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Bram Moolenaarcd5c8f82017-04-09 20:11:58 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.0. Last change: 2017 Apr 09
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
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035 *known-bugs*
36-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
37
Bram Moolenaarcd5c8f82017-04-09 20:11:58 +020038Remove the Farsi code?
39
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +010040+channel:
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +010041- Try out background make plugin:
42 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +020043- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
Bram Moolenaarabd468e2016-09-08 22:22:43 +020044- Add 'cwd' argument to start_job(): directory to change to in the child.
45 check for valid directory before forking.
Bram Moolenaar45758762016-10-12 23:08:06 +020046 Part of patch for environment, Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1160
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +010047- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
48 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +020049- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +020050- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +010051- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
52 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +010053 minute. Option to set the droptime.
Bram Moolenaar82af8712016-06-04 20:20:29 +020054- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +010055- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +010056- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
57 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
58 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +010059- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
60 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
Bram Moolenaar328da0d2016-03-04 22:22:32 +010061- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal.
62 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +010063 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +010064
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010065Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +020066- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
67 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
68 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
69 LC_CTYPE
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010070- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
71 matches everywhere.
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +010072- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
73 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +010074- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020075- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
76 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010077- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010078- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
79 2013 Dec 11)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +010080- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
81 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020082- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
83- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
84 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +020085- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020086- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020087- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010088- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
89 2015 Feb 7)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020090- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
91 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
92 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
Bram Moolenaar979243b2015-06-26 19:35:49 +020093 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
94 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010095- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
96- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +010097- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +010098- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
99 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
100 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
101 col and vcol when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +0100102- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
103 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200104- The pattern "\1" with the old engine gives E65, with the new engine it
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100105 matches the empty string. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Oct 2, Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar7e1479b2016-09-11 15:07:27 +0200106 had_endbrace[] is set but not initialized or used.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100107- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
108 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200109
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100110Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
111manager. Problem with Motif?
112
113Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
114
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100115Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
116for one window.
117Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
118 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
119 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100120
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200121json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200122What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100123
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200124Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
125
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100126When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
127buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
128Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100129
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100130When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist, behave
131like the item was not a match for :cnext.
132
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200133Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
134Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100135Another example in #1309
136
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100137Patch to change all use of &sw to shiftwidth(). (Tyru, 2017 Feb 19)
138Wait until maintainers integrate it.
139
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100140When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
141when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
142
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100143Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
144#1330)
145
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200146Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
147
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100148Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
149
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100150GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
151g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
152timer expires.
153
154Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
155
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100156Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
157highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
158
1598 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
160 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
161
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100162Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
163Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
164
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100165Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
166(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
167Make a function to check for function-like type?
168
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200169Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
170(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
171
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100172Implement optional arguments for functions.
173 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
174 call Foo(12)
175 call Foo(12, all = 0)
176 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100177
178writefile() does not abort as soon as an error is found. (Nikolai Pavlov,
1792017 Feb 14, #1476)
180
181Patch to support on-the-spot and over-the-spot input method. (Ken Takata, 2017
182Feb 14).
183
184Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
185somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
186
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100187Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
188(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
189
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200190Patch for restoring wide characters in the console buffer.
191(Ken Takata, 2016 Jun 7)
192
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200193Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200194Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200195
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100196The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
197"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
198Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
199
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100200Patch to make urxvt mouse work better, recognize Esc[*M termcap code.
201(Maurice Bos, 2017 Feb 17, #1486)
202
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200203Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
204about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200205Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
206
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +0200207Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
208#1053) With patch, does it work?
209
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100210Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
211MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
2122017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
213receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
214
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100215":sbr" docs state it respect 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
216vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
217
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200218Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
219Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100220
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100221Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
222Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
223
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200224Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100225Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200226
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100227"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
228(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
229
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100230Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
231(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100232Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100233
234Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
235
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100236Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
237anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
238
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100239When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that item.
240Make a difference being at the first item and not having used :cnext at all.
241(Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
242
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200243Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200244E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200245
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +0200246Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
247(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
248
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200249Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
250
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100251Patch to add trim() function. (Bukn, 2016 Nov 25, #1280)
252
253Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
254
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100255Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
256
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100257On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
258separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
259
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200260min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
261contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
262
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200263Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
264
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200265Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
266
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200267Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
268
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200269Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
270no longer support.
271
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200272sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
2734#1038)
274
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200275Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
276
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100277Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
278#1350)
279
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200280Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200281Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
282use the current behavior.
283Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200284
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200285When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
286command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
287
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100288Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
289change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
290
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200291Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
292doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
293Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100294Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200295E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
296
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200297execute() cannot be used with command completeion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
298#1141)
299
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200300cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
301
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200302Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
303
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100304patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
305(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
306
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200307When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
308synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
309
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200310Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
311Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +0200312
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200313Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
314(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
315
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200316ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
317Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200318
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100319Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
320
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200321Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100322(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200323
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200324Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
325Jul 25, #948)
326
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200327Patch to fix wrong encoding of error message on Cygwin/MSYS terminal.
328(Ken Takata, 2016 Oct 4)
329
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100330Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
331names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
332Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
333the system encoding (usually utf-8).
334
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200335'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
336
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +0200337Patch to add context information to quickfix/location list. (Yegappan
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100338Lakshmanan, 2016 Aug 25, #1012)
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +0200339
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200340MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
341Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200342
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100343Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing test.
344(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
345
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200346Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
347Also for ":@.".
348
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200349Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
350
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200351Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
352#1125
353
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100354Patch to add 'pythonhome' and 'pythonthreehome' options. (Kazuki Sakamoto,
3552016 Nov 21, #1266)
356
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200357Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
358times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
359
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200360This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
361(Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
362
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200363Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
364
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200365Patch to add separate highlighting for quickfix current line.
366(anishsane, 2016 Sep 16, #1080)
367
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200368Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
369
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200370Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
371
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200372Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
373
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200374Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering.
375(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe)
376Now on Git: https://gist.github.com/nocd5/165286495c782b815b94
377Update 2016 Aug 10.
378
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +0100379We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
380the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
381
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +0200382Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
383
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200384When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
385emoji_width table has only one entry.
386
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100387It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
388Reject the value? #710.
389
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200390Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
391set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
392
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200393Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
3942013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12.
395Update mentioned by Christian, 2016 Apr 25.
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200396Update from Ken Takata, 2016 Jul 17.
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200397
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200398When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
399Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
400
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200401Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +0200402Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200403
404Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200405
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200406Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
407No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200408
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200409Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
410(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100411
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100412Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
413https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
414Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
415
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100416Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
417but the reference remains valid.
418
Bram Moolenaar328da0d2016-03-04 22:22:32 +0100419Patch to add setbufline(). (email from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, patch by Ozaki
420Kiichi, 2016 Feb 28)
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +0100421Update Mar 8: https://gist.github.com/mattn/23c1f50999084992ca98
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100422Update Mar 13: https://gist.github.com/mattn/23c1f50999084992ca98
Bram Moolenaar328da0d2016-03-04 22:22:32 +0100423
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100424Need to try out instructions in INSSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
425interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
426Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
427interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
428result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200429
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100430Duplication of completion suggestions for ":!hom". Issue 539.
