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002260Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2261
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002262":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2263because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2264ex_docmd.c.
2265
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002266Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002267Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2268
2269string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2270for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2271
2272Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2273
2274'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
227520)
2276
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002277Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
22782009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2279
2280Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2281
2282Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2283SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2284
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002285When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2286indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2287(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2288
2289Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2290are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2291Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2292Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2293that doesn't have a window.
2294
2295When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2296doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2297
2298getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2299displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2300
2301":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2302
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002303There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2304was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2305perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2306
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002307Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2308
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002309Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2310command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2311
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002312Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2313does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2314
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002315opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2316height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002317very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002318
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002319Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2320(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2321
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002322Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002323(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2324
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002325Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2326char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2327
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002328Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2329Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2330
2331This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2332
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002333Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2334messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2335es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
23362009 Jan 26)
2337
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002338When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002339in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2340Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2341
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002342Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2343a modeline.
2344
2345Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2346Sergey Khorev)
2347
2348Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2349part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002350
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002351After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2352correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2353
2354Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2355(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2356
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002357shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002358'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2359Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2360unix-like shell?
2361
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002362Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2363register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2364(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2365
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002366Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2367Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2368
2369Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2370make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2371
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002372When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2373still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2374
2375"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2376(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2377
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002378Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2379that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2380ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2381Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2382
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002383MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2384doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2385probably causes this.
2386
2387'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020023882009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002389
2390Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2391 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2392 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2393(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2394
2395Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2396":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2397option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2398is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002399
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002400":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2401first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002402Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002403
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002404Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2405laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2406Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002407
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002408Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2409anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2410
2411On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2412doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2413Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2414Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2415
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002416When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2417'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2418fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2419the buffer to be unmodified.
2420Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2421another look at it.
2422
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002423c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2424(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2425
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002426You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2427error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2428Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2429at the other match for 0xBF.
2430
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002431When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2432argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2433
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002434Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2435backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2436
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002437When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2438line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2439
2440Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2441position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2442
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002443After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2444(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002445command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002446
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002447":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2448Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2449
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002450When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2451either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2452put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2453
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002454Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2455Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2456Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2457Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2458(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2459
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002460Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2461
2462ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002463
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002464Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2465(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2466escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2467an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002468This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2469July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002470Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2471work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2472
2473When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
247431)
2475
2476Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2477work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2478Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002479
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002480Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2481multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2482(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2483
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002484Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
24852008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002486Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002487
2488Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2489Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2490'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2491
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002492Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2493Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2494
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002495Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2496Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2497
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020024988 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2499 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2500 several).
2501 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2502 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2503 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2504Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2505
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002506The utf class table is missing some entries:
2507 0x2212, minus sign
2508 0x2217, star
2509 0x2500, bar
2510 0x26ab, circle
2511
2512Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2513line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2514
2515GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2516Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2517
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002518Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2519try the Cocoa version.
2520
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002521Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2522changed or the window is resized.
2523
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002524GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2525the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2526
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002527Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2528Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002529
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002530Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
25311) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2532
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002533C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2534with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2535Try to reproduce at work.
2536
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002537Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2538Is there a way to list all the files first?
2539
2540When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2541result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
254216)
2543
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002544Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2545(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2546
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002547Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2548Await response to question to make the register writable.
2549
2550Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
25511)
2552
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002553In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2554each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2555
2556try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2557
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002558try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2559
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002560":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2561Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2562
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002563Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2564
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002565Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2566Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2567
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002568Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2569Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2570Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002571
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002572When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2573and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2574
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002575Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2576 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2577
2578New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2579
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002580":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2581a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2582
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002583'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2584Likonen, March 19)
2585
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002586Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2587other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2588
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002589The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2590appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2591matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2592
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002593When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2594character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2595'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2596(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2597
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002598Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2599Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002600
2601More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2602
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002603Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2604http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2605
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002606Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2607back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2608Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002609
2610Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2611No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2612
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002613Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2614terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002615
2616Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2617
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002618Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2619but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2620that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002621
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002622Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2623Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2624
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002625Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2626popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2627size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2628This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2629
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002630When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2631it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2632
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002633Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2634then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2635files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002636Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2637indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2638":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002639in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2640quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002641Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002642
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002643When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2644parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2645neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2646particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2647Jun 3)
2648However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2649the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002650
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002651A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2652Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2653
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002654Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2655Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2656
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002657Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2658switch list is noticed:
2659 switch (i)
2660 {
2661 case 1:
2662 foobar:
2663 }
2664
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002665Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2666
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002667Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2668with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2669go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2670moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2671
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002672Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002673GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002674Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2675argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2676(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2677
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002678Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2679(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2680
2681Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2682makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2683.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002684 # uninstall key: vim8.1*
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002685
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002686Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
26872007 Feb 8)
2688
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002689Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2690set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002691
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002692Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2693
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002694Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2695Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2696New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2697patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2698
2699Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2700Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2701
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002702Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
27032007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002704Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002705
2706Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002707label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2708
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002709Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2710with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2711Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002712
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002713Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2714
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002715Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2716Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2717only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2718
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002719Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2720Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002721Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002722properly?
2723
2724Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
27252007 Jun 21)
2726
2727When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2728Jun 18)
2729
2730If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2731
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002732Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2733windows. (Adam George)
2734
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002735F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2736modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2737K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002738
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002739In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2740the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2741
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002742C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2743
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002744":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2745
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002746When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002747error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002748
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002749GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002750use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2751
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002752Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2753if_ruby.c.
2754
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002755":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2756
2757The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2758it in keep_msg?
2759
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002760Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002761error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002762name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2763
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002764Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2765longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002766
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002767Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2768Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2769Also for ":w" without a file name.
2770The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002771
2772"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2773Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2774
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002775VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2776directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2777(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2778
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002779VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2780
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002781input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2782name?
2783
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002784Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2785
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002786When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2787(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2788Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2789will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2790
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002791gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2792This also fails with --remote.
2793
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002794When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
27952008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2796all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2797
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002798aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2799
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002800When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2801(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2802
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002803Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2804the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2805
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002806GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2807
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002808Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2809superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2810
2811Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2812character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2813
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002814Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2815Jun 5)
2816
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002817Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
28182008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2819Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2820
2821In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2822but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2823Jul 22)
2824
2825There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2826
2827Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2828":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2829somehow? Or use a new function.
2830
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002831Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2832
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002833Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2834moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2835that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2836
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002837The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2838
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002839When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002840cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2841the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2842
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002843These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2844 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2845 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2846 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2847
2848Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2849partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2850
2851In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2852buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2853reload it then?
2854
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002855For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2856
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002857Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2858only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2859
2860Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2861tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2862doesn't contain other directories.
2863
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002864Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2865Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2866
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002867Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2868 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2869 set background=dark
2870This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2871color is, not reset it.
2872
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002873Linux distributions:
2874- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2875 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2876 xfree-xterm".
2877- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2878
2879Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2880start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2881show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2882middle?
2883
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002884Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2885
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002886When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2887current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2888the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2889
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002890When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2891Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2892
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002893Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2894 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2895 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2896 - getting colors in xterm
2897 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2898
2899Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2900Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2901
2902Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2903
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002904A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2905Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2906
2907Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2908Dara, 2006 June 21)
2909
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002910Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2911number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2912
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002913After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2914the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2915
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002916Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002917
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002918Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2919Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2920
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002921Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010029222008 Sep 29)
2923
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002924In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2925check the result of has("patch13").
2926
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002927Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2928restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2929
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002930Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2931and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2932
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002933Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2934put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2935
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002936Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2937resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2938
2939In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2940can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2941
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002942GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2943maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2944doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002945Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2946visible.
2947
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002948When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2949differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002950
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002951The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2952be only one.
2953
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002954Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002955"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2956name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2957Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002958
2959Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2960(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2961
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002962Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2963as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2964
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002965Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
296623)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002967
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002968":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2969tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2970Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002971
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002972When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2973text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2974latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2975
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002976Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2977no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2978
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002979In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2980VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
29812007 Oct 16)
2982
2983TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2984Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2985
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002986Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002987
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002988When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2989typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2990Sep 3, 11)
2991
2992When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2993respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2994the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2995what happens for the GUI.
2996
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002997":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2998this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2999
3000When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3001Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3002restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3003
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003004Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
30052010 Jun 30)
3006
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003007Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3008'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3009(Kartik Agaram)
3010
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003011
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003012Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003013- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3014 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3015- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3016 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3017 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3018- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3019 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3020 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003021- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3022- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003023
3024
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003025More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003026- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3027 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003028- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003029- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3030 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003031- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3032- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3033- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3034 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3035 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003036- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003037- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3038 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3039- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3040 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3041- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3042 21)
3043- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3044 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3045- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3046 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003047- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3048 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003049- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3050 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3051 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3052 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3053 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003054- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003055
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003056Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000030579 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3058 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3059 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3060 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3061 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3062 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3063 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3064 (Alan Schmitt)
3065 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003066 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3067 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000030689 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003069 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030708 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030717 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3072 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3073 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030748 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003075 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020030767 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003077 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3078- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3079 for multi-byte characters.
3080- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3081- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3082 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3083 been given values.
3084 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
30858 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003086 with an ESC sequence.
3087 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
3088 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
3089 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030907 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3091 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3092- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3093 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3094 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
30958 Add functions:
3096 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3097 Update 2004 Sep 10
3098 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3099 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003100 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003101 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3102 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3103 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3104 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3105 (2003 May 13)
3106 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3107 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003108 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3109 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003110 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3111 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3112 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031137 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3114 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031157 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3116 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000031178 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3118 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031197 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
31208 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3121 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
31227 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3123 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031247 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3125- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3126 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3127 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003128- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3129 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3130- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3131
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003132Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3133- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3134 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3135
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003136Quickfix/Location List:
3137- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3138 #2999)
3139- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3140 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3141 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3142 the quickfix buffer?
3143- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3144 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3145- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3146 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3147- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3148 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3149 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3150- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3151 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3152- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3153- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3154 2007 Jan 1)
3155- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3156 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3157- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3158 errors. How do we get the rest?
31598 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3160 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3161 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3162 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
31637 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3164 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003165
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003166Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003167- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3168 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031698 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3170 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3171 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3172 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3173 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3174 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031758 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3176 make Vim exit.
31777 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3178 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3179 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
31808 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3181 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3182 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
31836 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3184 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3185 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
31868 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3187 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3188 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3189 names in one buffer???
3190 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3191 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3192 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
31937 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3194 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3195 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003196 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3197 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031987 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3199 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32007 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
32017 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032027 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3203 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3204 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3205 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
32067 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
32077 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
32087 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3209 to the match with the tag? Option?
32107 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
32117 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3212 (Sayre).
32137 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3214 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032157 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3216 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3217 match. Nvi can do it too.
32187 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3219 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3220 line 1\ line 2\\
3221 line 2\ line 3\\
3222 . line4/
32236 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3224 the way the shell is started?
32256 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3226 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3227
3228
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003229GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032309 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032318 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3232 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3233 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000032348 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3235 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3236 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032379 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3238 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3239 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3240 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003241- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3242 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3243 blocked for now.
3244
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003245
3246Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003247- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3248 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032498 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3250 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3251 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032526 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3253 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032548 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3255 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3256 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032577 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3258 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3259 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032607 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3261 2004 May 9)
32628 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3263 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3264 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3265 MS-Windows 98?
3266 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3267 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3268 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3269 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032708 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3271 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3272 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3273 doesn't work properly.
32748 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3275 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3276 appears in the right position. (Webb)
32779 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3278 button doesn't give popup menu.
3279 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3280 selection.
3281 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3282 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3283 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
32848 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3285 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3286 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3287 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
32888 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3289 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3290 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032917 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
3292 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
3293 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
32947 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3295 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003296 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032977 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3298 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032996 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
33008 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3301 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3302 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33038 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3304 know which keyboard is being used?
33057 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3306 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3307 area (Koloseike).
33088 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3309 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3310 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3311 the font name).
3312
3313
3314Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033156 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3316 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3317 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3318 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3319 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033209 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3321 required and it's missing?
33228 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3323 wrong.
33249 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3325 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033269 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003327 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3328 flag.
33298 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3330 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3331 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
33328 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
33336 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3334 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3335 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3336 the tooltips work though...