431Patch by Christian, 2016 Jan 29
432>
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200433Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100434work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200435
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100436Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
437
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200438Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
439
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +0200440Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
441Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
442
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200443When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
444Apr 17) #762
445
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200446exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
447Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
448
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100449Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
450'iskeyword' for syntax.
451
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100452Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
453(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
454
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100455Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
456
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200457When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
458maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +0200459Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200460
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100461Patch to change GUI behavior: instead of changing the window size change the
462lines/columns when menu/toolbar/etc. is added/removed. (Ychin, 2016 Mar 20,
463#703)
464
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100465Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
466It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
467Add configure check?
468Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
469Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
470Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
471
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100472Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
473Do not include the linebreak at the start?
474
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +0200475Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
476Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
477Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
478
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200479Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
480Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
481
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100482Access to uninitialized memory in match_backref() regexp_nda.c:4882
483(Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 6)
484
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100485":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
486directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
487
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100488In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
489(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
490
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02004917 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
492 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
493 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
494 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200495Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jun 10, #859
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200496
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200497If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
4982016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200499
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100500Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
501(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
502
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100503Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200504Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100505
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100506Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
507Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
508
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200509Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
510
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200511When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
512restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
513Do not trigger the event?
514
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200515Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
516changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
517and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100518Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
519Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
5206, 2nd message)
521Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100522
Bram Moolenaar681baaf2016-02-04 20:57:07 +0100523Patch to fix that executable() may fail on very long filename in MS-Windows.
524(Ken Takata, 2016 Feb 1)
525
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100526Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
527Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
528https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
529
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100530Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
531With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
532
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200533Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100534
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +0100535Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
536
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +0100537Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100538Only remembers one error.
539
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200540Illegal memory access, requires ASAN to see. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jul 28)
541
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200542Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
543
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200544Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
545(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200546
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +0100547Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
548github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100549 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100550Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100551
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100552When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
553triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
554set_color_count().
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100555
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200556Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200557
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +0100558Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100559comparing individual items.
560Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
561Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
562Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
563equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
564
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100565Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
566
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100567MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
568wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
569
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100570Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
571specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
572
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +0100573Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
574(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
575
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200576Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200577inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200578
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100579Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
580(Luchr, #277)
581
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100582Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
583'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster?
584
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +0200585C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
586and also line continuation after #include.
587I can't recommend it though.
588
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100589Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
590(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
591
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100592Patch to add arguments to argc() and argv(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2016 Jan
59324) Also need a way to get the global arg list? Update later on Jan 24
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200594Update Mar 5. Update Apr 7. Update Jun 5.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100595
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100596To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
597library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
598
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100599When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
600is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
601
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100602Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
60330)
604
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +0200605MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
606(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
607
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100608Using an external diff is inefficient. Not all systems have a good diff
609program available (esp. MS-Windows). Would be nice to have in internal diff
610implementation. Can then also use this for displaying changes within a line.
611Olaf Dabrunz is working on this.
612
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200613The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
61424): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100615
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200616":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
617effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
618
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200619":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
6209)
621
622The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
623wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
624
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200625Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200626Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200627
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100628When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
629the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
630
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200631Patch for problem with restoring screen on Windows. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, 2015
632Sep 10)
633
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200634Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200635slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
636inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
637
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200638ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
6392014 Sep 11)
640
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200641Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
642(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
643
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200644When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
645'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
646
647Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200648(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100649Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
650- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
651 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
652 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
653- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
654 covered by the above change.
655So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +0100656same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200657Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200658
659Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
660Work in progress.
661
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100662Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
663when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
664
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200665Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
666Is this right?
667
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200668Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
669(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
670Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
671
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200672Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
673Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100674
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +0200675Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
676Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
677
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200678Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
679
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100680Cannot execute the shell when it's in a directory with a space.
681Issue #459.
682
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +0100683When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
684filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
685initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
686
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100687Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
688
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200689Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
690OK to not block marks?
691
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100692Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
693
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100694Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
695
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200696When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
697(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
698
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200699Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200700
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100701Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
702(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
703
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200704When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
705any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
706
707Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +0200708
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100709Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100710
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100711Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny,
7122015 Feb 6.
713
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100714Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
715Is this a good solution?
716
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200717Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
718(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
719
720Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
721
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100722Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
723Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
724was already defined.
725(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
726
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200727Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
728
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200729Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100730Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100731Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200732Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100733
734Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200735
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200736Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
737(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
738
739Delete old code in os_msdos.c, mch_FullName().
740
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100741Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
742(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
743
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200744Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200745Update 2016 Jun 10, # 857
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200746
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100747Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
748change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
749them: ":repeats".
750
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100751Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
752
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100753When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
754these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
755window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
756
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100757Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
758should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
759history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
760Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
761
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200762"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
763Jun 8)
764
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100765Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
766insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
767
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200768Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
769
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100770No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
771
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200772Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
773(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
774Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
775arguments.
776
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100777Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
778
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200779Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100780
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200781Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
7820x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
783New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
784compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
785
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200786xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
787buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
788Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100789Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +0200790Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100791Also see issue #609.
792We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100793
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200794Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
795right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200796its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200797
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100798Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200799What for systems that don't have unsetenv()? (Issue #1116)
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100800
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100801Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
802
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100803This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
804 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
805This neither: (ZyX)
806 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
807
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200808'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
809Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
810from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100811
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200812Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
8132014 Jun 8)
814
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100815Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100816Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100817Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
818Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
819User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100820- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
821 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
822 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100823- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
824- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
825 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
826 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
827 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
828 on vim.org.
829- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
830 there. Can manually update when really needed.
831- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
832- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
833- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
834- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
835Implementation:
836- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
837 plugin separate.
838- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
839 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
840 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
841- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
842 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
843- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
844 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
845 installing.
846Out of scope:
847- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
848- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
849 useful).
850
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200851Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
852normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100853
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200854When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
855menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
856
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200857Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
858(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
859
860":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
861various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100862
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +0200863Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200864(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
865
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200866VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
867instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
868
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100869Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200870Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100871
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200872Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200873command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100874
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100875Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
876
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100877Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
878highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100879
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200880The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
881For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
882
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100883Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +0200884possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100885
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100886Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +0100887It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100888
889Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200890
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200891Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
892
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100893Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
894
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100895Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100896Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100897
898Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
8993. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
900
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200901/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
902
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01009037 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
904 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
905 "lucida_console:h8").
906Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
907
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200908:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
909
910Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200911With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200912
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200913Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
914
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200915Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
916
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100917When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
918(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
919
920Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
921Dec 13.
922
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100923Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
924buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
925
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200926GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
927(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
928
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100929Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
930registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
931
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200932Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
933
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200934The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
935(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
936Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
937
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200938The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
939- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
940- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
941
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100942Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
943Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
944reliably?
945
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200946Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
947That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
948Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
94917)
950Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200951Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200952
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100953Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
954(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
955
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100956Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
957(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
958
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200959Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
9602013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100961
962Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
963
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200964Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
9655)
966
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200967Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
968carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
969
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200970Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
971highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
972
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +0100973Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200974
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200975Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020097628) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200977
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200978Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
979optional. (2013 Jul 12)
980
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200981Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
982
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100983Improve the installer for MS-Windows. There are a few alternatives:
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200984- Add silent install option. (Shane Lee, #751)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100985- Installer from Cream (Steve Hall).
986- Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen)
987 https://github.com/gpwen/vim-installer-mui2
988- make it possible to do a silent install, see
989 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
990 Version from Guopeng Wen does this.
991- MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
992- The one on Issue 279.
993Problem: they all work slightly different (e.g. don't install vimrun.exe).
994How to test that it works well for all Vim users?
995
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100996Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
997
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200998- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
999 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1000Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001001
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001002Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001003
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001004In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1005process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1006a reboot.
1007
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001008patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1009
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001010Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1011not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001012
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001013Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1014Or use expand('<sid>')?
1015
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001016Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1017
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001018Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001019
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001020Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
1021
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001022Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1023
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001024b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
10257)
1026
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001027Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1028compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1029
1030Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1031Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1032vim.bindeval().
1033
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001034Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
10352012 Aug 4)
1036
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001037Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1038(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1039
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001040Patch to add new regexp classes :ident:, :keyword:, :fname:.
1041(ichizok, 2016 Jan 12, #1373)
1042
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001043Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1044But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1045
1046Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1047Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1048Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001049
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001050Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1051loading all files.
1052
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001053MS-Windows resizing problems:
1054- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1055 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1056- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1057 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1058 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001059
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001060'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001061
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001062Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001063of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1064
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001065Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
1066
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001067The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1068Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1069But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001070
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001071Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
1072Aug 16)
1073
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001074When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1075is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1076
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001077URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001078- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001079- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1080 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1081
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001082Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1083(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1084Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1085
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001086Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001087New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001088
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001089When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1090for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1091Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001092
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001093Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
1094
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001095Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
109624)
1097
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001098Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1099
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001100Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1101
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001102Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1103Apr 18)
1104
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001105Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1106And one for gui_x11.txt.
1107
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001108":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1109finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1110Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1111
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001112Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1113
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001114Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1115
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001116Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1117they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1118
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001119Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1120
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001121Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1122Nov 20)
1123
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001124Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001125Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001126
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001127`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001128(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1129
1130Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1131
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001132BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1133Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1134
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001135Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1136Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1137
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001138Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1139
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001140On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
11412012 Jun 19)
1142
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001143'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1144'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1145Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001146Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001147
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001148With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1149(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1150need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1151
1152Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1153only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
115421, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1155
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001156The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1157support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1158
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001159'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1160highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1161
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001162Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1163New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1164
1165Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1166Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1167
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001168Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1169Jan 19)
1170
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001171Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1172discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1173meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001174
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001175"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001176Oct 26)
1177
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001178Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1179
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001180With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1181register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001182
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001183Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1184
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001185When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1186(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1187
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001188Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
1189Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
1190
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001191When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1192then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1193from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1194
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001195Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1196":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
119715)
1198
1199Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1200
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001201BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1202cleared. See test64.
1203
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001204Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
1205
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001206Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001207effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001208Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
1209
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001210On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
121164 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1212right type.
1213
1214string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1215(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1216
1217When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1218(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001219When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1220following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1221(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001222
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001223When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1224doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1225
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001226Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1227
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020012287 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
1229Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
1230
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001231maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1232mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1233
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001234Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1235(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1236
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001237When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1238indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1239the help file.
1240
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001241After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1242Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1243
1244Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1245
1246"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1247
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001248Patch to add TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001249May 24) Update May 26.
1250
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001251Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1252
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001253Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001254
1255Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
12562010 Dec 18)
1257
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001258With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1259number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1260Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1261
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001262Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1263Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1264
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020012658 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1266Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1267
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001268Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1269one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1270the match scrolls into view.
1271
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020012727 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1273Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1274Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1275
12769 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1277 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1278Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1279
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001280Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1281Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1282
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001283In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1284or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1285sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1286
1287GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1288doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1289
1290GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1291
1292Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1293Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1294
1295Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1296
12977.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1298there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1299do?
1300
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001301Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
130222)
1303
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001304New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1305- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001306- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001307 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1308
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001309"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
13102011 Feb 27)
1311
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001312Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1313^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1314
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001315'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
1316way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
1317
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001318When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1319exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
13209) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1321
1322g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1323the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1324
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001325Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1326crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1327
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001328Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
1329number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
1330
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001331Regexp engine performance:
1332- Profiling:
1333 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1334 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1335 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1336 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1337 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1338 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1339- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1340- Performance tests:
1341 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1342 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1343 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1344 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1345 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1346 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1347 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1348 'hlsearch'.
1349 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1350 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1351 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1352 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1353
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001354Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1355Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1356
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001357'beval' option should be global-local.
1358
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001359Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001360
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001361setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001362
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +020013637 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
1364 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
1365 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
1366
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001367With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
13682010 Oct 24)
1369
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001370Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
1371Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001372New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001373
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001374Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1375
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001376When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1377Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1378
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001379":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1380
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001381'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1382
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001383C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1384checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1385Issue 46.
1386
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001387Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1388
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001389Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1390gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1391
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001392":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1393accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1394
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001395Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1396setwinvar().
1397
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001398Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1399
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001400When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1401instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1402
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001403Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1404Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1405Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001406
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001407Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1408back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1409
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001410Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001411Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1412
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001413CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1414the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1415FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1416
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001417Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1418Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1419
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001420Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1421Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1422
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001423I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1424Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1425an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001426
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001427Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1428
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001429Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1430non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001431
1432iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1433Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1434or replace with a character and continue?
1435
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001436Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1437Requires configure check for localtime().
1438Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1439
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001440Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1441Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1442
1443Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1444
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001445Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1446Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1447path.
1448
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001449Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001450Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001451
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001452'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1453
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001454":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1455like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1456
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001457Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1458https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001459
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001460Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
14612010 Nov 5)
1462
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001463Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001464Jan 7)
1465
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001466Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1467Only with "vim -u NONE".
1468
1469Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1470
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001471With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1472entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1473Feb 12)
1474
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001475Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1476characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1477
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001478Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1479
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001480Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1481 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1482
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001483Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1484
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001485When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1486Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1487
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001488When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1489not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1490string value.
1491
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001492Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
1493
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001494For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001495line argument -noregister.
1496
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001497When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1498missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1499
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001500When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1501doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001502
1503Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1504(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1505Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1506There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1507Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1508
1509":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1510highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1511to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1512
1513Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1514Probably needs a bit of work.
1515
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001516Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1517Added test, updates, June 23.
1518Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1519With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1520Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1521
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001522List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001523Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1524
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001525Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1526
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001527Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1528
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001529Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1530Sep 1)
1531
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001532Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1533
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001534Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1535on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1536
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001537Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
15382009 Jul 18)
1539
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001540Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1541window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1542Needs more work.
1543
1544Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1545
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001546When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1547few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1548
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001549'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001550(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1551
1552Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1553J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1554
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001555When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1556for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1557
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001558Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1559
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001560Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1561
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001562":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1563because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1564ex_docmd.c.
1565
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001566Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001567Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1568
1569string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1570for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1571
1572Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1573
1574'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
157520)
1576
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001577Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
15782009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1579
1580Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1581
1582Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1583SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1584
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001585When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1586indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1587(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1588
1589Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1590are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1591Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1592Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1593that doesn't have a window.
1594
1595When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1596doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1597
1598getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1599displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1600
1601":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1602
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001603There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1604was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1605perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1606
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001607Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1608
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001609Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1610command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1611
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001612Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1613does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1614
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001615opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1616height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001617very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001618
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001619Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1620(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1621
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001622Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001623(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1624
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001625Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1626char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1627
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001628Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1629Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1630
1631This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
1632
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001633A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001634
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001635Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1636messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1637es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
16382009 Jan 26)
1639
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001640When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001641in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1642Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1643
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001644Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1645a modeline.
1646
1647Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1648Sergey Khorev)
1649
1650Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1651part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001652
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001653After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1654correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1655
1656Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1657(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1658
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001659shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001660'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1661Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1662unix-like shell?
1663
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001664Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1665register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1666(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1667
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001668Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1669Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1670
1671Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1672make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1673
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001674When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1675still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1676
1677"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1678(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1679
1680Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1681
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001682Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1683that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1684ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1685Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1686
1687Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001688Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001689
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001690MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1691doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1692probably causes this.
1693
1694'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020016952009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001696
1697Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1698 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1699 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1700(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1701
1702Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1703":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1704option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1705is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001706
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001707":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1708first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001709Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001710
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001711Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1712laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1713Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001714
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001715Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1716anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1717
1718On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1719doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1720Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1721Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1722
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001723When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1724'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1725fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1726the buffer to be unmodified.
1727Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1728another look at it.
1729
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001730c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1731(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1732
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001733You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1734error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1735Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1736at the other match for 0xBF.
1737
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001738When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1739argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1740
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001741Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1742backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1743
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001744When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1745line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1746
1747Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1748position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1749
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001750After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1751(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001752command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001753
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001754":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1755Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1756
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001757When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1758either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1759put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1760
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001761Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1762Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1763Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1764Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1765(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1766
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001767Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1768
1769ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001770
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001771Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1772(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1773escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1774an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001775This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1776July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001777Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1778work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1779
1780When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
178131)
1782
1783Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1784work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1785Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001786
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001787Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
1788multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
1789(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
1790
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001791Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
17922008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001793Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001794
1795Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1796Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1797'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1798
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001799Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1800Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1801
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001802Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1803Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1804
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020018058 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1806 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1807 several).
1808 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1809 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1810 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1811Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1812
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001813The utf class table is missing some entries:
1814 0x2212, minus sign
1815 0x2217, star
1816 0x2500, bar
1817 0x26ab, circle
1818
1819Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1820line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1821
1822GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1823Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1824
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001825Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1826try the Cocoa version.
1827
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001828Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1829changed or the window is resized.
1830
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001831GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1832the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1833
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001834Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1835Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001836
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001837Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
18381) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1839
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001840C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1841with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1842Try to reproduce at work.
1843
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001844Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1845Is there a way to list all the files first?
1846
1847When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1848result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
184916)
1850
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001851Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1852(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1853
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001854Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1855Await response to question to make the register writable.
1856
1857Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
18581)
1859
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001860In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1861each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1862
1863try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1864
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001865try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1866
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001867":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1868Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1869
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001870Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1871
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001872Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1873Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1874
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001875Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1876Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1877Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001878
1879C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1880(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1881
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001882When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1883and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1884
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001885Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1886 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1887
1888New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1889
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001890":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1891a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1892
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001893'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1894Likonen, March 19)
1895
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001896Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1897other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1898
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001899The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1900appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1901matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1902
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001903When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1904character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1905'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1906(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1907
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001908Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1909Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001910
1911More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1912
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001913Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1914http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1915
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001916Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1917back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1918Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001919
1920Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1921No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1922
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001923Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1924terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001925
1926Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1927
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001928Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1929but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1930that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001931
1932When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1933
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001934Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1935Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1936
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001937Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1938popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1939size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1940This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1941
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001942When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1943it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1944
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001945Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1946then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1947files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001948Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1949indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1950":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001951in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
1952quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001953Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001954
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001955When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1956parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1957neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1958particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1959Jun 3)
1960However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1961the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001962
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001963A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1964Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1965
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001966Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1967Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1968
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001969Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1970switch list is noticed:
1971 switch (i)
1972 {
1973 case 1:
1974 foobar:
1975 }
1976
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001977Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1978
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001979Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1980with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1981go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1982moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1983
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001984Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
198564-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1986
1987Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1988Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1989Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1990argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1991(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1992
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001993Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1994(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1995
1996Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1997makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1998.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1999 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
2000
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002001Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
20022007 Feb 8)
2003
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002004Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2005set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002006
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002007Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2008
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002009Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2010Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2011New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2012patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2013
2014Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2015Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2016
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002017Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
20182007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002019Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002020
2021Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002022label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2023
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002024Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2025with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2026Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002027
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002028Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2029
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002030Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2031Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2032only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2033
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002034Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2035Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002036Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002037properly?
2038
2039Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
20402007 Jun 21)
2041
2042When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2043Jun 18)
2044
2045If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2046
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002047Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2048windows. (Adam George)
2049
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002050F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2051modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2052K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002053
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002054In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2055the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2056
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002057C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2058
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002059":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2060
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002061When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002062error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002063
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002064Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
2065use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2066
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002067Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2068if_ruby.c.
2069
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002070":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2071
2072The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2073it in keep_msg?
2074
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002075Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002076error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002077name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2078
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002079Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2080longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002081
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002082Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2083Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2084Also for ":w" without a file name.
2085The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002086
2087"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2088Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2089
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002090VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2091directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2092(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2093
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002094VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2095
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002096input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2097name?
2098
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002099Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2100
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002101When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2102(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2103Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2104will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2105
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002106gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2107This also fails with --remote.
2108
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002109When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
21102008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2111all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2112
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002113aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2114
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002115When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2116(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2117
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002118Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2119the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2120
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002121GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2122
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002123Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2124superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2125
2126Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2127character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2128
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002129Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2130Jun 5)
2131
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002132Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
21332008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2134Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2135
2136In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2137but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2138Jul 22)
2139
2140There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2141
2142Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2143":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2144somehow? Or use a new function.
2145
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002146Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2147
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002148Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2149moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2150that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2151
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002152The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2153
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002154When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002155cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2156the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2157
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002158These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2159 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2160 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2161 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2162
2163Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2164partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2165
2166In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2167buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2168reload it then?
2169
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002170For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2171
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002172Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2173only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2174
2175Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2176tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2177doesn't contain other directories.
2178
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002179Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2180Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2181
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002182Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2183 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2184 set background=dark
2185This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2186color is, not reset it.
2187
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002188Linux distributions:
2189- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2190 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2191 xfree-xterm".
2192- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2193
2194Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2195start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2196show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2197middle?
2198
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002199Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2200
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002201When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2202current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2203the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2204
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002205When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2206Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2207
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002208Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2209 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2210 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2211 - getting colors in xterm
2212 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2213
2214Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2215Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2216
2217Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2218
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002219A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2220Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2221
2222Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2223Dara, 2006 June 21)
2224
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002225Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2226number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2227
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002228After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2229the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2230
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002231Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002232
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002233Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2234Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2235
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002236Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010022372008 Sep 29)
2238
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002239In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2240check the result of has("patch13").