33377 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3338 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
33398 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3340 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3341 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3342
3343
3344Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010033459 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3346 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033479 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3348 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3349 through files.
33507 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3351 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33524 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3353 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3354 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3355 problem during a refresh.
33565 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3357 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3358 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3359 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3360 colors as it should.
3361 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3362 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3363
3364
3365Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003366- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033677 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3368 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033698 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3370 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3371 (Phillipps)
3372
3373
3374GUI:
33759 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3376 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
33779 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003378 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003379 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
33809 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3381 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
33828 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3383 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
33848 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3385 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3386 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
33878 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3388 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3389 of where it is processing the output.
3390 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
33918 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3392 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010033938 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000033948 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3395 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3396 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020033978 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033988 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3399 browse().
34008 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3401 use that code? Or use console dialog.
34028 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3403 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034047 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3405 - regexp on/off
3406 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3407 when all buffers/directory is used:
3408 - filter for file name
3409 when directory is used:
3410 - subdirectory on/off
3411 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034128 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3413 to avoid problems.
34148 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3415 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3416 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
34178 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3418 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3419 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
34208 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3421 up. Set erase character somehow?
34228 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3423 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3424 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3425 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
34268 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
34277 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3428 visible.
34297 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3430 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
34317 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3432 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
34338 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3434 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
34358 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3436 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3437 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3438 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3439- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
34404 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3441 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3442 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3443
3444
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003445Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034468 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3447 a good fallback, thus use:
3448 $HOME
3449 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3450 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3451 $USERPROFILE
3452 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3453 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3454 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3455 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034568 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3457 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
34588 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3459 Should work like in the GUI version.
34608 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3461 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
34628 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3463 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
34648 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3465 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3466 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034678 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3468 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3469 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3470
3471
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003472Win32 console:
34739 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3474 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3475 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3476 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3477 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3478 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3479 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3480 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3481 and the file is not saved.
3482 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3483 long name.
34848 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3485 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
34867 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3487 besides the console.
34888 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
34899 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3490 <C-S-i>?
34919 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3492 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
34938 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3494 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003495
3496
3497Amiga:
34988 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3499 sequences.
35009 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3501 backslashes in result.
35028 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3503 all options, using white space separation.
3504
3505
3506Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003507- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035087 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3509 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3510 (Jack)
3511 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035128 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3513 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035148 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
35158 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
35169 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3517 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035189 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003519
3520
3521"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003522- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3523 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003524- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3525 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003526- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3527 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3528 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3529 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3530 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3531 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3532 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000035339 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3534 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000035359 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003536 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3537 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035388 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3539 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3540 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003541 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035427 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3543 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
35448 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3545 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3546 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035477 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3548 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003549- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3550 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035518 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3552 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3553 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3554 using the horizontal scrollbar.
35557 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3556 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3557 invocations belong together.
35588 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3559 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
35608 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3561 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3562 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003563 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035648 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3565 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3566 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035678 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3568 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035697 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3570 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3571 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3572 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035737 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3574 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3575 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
35767 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3577 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3578 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
35797 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3580 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035817 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3582 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035839 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3584 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3585 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3586 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3587 script can be called.
35888 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3589 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3590 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035918 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3592 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000035938 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003594 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3595 configurable?
35968 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035978 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3598 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035998 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3600 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036018 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3602 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036039 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3604 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3605 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036067 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036078 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3608 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3609 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000036108 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3611 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003612 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3613 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036148 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3615 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
36169 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3617 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3618 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003619 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036207 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3621 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036227 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3623 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3624 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3625 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036268 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003627 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3628 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3629 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3630 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003631 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3632 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003633 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003634 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003635 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3636 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3637 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3638 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3639 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036408 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3641 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
36428 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3643 in lines that don't extend into the block?
36448 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3645 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3646 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
36478 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3648 'linebreak'.
36498 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3650 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3651 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036529 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3653 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3654 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3655 'magic' in history. (Margo)
36569 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3657 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036589 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
36599 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3660 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3661 cause another redraw, etc.
36628 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3663 must escape special characters in the pattern.
36648 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3665 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3666 ":w!!" for that.
3667 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3668 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003669 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036707 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3671 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3672 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3673 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3674 clipboard)
36757 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3676 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3677 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000036786 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3679 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3680 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036818 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3682 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
36838 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3684 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3685 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000036868 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036878 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3688 (e.g., ":w").
36898 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3690 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036918 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3692 script in do_cmdline().
36938 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3694 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3695 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3696 changes.
36978 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3698 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
36998 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3700 check for file marks. This can be slow.
37017 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3702 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3703 needed.
3704 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
37058 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3706 to skip catch_signals()?
37079 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3708 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3709 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3710 text?
37118 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3712 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37138 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3714 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
37159 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3716 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3717 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3718 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3719 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
37207 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3721 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3722 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3723 in the list?
37248 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3725 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3726 instead of on button down.
37278 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
37289 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3729 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003730 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3731 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037328 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3733 character is typed.
37348 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3735 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
37368 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3737 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
37388 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3739 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3740 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3741 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3742 cygwin bash.
37437 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3744 Remember flags for backreferences.
37457 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3746 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
37477 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3748 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
37498 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3750 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
37517 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3752 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037537 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3754 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3755 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
37567 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3757 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
37588 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3759 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3760 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
37617 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3762 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003763
3764
3765I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
37669 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3767 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3768 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003769
3770
3771Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003772- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3773 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3774 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003775- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3776 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3777 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3778 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3779 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3780 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003781 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003782- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3783 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003784 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003785 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3786 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3787 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003788- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3789 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3790 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3791 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3792 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3793- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3794 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3795 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3796- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3797 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003798- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003799- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3800 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3801 character gets the highlighting.
3802- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3803 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3804- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3805 (Jennings)
3806- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003807- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003808- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003809 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003810- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3811 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3812 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3813- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3814 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3815 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3816 (Benzinger).