2241
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002242Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2243restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2244
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002245Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2246and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2247
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002248Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2249put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2250
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002251Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2252resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2253
2254In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2255can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2256
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002257GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2258maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2259doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002260Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2261visible.
2262
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002263When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2264differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002265
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002266The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2267be only one.
2268
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002269Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002270"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2271name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2272Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002273
2274Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2275(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2276
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002277Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2278as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2279
2280Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2281Jan 1)
2282
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002283Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
228423)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002285
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002286":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2287tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2288Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002289
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002290When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2291text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2292latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2293
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002294Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2295no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2296
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002297In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2298VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
22992007 Oct 16)
2300
2301TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2302Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2303
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002304Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002305
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002306When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2307typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2308Sep 3, 11)
2309
2310When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2311respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2312the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2313what happens for the GUI.
2314
2315X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
2316pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
2317clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
2318Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
2319Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
2320clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
2321
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002322":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2323this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2324
2325When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2326Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2327restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2328
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002329Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
23302010 Jun 30)
2331
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002332Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2333'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2334(Kartik Agaram)
2335
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002336
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002337Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002338- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2339 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2340- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2341 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2342 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2343- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2344 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2345 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002346- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2347- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002348
2349
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002350More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002351- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2352 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002353- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002354- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2355 patch May 10)
2356- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2357 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2358- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2359 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2360- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2361- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2362- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2363 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2364 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002365- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002366- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2367 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2368- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2369 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2370- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2371 21)
2372- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2373 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2374- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2375 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002376- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2377 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002378- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2379 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2380 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2381 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2382 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002383- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002384
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002385Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000023869 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2387 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2388 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2389 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2390 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2391 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2392 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2393 (Alan Schmitt)
2394 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002395 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2396 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000023979 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002398 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000023998 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024007 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2401 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2402 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024038 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002404 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020024057 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002406 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2407- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2408 for multi-byte characters.
2409- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2410- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2411 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2412 been given values.
2413 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
24148 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002415 with an ESC sequence.
2416 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2417 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2418 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024197 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2420 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2421- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2422 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2423 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
24248 Add functions:
2425 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2426 Update 2004 Sep 10
2427 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2428 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002429 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002430 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2431 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2432 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2433 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2434 (2003 May 13)
2435 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2436 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002437 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2438 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002439 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2440 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2441 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024427 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2443 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2444- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2445 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
24467 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2447 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000024488 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2449 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024507 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
24518 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2452 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
24537 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2454 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024557 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2456- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2457 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2458 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002459- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2460 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2461- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2462
2463
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002464Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002465- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2466 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024678 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2468 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2469 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2470 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2471 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2472 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024738 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2474 make Vim exit.
24757 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2476 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2477 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
24788 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2479 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2480 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
24816 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2482 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2483 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
24848 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2485 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2486 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2487 names in one buffer???
2488 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2489 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2490 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
24917 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2492 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2493 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002494 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2495 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024967 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2497 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
24987 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
24997 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025007 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2501 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2502 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2503 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
25047 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
25057 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
25067 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2507 to the match with the tag? Option?
25087 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
25097 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2510 (Sayre).
25117 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2512 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025137 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2514 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2515 match. Nvi can do it too.
25167 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2517 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2518 line 1\ line 2\\
2519 line 2\ line 3\\
2520 . line4/
25216 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2522 the way the shell is started?
25236 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2524 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2525
2526
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002527GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000025289 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025298 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2530 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2531 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000025328 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2533 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2534 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025359 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2536 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2537 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2538 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002539- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2540 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2541 blocked for now.
2542
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002543
2544Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002545- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2546 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025478 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2548 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2549 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
25508 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2551 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025526 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2553 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000025548 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2555 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2556 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025577 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2558 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2559 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025607 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2561 2004 May 9)
25628 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2563 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2564 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2565 MS-Windows 98?
2566 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2567 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2568 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2569 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025708 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2571 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2572 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2573 doesn't work properly.
25748 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2575 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2576 appears in the right position. (Webb)
25779 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2578 button doesn't give popup menu.
2579 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2580 selection.
2581 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2582 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2583 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
25848 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2585 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2586 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2587 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
25888 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2589 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2590 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025917 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2592 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2593 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
25947 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2595 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002596 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025977 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2598 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025996 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
26008 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2601 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2602 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
26038 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2604 know which keyboard is being used?
26057 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2606 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2607 area (Koloseike).
26088 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2609 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2610 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2611 the font name).
2612
2613
2614Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000026156 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2616 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2617 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2618 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2619 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026209 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2621 required and it's missing?
26228 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2623 wrong.
26249 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2625 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000026269 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002627 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2628 flag.
26298 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2630 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2631 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
26328 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
26336 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2634 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2635 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2636 the tooltips work though...
26377 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2638 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
26398 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2640 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2641 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2642
2643
2644Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010026459 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2646 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026479 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2648 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2649 through files.
26507 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2651 read long file names. (Schroeder)
26524 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2653 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2654 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2655 problem during a refresh.
26565 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2657 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2658 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2659 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2660 colors as it should.
2661 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2662 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2663
2664
2665Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002666- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026677 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2668 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026698 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2670 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2671 (Phillipps)
2672
2673
2674GUI:
26759 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2676 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
26779 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002678 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002679 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
26809 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2681 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
26828 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2683 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
26848 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2685 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2686 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
26878 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2688 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2689 of where it is processing the output.
2690 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
26918 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2692 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010026938 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000026948 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2695 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2696 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020026978 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026988 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2699 browse().
27008 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2701 use that code? Or use console dialog.
27028 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2703 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000027047 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2705 - regexp on/off
2706 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2707 when all buffers/directory is used:
2708 - filter for file name
2709 when directory is used:
2710 - subdirectory on/off
2711 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027128 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2713 to avoid problems.
27148 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2715 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2716 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
27178 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2718 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2719 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
27208 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2721 up. Set erase character somehow?
27228 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2723 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2724 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2725 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
27268 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
27277 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2728 visible.
27297 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2730 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
27317 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2732 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
27338 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2734 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
27358 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2736 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2737 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2738 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2739- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
27404 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2741 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2742 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2743
2744
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01002745Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000027468 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2747 a good fallback, thus use:
2748 $HOME
2749 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2750 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2751 $USERPROFILE
2752 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2753 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2754 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2755 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027568 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2757 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
27588 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2759 Should work like in the GUI version.
27608 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2761 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
27628 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2763 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
27648 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2765 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2766 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027678 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2768 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2769 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2770
2771
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002772Win32 console:
27739 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2774 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2775 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2776 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2777 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2778 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2779 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2780 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2781 and the file is not saved.
2782 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2783 long name.
27848 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2785 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
27867 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2787 besides the console.
27888 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
27899 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2790 <C-S-i>?
27919 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2792 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
27938 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2794 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002795
2796
2797Amiga:
27988 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2799 sequences.
28009 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2801 backslashes in result.
28028 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2803 all options, using white space separation.