3817- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3818 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3819 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3820- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3821 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3822- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3823 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3824- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3825 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3826 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3827 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3828 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3829 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3830- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3831 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3832 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003833- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3834 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3835 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003836- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3837 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3838 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3839- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3840 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3841- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3842 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003843- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3844 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3845- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3846 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3847 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3848 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3849 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3850- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3851 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3852 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3853- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3854 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3855 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003856- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3857 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 +00003858- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3859 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3860 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3861 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3862 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3863- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3864 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3865
3866--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3867 *extensions-improvements*
3868
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003869Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3870- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3871 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3872 calling a function.
3873 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3874 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003875- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3876 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003877 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003878- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3879 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3880 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3881 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3882 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3883 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003884 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003885- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3886 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3887 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003888- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3889 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000038908 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3891 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3892 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3893 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003894- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3895 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003896
3897
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003898Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038998 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3900 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039018 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3902 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039038 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3904 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039058 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039069 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3907 - change to cursor position and curswant
3908 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3909 - how it works for folded lines
3910 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39119 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3912 work too.
39138 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3914 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3915 text.
39168 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
39177 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3918 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
39197 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3920 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003921 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003922- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3923
3924
3925Help:
3926- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3927 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3928- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3929 to the other matches.
3930- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003931- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3932 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3933 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3934 default contents.
3935- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3936 height for the help window (and other windows).
3937- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3938- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3939- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3940
3941
3942User Friendlier:
39438 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3944 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3945 Briscoe)
39468 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
39478 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3948 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3949 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
39508 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3951 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3952- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3953 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003954- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
39559 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3956 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3957 item?).
3958 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039598 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000039607 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3961 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3962 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000039638 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3964 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3965 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3966 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003967
3968
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003969Tab pages:
39709 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039717 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3972 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039738 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000039748 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039757 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039767 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003977 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039788 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3979 tab pages.
39807 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3981
3982
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003983Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003984- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3985 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3986- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3987 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3988 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3989- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3990 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003991- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3992 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3993 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003994- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3995 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3996 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003997- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3998 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003999- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004000 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4001 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040028 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4003 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40048 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4005 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40068 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4007 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004008 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004009 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4010 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4011 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4012 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004013- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4014 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004015- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004016- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4017 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004018- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004019 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004020- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004021 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004022- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4023 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004024- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4025 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4026- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004027 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004028 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4029 in the affix file separately.
4030 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004031 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004032 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4033 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4034 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4035- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4036 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4037 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4038 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4039 Alternative:
4040 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4041 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4042 affix which is required.
4043- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004044 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004045- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4046 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4047 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004048- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4049 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004050- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4051 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4052- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040538 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4054 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4055 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4056 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004057- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4058 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4059 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4060 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040618 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4062 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040638 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
40648 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4065 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040667 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
40678 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4068 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4069 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4070 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004071
4072
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004073Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020040749 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4075 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020040768 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004077 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004078
4079Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004080 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4081 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040828 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4083 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020040848 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4085 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040868 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4087 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4088 user aware of this?
40898 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4090 commands skip over a closed fold.
40918 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
40928 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040937 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004094- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4095 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4096 missing line goes unnoticed.
4097 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004098- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4099 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4100 smoother?
4101- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4102 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004103- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4104 file can contain:
4105 args version.c main.c
4106 edit version.c
4107 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004108- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004109- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4110 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004111- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4112 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004113- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4114 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004115- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004116
4117Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004118- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4119 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4120 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4121 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041229 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4123 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4124 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4125 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041269 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4127 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4128 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041298 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4130 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4131 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4132 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4133 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4134 item.
41358 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004136 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4137 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041388 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4139 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041408 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4141 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4142 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041437 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4144 so that the user can fix the problem.
41458 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4146 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041479 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
41488 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041498 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
41508 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041517 Searching and composing characters:
4152 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004153 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4154 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041558 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
41568 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
41578 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4158 characters.
41598 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
41608 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4161 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
41627 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4163 'display' option to specify this.
41647 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4165 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4166- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4167 fontselector somehow.
4168- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4169 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4170- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4171 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4172- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4173 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4174 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4175 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4176 if a font exists?
4177- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004178 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004179- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4180 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004181- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4182 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4183 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4184 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004185- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4186 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004187 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004188- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4189 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4190 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4191 But it's very complicated...
4192
4193
4194Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000041957 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004196- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4197- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4198 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004199- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4200 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004201- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4202- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4203 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004204- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4205 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004206- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4207 units as for the margins.
4208- Support right-to-left text?
42098 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4210 color.
4211
4212
4213Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042148 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4215 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
42168 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4217 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
42188 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4219 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000042207 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4221 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042228 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4223 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4224 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042257 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4226 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4227 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042288 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
42299 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4230 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042317 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4232 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000042337 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4234 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042358 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4236 change this for each release.
42378 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4238 pattern, but not in the body.
42398 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4240 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4241 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042428 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010042438 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004244 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4245 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042468 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4247 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
42488 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4249 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004250 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042518 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4252 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4253 used.
42548 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4255 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
42568 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4257 re-insert the [] if possible.
42588 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4259 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000042608 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4261 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4262 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4263 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4264 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042658 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4266 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
42678 Support for deleting syntax items:
4268 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4269 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4270 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
42718 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4272 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4273 a '<'. (Fleiner)
42747 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4275 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4276 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
42777 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4278 detected.
42798 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004280 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042818 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4282 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042838 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
42848 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
42857 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4286 ":mkvimrc".
42878 Improve c.vim:
4288 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4289 "c_strict_ansi".
4290 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
42918 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4292 current line while in Insert mode.
42938 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4294 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
42958 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4296 display position.
42978 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4298 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4299 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43008 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4301 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4302 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043037 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4304 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4305 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4306 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4307 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043087 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4309 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4310 E.g. for this html:
4311 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043127 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43137 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4314 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043158 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
43168 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043177 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4318 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4319 completion?
43208 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4321 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
43227 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4323 select one of the sets.
43248 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4325 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4326 2, etc.
43278 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4328 highlighting (for "." command).
43298 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4330 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
43318 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
43327 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4333 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
43346 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4335 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4336- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4337 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4338- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004339- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4340 (for comment blocks).
4341- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4342 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4343 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4344 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4345 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4346 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4347 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4348 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4349 (Campbell)
4350 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4351 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
43527 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4353 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
43547 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4355 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4356 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
43577 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4358 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4359 messages. And external commands?
43608 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4361 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
43627 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4363 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4364
4365
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004366Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043678 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4368 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004369 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000043707 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4371 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4372 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043738 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4374 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004375- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020043768 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4377 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4378 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4379 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4380 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4381 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000043827 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4383 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043848 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010043858 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4386 can be the plugin name.
4387 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4388 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043897 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4390 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4391 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4392 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4393 autocommand.
4394 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4395 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4396 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4397 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043987 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4399 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044006 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4401 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044028 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004403 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4404 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004405 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4406 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4407 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004408 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4409 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4410 3 2002
4411 Only add this when also implemented for
4412 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4413 be used.
4414 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004415 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4416 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4417 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4418 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4419 File.Open..." argument.
4420 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4421 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4422 with properties instead.
4423 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4424 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4425 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004426 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004427 crypt() encrypt string
4428 decrypt() decrypt string
4429 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4430 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004431 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004432 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004433 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004434 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004435 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004436 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4437 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004438 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4439 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004440 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004441 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4442 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4443 to allow the library to execute a command or
4444 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044457 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4446 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
44478 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4448 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044498 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4450 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044518 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020044529 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004453 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
44546 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044558 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4456 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044578 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4458 option or environment variable.
44598 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044608 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004461 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044627 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4463 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044648 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4465 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
44668 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
44678 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4468 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4469 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4470 charwise({expr}).
44717 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4472 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4473 buffer for this?
4474 result = scratch(string, command)
4475 result = apply(string, command)
4476 result = execute(string, command)
4477 "command" would use <> notation.
4478 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
44797 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004480
4481
4482Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000044836 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4484 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4485 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4486 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4487 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4488 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4489 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004490
4491
4492Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044937 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4494 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020044957 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4496 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4497 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4498 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044998 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4500 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4501 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4502 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004503 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045048 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45059 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45068 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45077 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4508 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45098 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4510 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4511 when starting up in a color terminal.
45128 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4513 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045148 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4515 function be improved?
45168 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4517 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4518 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4519 this be improved?
45208 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4521 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000045227 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4523 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045247 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4525 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
45267 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4527 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045287 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4529 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4530 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4531 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4532 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4533 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4534 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045358 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4536 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4537 using strcmp() too often?
45387 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4539 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4540 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4541 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4542 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4543 the two blocks to the memfile block.
45447 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4545 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4546 with an argument that can be messed with.
4547 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4548 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
45497 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4550- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
45518 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4552 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4553- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4554 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4555- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4556- Do profiling on:
4557 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004558 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4559 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4560 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4561 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4562 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4563 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004564 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045657 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4566 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4567 changed).
4568 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4569 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4570- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4571- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4572 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4573- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4574 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4575 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004576- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4577- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4578 cursor is right of the screen.
45798 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4580 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4581
4582
4583Code size:
45848 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4585- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4586 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
45878 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
45888 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4589 it.
45907 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4591 left out.
45928 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4593 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010045948 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004595
4596
4597Messages:
45988 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4599 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46008 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4601 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46028 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4603 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004604- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4605 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4606- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046078 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4608 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046099 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4610 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4611 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4612 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4613 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046148 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4615 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46168 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4617 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4618 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4619 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4620 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4621 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004622- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004623 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046248 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4625 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4626 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4627 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4628 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4629 error messages, printing text, etc.
46308 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4631 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4632 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4633
4634
4635Screen updating:
46367 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4637 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4638 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4639- screen_line():
4640 - insert/delete character stuff.
4641 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4642- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4643 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4644- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4645 waiting for a character.
46468 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4647 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4648 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004649
4650Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020046518 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046526 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4653- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4654 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4655 windows.
46567 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4657 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4658 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4659- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4660 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4661 (Goldfarb)
4662- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4663 bound windows.
4664- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4665 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004666- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004667- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4668 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4669 of lines but not with a single line).
4670
4671
4672Autoconf:
46738 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
46748 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4675 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4676- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4677 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4678- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4679- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4680- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4681
4682
4683Perl interface:
46848 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046857 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
46867 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
46876 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4688
4689
4690Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020046918 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4692 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046936 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4694 :libload internal-name libname
4695 :libunload internal-name
4696 :liblist
4697 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4698 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4699 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47006 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4701
4702
4703Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047049 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4705 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4706 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4707 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4708 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047098 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4710 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4711 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004712 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004713 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047147 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4715 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4716 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047178 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47188 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4719 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047207 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4721 window for each tag.
47227 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
47237 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4724 bottom" search message.
47257 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4726 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4727 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004728- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4729- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004730- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4731 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4732 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047337 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4734 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4735 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4736 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
47377 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4738 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4739 :tagargs clear
4740 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4741 matching).
47427 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4743 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4744 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4745 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
47467 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4747 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
47487 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4749 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4750 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004751
4752
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004753Win32 GUI:
47548 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4755 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047567 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4757 (Mike McCollister)
47588 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4759 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4760 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4761 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4762 common part of the path.
47638 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
47648 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4765 gettext and menus work.
47668 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4767 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004768 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004769 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
47708 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4771 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
47728 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4773 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
47747 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4775 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
47767 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
47777 <Esc> should close a dialog.
47787 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4779 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4780 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4781 prompts.
47827 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4783 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4784 the file added into an already running Vim.
47857 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4786 functions to find the window title.
4787
4788
4789GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020047908 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004791- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4792 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
47937 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
47948 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
47956 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
47968 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4797 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
47989 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
47997 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48008 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4801 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48028 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4803 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4804 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48058 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4806 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48078 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4808 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4809 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4810 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048117 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48128 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4813 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048147 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4815 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4816 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048178 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48188 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004819 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048208 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48218 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48228 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4823 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4824 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
48257 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4826 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4827 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
48287 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4829 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
48307 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4831 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4832 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4833 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048347 Should support multi-column menus.