2804
2805
2806Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002807- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028087 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2809 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2810 (Jack)
2811 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028128 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2813 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028148 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
28158 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
28169 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2817 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028189 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002819
2820
2821"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002822- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2823 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002824- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2825 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002826- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2827 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2828 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2829 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2830 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2831 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2832 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000028339 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2834 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000028359 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002836 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2837 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028388 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2839 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2840 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002841 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028427 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2843 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
28448 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2845 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2846 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028477 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2848 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002849- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2850 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028518 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2852 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2853 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2854 using the horizontal scrollbar.
28557 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2856 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2857 invocations belong together.
28588 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2859 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
28608 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2861 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2862 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01002863 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000028648 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2865 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2866 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028678 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2868 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028697 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2870 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2871 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2872 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028737 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2874 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2875 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
28767 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2877 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2878 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
28797 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2880 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028817 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2882 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028839 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2884 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2885 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2886 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2887 script can be called.
28888 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2889 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2890 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028918 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2892 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000028938 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002894 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2895 configurable?
28968 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028978 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2898 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028998 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2900 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029018 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2902 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029039 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2904 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2905 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029067 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029078 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2908 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2909 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000029108 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2911 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002912 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2913 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029148 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2915 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
29169 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2917 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2918 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002919 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029207 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2921 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029227 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2923 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2924 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2925 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029268 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002927 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2928 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2929 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2930 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002931 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2932 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002933 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002934 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002935 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2936 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2937 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2938 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2939 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029408 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2941 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
29428 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2943 in lines that don't extend into the block?
29448 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2945 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2946 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
29478 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2948 'linebreak'.
29498 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2950 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2951 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029529 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2953 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2954 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2955 'magic' in history. (Margo)
29569 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2957 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
29589 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2959 isn't updated).
29609 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
29619 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2962 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2963 cause another redraw, etc.
29648 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2965 must escape special characters in the pattern.
29668 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2967 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2968 ":w!!" for that.
2969 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2970 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002971 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029727 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2973 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2974 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2975 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2976 clipboard)
29777 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2978 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2979 Waggoner)
29808 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2981 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2982 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000029836 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2984 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2985 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029868 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2987 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
29888 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2989 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2990 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000029918 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029928 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2993 (e.g., ":w").
29948 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2995 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029968 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2997 script in do_cmdline().
29988 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2999 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3000 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3001 changes.
30028 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3003 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
30048 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3005 check for file marks. This can be slow.
30067 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3007 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3008 needed.
3009 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
30108 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3011 to skip catch_signals()?
30129 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3013 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3014 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3015 text?
30168 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3017 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
30188 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3019 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
30209 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3021 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3022 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3023 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3024 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
30257 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3026 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3027 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3028 in the list?
30298 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3030 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3031 instead of on button down.
30328 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
30339 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3034 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003035 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3036 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030378 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3038 character is typed.
30398 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3040 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
30418 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3042 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
30438 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3044 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3045 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3046 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3047 cygwin bash.
30487 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3049 Remember flags for backreferences.
30507 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3051 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
30527 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3053 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
30548 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3055 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
30567 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3057 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030587 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3059 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3060 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
30617 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3062 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
30638 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3064 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3065 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
30667 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3067 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003068
3069
3070I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
30719 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3072 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3073 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003074
3075
3076Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003077- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3078 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3079 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003080- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3081 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3082 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3083 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3084 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3085 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003086 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003087- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3088 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003089 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003090 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3091 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3092 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003093- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3094 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3095 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3096 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3097 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3098- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3099 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3100 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3101- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3102 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003103- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003104- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3105 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3106 character gets the highlighting.
3107- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3108 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3109- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3110 (Jennings)
3111- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
3112- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3113 errors. How do we get the rest?
3114- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003115- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003116 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003117- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3118 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3119 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3120- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3121 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3122 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3123 (Benzinger).
3124- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3125 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3126 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3127- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3128 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3129- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3130 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3131- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3132 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3133 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3134 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3135 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3136 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3137- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3138 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3139 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003140- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3141 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3142 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003143- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3144 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3145 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3146- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3147 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3148- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3149 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003150- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3151 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3152- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3153 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3154 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3155 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3156 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3157- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3158 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3159 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3160- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3161 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3162 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003163- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3164 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 +00003165- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3166 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3167 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3168 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3169 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3170- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3171 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3172
3173--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3174 *extensions-improvements*
3175
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003176Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3177- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3178 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3179 calling a function.
3180 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3181 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003182- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3183 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
3184- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
3185 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
3186 http://clewn.sf.net.
3187 And the idevim plugin/script.
3188 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
3189 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
3190 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
3191 other window.
3192 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
3193 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
3194 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
3195 in terminal mode.
3196- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3197 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3198 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3199 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3200 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3201 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003202 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003203- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3204 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3205 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003206- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3207 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003208- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
3209 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
3210 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032118 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3212 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3213 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3214 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003215- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3216 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003217
3218
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003219Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032208 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3221 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000032228 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3223 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032248 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3225 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032268 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032279 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3228 - change to cursor position and curswant
3229 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3230 - how it works for folded lines
3231 - how it works with multi-byte characters
32329 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3233 work too.
32348 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3235 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3236 text.
32378 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
32387 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3239 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
32407 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3241 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003242 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003243- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3244
3245
3246Help:
3247- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3248 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3249- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3250 to the other matches.
3251- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003252- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3253 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3254 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3255 default contents.
3256- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3257 height for the help window (and other windows).
3258- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3259- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3260- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3261
3262
3263User Friendlier:
32648 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3265 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3266 Briscoe)
32678 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
32688 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3269 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3270 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
32718 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3272 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3273- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3274 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003275- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
32769 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3277 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3278 item?).
3279 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032808 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000032817 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3282 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3283 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000032848 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3285 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3286 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3287 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003288
3289
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003290Tab pages:
32919 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032927 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3293 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000032948 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000032958 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000032967 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000032977 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003298 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000032998 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3300 tab pages.
33017 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033027 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3303 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003304
3305
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003306Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003307- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3308 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3309- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3310 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3311 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3312- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3313 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003314- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3315 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3316 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003317- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3318 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3319 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003320- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3321 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003322- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003323 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3324 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000033258 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3326 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
33278 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3328 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
33298 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3330 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003331 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003332 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3333 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3334 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3335 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003336- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3337 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003338- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003339- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3340 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003341- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003342 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003343- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003344 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003345- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3346 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003347- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3348 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3349- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003350 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003351 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3352 in the affix file separately.
3353 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003354 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003355 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3356 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3357 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3358- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3359 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3360 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3361 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3362 Alternative:
3363 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3364 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3365 affix which is required.
3366- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003367 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003368- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3369 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3370 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003371- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3372 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003373- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3374 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3375- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000033768 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3377 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3378 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3379 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003380- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3381 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3382 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3383 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033848 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3385 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000033868 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
33878 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3388 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000033897 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
33908 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3391 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3392 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3393 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003394
3395
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003396Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020033979 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3398 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033999 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
3400 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02003401 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020034028 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003403 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003404
3405Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003406 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3407 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034088 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3409 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000034108 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034118 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3412 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3413 user aware of this?