4835- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4836 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4837- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
48388 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
48396 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4840 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
48417 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
48427 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4843 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4844 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
48457 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
48468 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4847 name can be chosen free.
48487 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4849 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
48506 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4851 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4852 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4853 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4854 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4855 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4856 things.
48577 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4858 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048597 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004860 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004861- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4862 where it was started from?
48637 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4864
4865
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004866Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020048679 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4868 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004869- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048708 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4871 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4872 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4873 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
48748 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4875 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000048767 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4877 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4878 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4879 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000048807 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048818 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4882 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048838 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4884 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4885 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048867 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4887 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4888 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048898 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4890 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4891 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048928 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4893 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048948 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048956 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4896 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048977 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048987 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004899 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4900 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4901 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049025 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4903 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4904 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49057 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4906 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4907 file.
49088 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4909 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4910 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004911- Add events to autocommands:
4912 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004913 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004914 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4915 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004916 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004917 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004918 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4919 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4920 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4921 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004922 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004923 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4924 the char.
4925 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4926 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4927 file from CVS).
4928 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4929 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4930 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4931 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4932 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4933 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004934 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4935 changes.
4936 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4937 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004938- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004939 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004940 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004941 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4942 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4943 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4944 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4945 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4946
4947
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004948Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004949- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4950 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004951- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4952 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4953 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4954 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4955 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004956- Ideas from others:
4957 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4958 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4959 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4960 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4961 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4962 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4963 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4964 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4965 Uses Perl for C++.
4966 Uses ctags to find the info:
4967 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4968 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4969 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4970 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4971 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4972 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004973 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004974 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4975- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4976
4977
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004978Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004979- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000049807 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4981 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000049827 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4983 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4984 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049858 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4986 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
49879 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4988 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4989 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049908 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4991 - ignore/match case
4992 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049938 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4994 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4995 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4996 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4997 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4998 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049998 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050007 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5001 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050028 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5003 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5004 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5005 Should work for C++ and Java.
5006 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50077 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50087 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5009 instead of words.
50108 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50118 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5012 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50138 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5014 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005015- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5016 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005017- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5018 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5019 wildcards in the file name)?
5020- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5021- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5022- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5023 be in another file).
5024- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5025- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5026- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5027 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5028- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5029- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5030- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005031- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5032
5033
5034Command line editing:
50357 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5036 line.
50378 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5038 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5039 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5040- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5041 lines wraps to start of line).
5042- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5043 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5044 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5045 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5046 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5047 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5048 cmdwin does now already.
5049 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5050 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5051 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5052 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5053 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5054 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5055 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5056 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5057 Problems:
5058 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5059 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5060 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5061 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5062 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5063 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5064 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5065 character in first column?
5066 - Implementation ideas:
5067 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5068 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5069 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5070 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5071 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5072 Mode.
5073
5074
5075Command line completion:
50768 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
50778 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5078 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
50798 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5080 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050818 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5082 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050837 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5084 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005085- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5086- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5087 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050888 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5089 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
50907 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5091 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5092- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5093 identifiers (Webb).
50948 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5095 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
50967 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5097 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5098- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5099 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5100- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5101 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5102 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005103
5104
5105Command line history:
5106- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5107 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5108 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005109 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005110- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5111 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5112
5113
5114Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051159 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5116 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5117 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051188 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5119 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5120 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5121 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5122 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051238 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5124 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5125 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051267 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5127 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005128- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051297 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5130 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5131- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5132 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5133 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5134 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5135 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5136 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5137- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5138 Normal mode.
5139- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5140 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5141 are used.
5142- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5143- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5144- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5145
5146
5147'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051489 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5149 char * veryLongName =
5150 "very long string"
5151 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051528 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051538 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5154 long_type foo =
5155 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051568 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5157 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005158 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051598 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5160 func(
5161 new String[] {
5162 "asdf",
5163 "asdf"
5164 }
5165 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051668 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5167 (Chow Loong Jin)
5168 namespace {
5169 int
5170 func(int arg) {
5171 }
5172 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051736 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5174 func( arg1
5175 , arg2
5176 , arg3
5177 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000051787 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005179 func(
5180 int x) // indent like "(4"
5181 {
5182 if (a
5183 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051849 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5185 if (a)
5186 {
5187 if (b)
5188 {
5189 // {
5190 }
5191 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005192 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5193 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5194 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005195- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005196 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
51977 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5198- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5199 line).
5200- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5201- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5202 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005203- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5204 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5205- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5206 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5207- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5208- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5209 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52108 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5211 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5212 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5213- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5214- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5215 lines start with "\item".
5216- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5217 /* here is a comment that
5218 is just autoindented, and
5219 nothing else */
5220- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52217 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5222 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5223 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005224 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005225
5226
5227Java:
52288 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5229 Odendahl?
52308 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5231 "[i" commands and friends.
5232- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5233 (Jason)
5234- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5235 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5236
5237
5238'comments':
52398 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5240 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5241 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5242 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005243 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5244 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052457 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5246 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
52477 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
52486 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5249 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5250 regexp is used.
52518 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5252 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5253
5254
5255Virtual edit:
52568 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052577 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5258
5259
5260Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052618 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052628 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052638 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005264 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052658 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5266 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005267 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5268 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052698 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052708 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5271 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052728 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5273 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5274 the end of the line or before a ".".
52757 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5276 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
52777 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5278 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052796 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
52805 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5281 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5282 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5283 cursor is on.
5284
5285
5286Select mode:
52878 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5288 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
52897 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005290 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052917 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5292 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5293 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5294 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5295 normal_cmd().
5296 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5297 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5298
5299
5300Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053018 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5302 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005303- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5304 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5305 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005306- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5307 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5308 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053098 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005310 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005311 where needed.
53127 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5313 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53147 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5315 of each selected line.
53168 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53178 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5318 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5319 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53208 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5321 Ben Godfrey)
53227 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5323 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
53247 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5325 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053267 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005327 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005328 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
53298 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5330 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
53317 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5332 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5333 option!
53347 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5335 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5336 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5337 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5338 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5339 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5340 without changing the column.