34148 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3415 commands skip over a closed fold.
34168 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
34178 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034187 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003419- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3420 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3421 missing line goes unnoticed.
3422 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003423- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3424 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3425 smoother?
3426- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3427 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003428- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3429 file can contain:
3430 args version.c main.c
3431 edit version.c
3432 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003433- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003434- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3435 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003436- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3437 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003438- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3439 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003440- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003441
3442Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003443- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3444 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3445 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3446 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034479 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3448 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3449 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3450 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020034519 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3452 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3453 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034548 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3455 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3456 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3457 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3458 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3459 item.
34608 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003461 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3462 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034638 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3464 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003465 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003466 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034678 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3468 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034698 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3470 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3471 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034727 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3473 so that the user can fix the problem.
34748 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3475 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034769 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
34778 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034788 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
34798 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034807 Searching and composing characters:
3481 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003482 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3483 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034848 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
34858 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
34868 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3487 characters.
34888 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
34898 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3490 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
34917 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3492 'display' option to specify this.
34937 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3494 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3495- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3496 fontselector somehow.
3497- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3498 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3499- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3500 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3501- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3502 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3503 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3504 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3505 if a font exists?
3506- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003507 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003508- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3509 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003510- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3511 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3512 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3513 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003514- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3515 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3516 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3517- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3518 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3519 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3520 But it's very complicated...
3521
3522
3523Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000035247 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003525- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3526- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3527 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003528- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3529 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003530- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3531- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3532 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003533- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3534 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003535- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3536 units as for the margins.
3537- Support right-to-left text?
35388 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3539 color.
3540
3541
3542Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035438 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3544 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
35458 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3546 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
35478 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3548 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000035497 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3550 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035518 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3552 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3553 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035547 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3555 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3556 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035578 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
35589 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3559 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035607 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3561 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000035627 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3563 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035648 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3565 change this for each release.
35668 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3567 pattern, but not in the body.
35688 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3569 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3570 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035718 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010035728 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003573 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3574 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035758 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3576 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
35778 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3578 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003579 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035808 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3581 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3582 used.
35838 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3584 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
35858 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3586 re-insert the [] if possible.
35878 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3588 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035898 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3590 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3591 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3592 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3593 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035948 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3595 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
35968 Support for deleting syntax items:
3597 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3598 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3599 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
36008 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3601 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3602 a '<'. (Fleiner)
36037 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3604 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3605 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
36067 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3607 detected.
36088 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003609 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036108 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3611 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036128 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
36138 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
36147 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3615 ":mkvimrc".
36168 Improve c.vim:
3617 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3618 "c_strict_ansi".
3619 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
36208 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3621 current line while in Insert mode.
36228 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3623 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
36248 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3625 display position.
36268 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3627 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3628 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
36298 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3630 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3631 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036327 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3633 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3634 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3635 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3636 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036377 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3638 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3639 E.g. for this html:
3640 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036417 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
36427 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3643 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036448 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
36458 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036467 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3647 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3648 completion?
36498 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3650 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
36517 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3652 select one of the sets.
36538 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3654 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3655 2, etc.
36568 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3657 highlighting (for "." command).
36588 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3659 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
36608 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
36617 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3662 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
36636 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3664 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3665- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3666 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3667- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003668- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3669 (for comment blocks).
3670- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3671 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3672 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3673 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3674 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3675 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3676 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3677 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3678 (Campbell)
3679 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3680 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
36817 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3682 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
36837 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3684 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3685 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
36867 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3687 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3688 messages. And external commands?
36898 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3690 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
36917 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3692 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3693
3694
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01003695Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000036968 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3697 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003698 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000036997 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3700 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3701 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037028 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3703 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003704- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3705 2006 Dec 11.
3706- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020037078 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3708 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3709 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3710 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3711 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3712 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000037137 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3714 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037158 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010037168 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
3717 can be the plugin name.
3718 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
3719 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037207 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3721 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3722 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3723 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3724 autocommand.
3725 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3726 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3727 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3728 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037297 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3730 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037316 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3732 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037338 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003734 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3735 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003736 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3737 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3738 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003739 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3740 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3741 3 2002
3742 Only add this when also implemented for
3743 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3744 be used.
3745 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003746 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3747 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3748 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3749 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3750 File.Open..." argument.
3751 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3752 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3753 with properties instead.
3754 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3755 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3756 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003757 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003758 crypt() encrypt string
3759 decrypt() decrypt string
3760 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3761 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003762 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003763 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003764 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003765 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003766 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003767 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3768 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003769 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3770 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003771 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003772 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3773 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003774 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3775 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3776 to allow the library to execute a command or
3777 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037787 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3779 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
37808 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3781 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037828 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3783 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037848 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020037859 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003786 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
37876 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000037888 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3789 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037908 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3791 option or environment variable.
37928 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037938 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003794 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000037957 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3796 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037978 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3798 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
37998 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
38008 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3801 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3802 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3803 charwise({expr}).
38047 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3805 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3806 buffer for this?
3807 result = scratch(string, command)
3808 result = apply(string, command)
3809 result = execute(string, command)
3810 "command" would use <> notation.
3811 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
38127 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003813
3814
3815Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000038166 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3817 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3818 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3819 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3820 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3821 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3822 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003823
3824
3825Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000038267 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3827 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020038287 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3829 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3830 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3831 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000038328 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3833 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3834 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3835 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003836 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038378 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
38389 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
38398 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
38407 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3841 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
38428 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3843 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3844 when starting up in a color terminal.
38458 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3846 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038478 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3848 function be improved?
38498 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3850 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3851 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3852 this be improved?
38538 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3854 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000038557 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3856 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038577 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3858 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
38597 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3860 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038617 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3862 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3863 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3864 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3865 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3866 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3867 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038688 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3869 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3870 using strcmp() too often?
38717 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3872 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3873 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3874 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3875 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3876 the two blocks to the memfile block.
38777 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3878 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3879 with an argument that can be messed with.
3880 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3881 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
38827 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3883- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
38848 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3885 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3886- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3887 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3888- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3889- Do profiling on:
3890 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3891 - 1000ii<Esc>
3892 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3893 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3894 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3895 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3896 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3897 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003898 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038997 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3900 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3901 changed).
3902 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3903 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3904- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3905- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3906 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3907- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3908 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3909 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3910- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3911 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3912- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3913- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3914 cursor is right of the screen.
39158 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3916 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3917
3918
3919Code size:
39208 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3921- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3922 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
39238 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
39248 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3925 it.
39267 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3927 left out.
39288 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3929 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010039308 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003931
3932
3933Messages:
39348 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3935 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
39368 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3937 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
39388 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3939 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003940- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3941 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3942- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039438 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3944 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039459 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3946 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3947 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3948 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3949 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039508 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3951 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
39528 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3953 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3954 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3955 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3956 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3957 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003958- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003959 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039608 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3961 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3962 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3963 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3964 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3965 error messages, printing text, etc.