53416 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053427 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5343 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053446 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5345 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
53466 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053476 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005348 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005349 or other special character.
53506 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5351
5352
5353More advanced repeating commands:
5354- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005355- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005356- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005357 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5358 "y." will repeat last yank.
5359 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5360 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5361 and/or pick an older command.
5362- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5363
5364
5365Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053668 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5367 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5368 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
53698 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
53707 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5371 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053728 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5373 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
53748 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000053757 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053768 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5377 entering search strings.
53788 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5379 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5380 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053818 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5382 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053837 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053847 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5385 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053866 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5387 abbreviations are to be used.
5388- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5389 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5390 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005391- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5392 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5393 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5394 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5395 Or implicit:
5396 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005397- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5398 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5399 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005400- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5401 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5402- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5403 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54046 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5405 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5406 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5407 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005408- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5409 non-replace Insert mode?
5410- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005411- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5412- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5413 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5414- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005415 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005416- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5417 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5418- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5419- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5420 ":freekeys".
5421- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5422
5423
5424Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005425- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5426 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5427- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5428 folds when going to another line.
5429 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5430- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5431 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005432- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5433 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5434 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005435- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5436 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5437 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5438 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020054399 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5440 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005441
5442
5443Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054449 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000054458 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005446 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005447 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005448 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005449 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010054509 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5451 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010054528 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5453 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000054548 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5455 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5456 Perl does it this way:
5457 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5458 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5459 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5460 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054618 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5462 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5463 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000054647 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5465 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000054668 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5467 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054687 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005469 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5470 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5471 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054727 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005473 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054747 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5475 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054768 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5477 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
54788 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5479 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020054807 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005481 example.
54828 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5483 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5484- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5485 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5486 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5487 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054888 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5489 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5490 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
54917 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5492 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000054937 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5494 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054958 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5496 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054978 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5498 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054998 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5500 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5501 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5502 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005503- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5504 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005505- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5506 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5507- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5508 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5509 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5510 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055118 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5512 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005513- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5514 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055158 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5516 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5517 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005518- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5519 i ignore case
5520 I use case
5521 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5522 v use Vi regexp syntax
5523 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5524 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5525 Perl uses these too:
5526 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5527 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5528 o compile only once (Perl only)
5529 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5530 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5531 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5532 following command.
5533 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5534- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5535 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5536 for search string)?
55377 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5538 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5539- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5540 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5541- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5542 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5543- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5544- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005545 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005546 a for the next file in the argument list
5547 f for file in the buffer list
5548 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005549 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5550 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005551 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5552 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5553- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055547 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005555 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055567 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5557 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5558 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5559 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
55606 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5561 effects.
55627 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5563 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5564 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000055657 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005566 Also ":dselect".
5567
5568
5569Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055709 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5571 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5572 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055739 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5574 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020055758 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5576 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055778 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5578 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5579 timestamp?
5580 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5581 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005582- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5583 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005584- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5585 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5586 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
55878 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5588 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5589 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5590 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
55918 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5592 only remember the lines that really changed.
55937 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5594 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5595 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5596 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005597- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5598 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5599- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5600 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5601- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5602 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5603 [-99].
5604- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5605- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005606- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5607 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5608
5609
5610Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056117 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5612 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5613 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5614 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56158 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5616 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56178 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5618 inode too.
56197 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005620 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5621 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056227 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5623 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5624- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5625 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5626- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5627 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
56287 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5629 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
56307 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5631 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
56328 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056337 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5634 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056358 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5636 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5637 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005638
5639
5640Swap (.swp) files:
56418 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5642 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5643 there are short file name problems.
56448 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5645 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
56468 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
56478 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005648 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005649 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5650 file the same as the actual file?
5651 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056527 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5653 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
56547 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005655 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005656 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5657 enough room.
56587 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5659 or /var/preserve.
5660- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5661 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5662- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005663 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005664- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5665 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5666 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5667 cached list of which line is where.
5668
5669
5670Viminfo:
56717 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5672 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5673 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056748 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5675 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5676 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056778 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5678 name. (Schild)
56798 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
56808 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056818 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056828 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5683 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5684 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5685 this?
56867 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
56877 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5688 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
56896 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5690 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5691 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5692- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5693 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5694
5695
5696Modelines:
56978 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5698 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5699 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005700- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5701 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5702 'shiftwidth'.
5703- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5704 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005705- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5706 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5707 modeline setting.
5708- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5709 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5710- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5711 .cpp files.
5712- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5713 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5714- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5715 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5716
5717
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005718Sessions:
57198 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5720 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57217 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5722 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057238 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5724 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057258 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5726 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5727 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000057287 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5729 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000057307 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005731
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005732
5733Options:
57347 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5735 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057368 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5737 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5738 also be supported.
57398 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5740 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5741 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57427 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005743
5744
5745External commands:
57468 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5747 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57484 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5749 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5750 -f).
57514 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57524 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5753 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57544 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5755
5756
5757Multiple Windows:
57587 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57598 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5760 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57617 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5762 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5763 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057647 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5765 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057667 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5767 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057686 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5769 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005770 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005771 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57727 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5773 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5774 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5775 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5776- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5777 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5778 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5779 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5780
5781
5782Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057838 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057848 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5785 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057868 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 +000057878 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5788 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
57898 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5790 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5791 the mark was set.
57927 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5793 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5794 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5795 ":browse marks"?
57966 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057977 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5798 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
57997 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5800 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58017 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5802 command).
58037 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5804 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5805 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5806 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58075 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5808 mappings.
58096 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5810 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5811 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5812
5813
5814Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058157 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005816 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005817- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5818 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058198 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058207 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5821 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5822
5823
5824Writing files:
5825- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5826 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5827 shortname conversion.
58288 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
58298 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5830 file.
58318 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5832 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5833 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058346 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5835 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58366 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5837 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58386 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5839 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058408 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005841 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58427 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5843 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
58447 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5845 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5846 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5847 waiting for a character to be typed).
58488 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5849 line of the window, like "[time]".
5850 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5851 Automatic and/or with a command.
5852
5853
5854Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058558 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5856 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058578 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005858 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5859- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5860- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58618 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5862 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005863- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005864 :s///N substitutes N times.
5865- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5866 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5867 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58687 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5869 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5870 last line column 5.
58715 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5872 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5873 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5874 (Stanislav Sitar)
5875
5876
5877Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058788 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58797 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58808 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5881 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5882 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005883- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5884- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5885 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5886- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5887- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5888
5889
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005890Argument list:
58916 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5892 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5893 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
58946 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5895
5896
5897Registers:
58988 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058998 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5900 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5901 for every line.
59026 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5903 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5904 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5905- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5906 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5907- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5908 leader when line wraps?
5909- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5910 line in the range.
5911- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5912 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59138 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5914 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005915
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005916
5917Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059188 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059198 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059207 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59217 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5922
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005923Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059247 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5925 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5926 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5927 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5928 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5929 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5930 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005931 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059327 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5933 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059347 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5935 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059368 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5937 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059387 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5939 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5940 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005941- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005942 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059437 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5944 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59458 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059467 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5947 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59488 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5949 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059506 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059518 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5952 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5953 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5954 in this Vim.
59558 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005956 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059578 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5958 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5959 have it apply to the following command.
59608 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5961 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5962 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5963 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059647 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5965 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059667 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5967 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5968 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5969 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059706 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59718 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59729 Support ACLs on more systems.
59737 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5974 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059757 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5976 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5977 (truncated to fit in the space).
59787 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59798 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59808 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5981 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059827 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005983 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59847 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5985 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059867 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059877 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
59887 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059898 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
59908 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5991 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5992 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5993 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
59948 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059958 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059968 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5997 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5998 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5999 does something like this. (Shah)
60007 Use growarray for replace stack.
60017 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6002 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60033 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060047 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6005 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060067 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6007 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006008- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6009- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6010- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6011- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60127 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6013 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6014- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6015 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006016- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006017- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6018 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6019- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6020 call "play newbeep.au").
6021- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6022 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6023 (Bhatt).
6024- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6025 blockwise registers).
6026- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6027 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6028- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6029 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6030 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6031 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006032- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060337 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6034 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6035- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6036 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6037 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6038 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6039 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060408 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6041 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060428 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6043 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6044 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6045 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6046 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6047- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006048- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060497 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6050 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6051- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6052 not in column 1.
60536 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6054 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60557 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6056- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006057- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006058 :redir #> bufname
6059 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006060- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6061 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006062- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6063 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6064 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60656 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6066 console? (Klaus Hast)
6067- Add :delcr command:
6068 *:delcr*
6069 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6070 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6071 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6072 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6073 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006074 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006075- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6076- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6077 characters from 'isprint'.
6078- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6079- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6080 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6081- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6082 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6083 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6084- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6085- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6086 Nvi).
6087- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6088 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
60897 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6090- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6091 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
60926 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6093- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6094 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6095 macro).
6096- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006097- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6098 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6099- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61008 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006101- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6102- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6103- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6104 if it is not the first or last window.
6105- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6106 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61077 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6108 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6109 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6110- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6111- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006112 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006113 many percent down the windows).
6114- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6115 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6116 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006117 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006118- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6119 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6120- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6121 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6122- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6123- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6124- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6125 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061268 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6127 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6128 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6129 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6130 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006131- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6132 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6133- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006134 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6135- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006136 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6137 (Webb).
6138- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006139 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006140- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6141 hex codes like 0xff).
6142- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6143 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6144 the last TYPED command.
6145- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6146- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6147- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6148 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006149- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061508 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6151 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6152 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006153- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006154 trailing '.'.
6155- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6156 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6157 find_file_in_path().
6158- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6159 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6160- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6161- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6162 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6163- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006164 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006165- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6166 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6167 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006168- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6169- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6170- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6171 to the minimal size.
6172- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6173- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6174- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6175- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6176- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006177- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6178 entered)?
6179- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6180 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006181- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006182- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6183- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6184- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6185- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6186- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6187 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006188- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061898 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6190 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6191 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6192 or in octal.
61937 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6194 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006195- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006196 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6197- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6198- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6199 insert line command).
6200- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6201- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6202- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6203- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6204- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6205 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006206- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006207 yet.
6208- Implement 'redraw' option.
6209- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6210 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062117 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6212 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006213 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6214 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062158 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6216 do it.
6217- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6218- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6219 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6220- Add text justification option.
6221- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6222- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6223 off".
6224- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6225- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6226- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006227 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006228- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006229- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006230- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6231 commands.
6232- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6233- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6234- :table command (Webb)
6235- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006236- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6237- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6238- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6239- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6240- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6241 (Demirel).
6242- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6243- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6244 for use in macro's and the like.
6245- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006246 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006247- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006248 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006249- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006250 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006251 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6252- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6253 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006254- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006255 mkopttab to make option table?
6256- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6257 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6258- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6259 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006260- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006261 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6262- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6263 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006264- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062658 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6266 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6267 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6268 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6269 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062708 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6271 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6272 (Netherton)
62736 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6274 space after "(", for example.
62755 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6276 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6277 (Servatius Brandt)
6278
6279
6280From Elvis:
6281- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6282- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006283- Search patterns:
6284 \@ match word under cursor.
6285 but do:
6286 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6287 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
62888 ":window" command:
6289 :win + next window (up)
6290 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6291 :win - previous window (down)
6292 :win -- idem, wrapping
6293 :win nr to window number "nr"
6294 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
62957 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6296 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6297
6298
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006299From xvi:
6300- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6301- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6302
6303
6304From vile:
6305- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6306- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6307 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6308
6309
6310Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006311- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6312 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006313 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006314 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6315 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006316- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6317 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6318- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6319 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6320 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6321 current layout mirrored.
6322- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6323- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6324 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6325- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6326- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6327 font in each top-level window.
6328- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6329- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6330- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6331- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6332 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006333- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6334 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6335- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6336 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63374 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6338 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6339 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6340 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006341 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006342 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6343 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6344- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6345 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6346 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6347
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006348vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006349vim: set fo+=n :