39668 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3967 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3968 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3969
3970
3971Screen updating:
39727 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3973 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3974 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3975- screen_line():
3976 - insert/delete character stuff.
3977 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3978- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3979 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3980- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3981 waiting for a character.
39828 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3983 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3984 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003985
3986Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020039878 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039886 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3989- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3990 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3991 windows.
39927 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3993 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3994 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3995- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3996 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3997 (Goldfarb)
3998- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3999 bound windows.
4000- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4001 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004002- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004003- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4004 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4005 of lines but not with a single line).
4006
4007
4008Autoconf:
40098 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
40108 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4011 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4012- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4013 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4014- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4015- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4016- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4017
4018
4019Perl interface:
40208 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040217 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
40227 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
40236 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4024
4025
4026Shared libraries:
40276 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4028 :libload internal-name libname
4029 :libunload internal-name
4030 :liblist
4031 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4032 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4033 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
40346 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4035
4036
4037Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000040389 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4039 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4040 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4041 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4042 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000040438 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4044 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4045 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004046 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004047 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000040487 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4049 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4050 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040518 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
40528 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4053 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040547 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4055 window for each tag.
40567 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
40577 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4058 bottom" search message.
40597 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4060 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4061 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004062- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4063- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004064- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4065 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4066 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040677 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4068 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4069 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4070 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
40717 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4072 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4073 :tagargs clear
4074 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4075 matching).
40767 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4077 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4078 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4079 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
40807 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4081 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
40827 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4083 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4084 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004085
4086
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004087Win32 GUI:
40888 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4089 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040907 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4091 (Mike McCollister)
40928 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4093 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4094 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4095 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4096 common part of the path.
40978 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
40988 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4099 gettext and menus work.
41008 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4101 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004102 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004103 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
41048 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4105 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
41068 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4107 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
41087 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4109 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
41107 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
41117 <Esc> should close a dialog.
41127 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4113 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4114 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4115 prompts.
41167 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4117 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4118 the file added into an already running Vim.
41197 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4120 functions to find the window title.
4121
4122
4123GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020041248 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004125- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4126 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
41277 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
41288 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
41296 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
41308 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4131 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
41329 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
41337 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
41348 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4135 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
41368 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4137 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4138 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
41398 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4140 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
41418 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4142 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4143 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4144 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041457 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
41468 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4147 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000041487 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4149 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4150 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041518 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
41528 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004153 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041548 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
41558 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
41568 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4157 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4158 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
41597 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4160 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4161 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
41627 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4163 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
41647 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4165 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4166 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4167 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041687 Should support multi-column menus.
4169- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4170 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4171- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
41728 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
41736 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4174 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
41757 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
41767 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4177 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4178 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
41797 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
41808 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4181 name can be chosen free.
41827 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4183 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
41846 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4185 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4186 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4187 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4188 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4189 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4190 things.
41917 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4192 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041937 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004194 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004195- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4196 where it was started from?
41977 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4198
4199
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004200Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020042019 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4202 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004203- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010042048 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4205 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4206 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4207 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
42088 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4209 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000042107 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4211 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4212 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4213 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000042147 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000042158 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4216 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042178 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4218 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4219 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000042207 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4221 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4222 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042238 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4224 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4225 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000042268 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4227 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042288 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042296 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4230 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000042317 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042327 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004233 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4234 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4235 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042365 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4237 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4238 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
42397 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4240 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4241 file.
42428 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4243 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4244 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004245- Add events to autocommands:
4246 Error - When an error happens
4247 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004248 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00004249 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
4250 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004251 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00004252 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004253 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4254 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004255 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004256 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004257 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4258 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4259 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4260 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004261 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004262 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4263 the char.
4264 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4265 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4266 file from CVS).
4267 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4268 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4269 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4270 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4271 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4272 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004273 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4274 changes.
4275 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4276 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004277- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004278 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004279 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004280 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4281 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4282 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4283 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4284 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4285
4286
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004287Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004288- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4289 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004290- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4291 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4292 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4293 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4294 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004295- Ideas from others:
4296 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4297 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4298 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4299 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4300 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4301 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4302 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4303 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4304 Uses Perl for C++.
4305 Uses ctags to find the info:
4306 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4307 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4308 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4309 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4310 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4311 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004312 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004313 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4314- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4315
4316
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004317Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004318- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000043197 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4320 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043217 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4322 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4323 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043248 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4325 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
43269 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4327 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4328 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043298 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4330 - ignore/match case
4331 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043328 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4333 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4334 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4335 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4336 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4337 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043388 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000043397 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4340 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043418 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4342 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4343 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4344 Should work for C++ and Java.
4345 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
43467 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
43477 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4348 instead of words.
43498 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
43508 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4351 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
43528 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4353 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004354- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4355 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004356- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4357 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4358 wildcards in the file name)?
4359- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4360- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4361- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4362 be in another file).
4363- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4364- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4365- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4366 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4367- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4368- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4369- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004370- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4371
4372
4373Command line editing:
43747 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4375 line.
43768 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4377 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4378 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4379- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4380 lines wraps to start of line).
4381- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4382 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4383 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4384 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4385 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4386 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4387 cmdwin does now already.
4388 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4389 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4390 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4391 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4392 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4393 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4394 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4395 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4396 Problems:
4397 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4398 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4399 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4400 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4401 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4402 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4403 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4404 character in first column?
4405 - Implementation ideas:
4406 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4407 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4408 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4409 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4410 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4411 Mode.
4412
4413
4414Command line completion:
44158 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
44168 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4417 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
44188 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4419 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044208 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4421 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044227 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4423 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004424- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4425- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4426 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044278 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4428 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
44297 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4430 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4431- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4432 identifiers (Webb).
44338 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4434 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
44357 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4436 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4437- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4438 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4439- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4440 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4441 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004442
4443
4444Command line history:
4445- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4446 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4447 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4448 completely resulted from one mapping.
4449- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4450 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4451
4452
4453Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000044549 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4455 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4456 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044578 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4458 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4459 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4460 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4461 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044628 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4463 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4464 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044657 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4466 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004467- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044687 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4469 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4470- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4471 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4472 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4473 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4474 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4475 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4476- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4477 Normal mode.
4478- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4479 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4480 are used.
4481- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4482- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4483- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4484
4485
4486'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010044879 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4488 char * veryLongName =
4489 "very long string"
4490 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044918 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044928 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4493 long_type foo =
4494 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044958 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4496 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004497 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044988 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4499 func(
4500 new String[] {
4501 "asdf",
4502 "asdf"
4503 }
4504 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010045058 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4506 (Chow Loong Jin)
4507 namespace {
4508 int
4509 func(int arg) {
4510 }
4511 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045126 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4513 func( arg1
4514 , arg2
4515 , arg3
4516 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000045177 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004518 func(
4519 int x) // indent like "(4"
4520 {
4521 if (a
4522 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045239 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4524 if (a)
4525 {
4526 if (b)
4527 {
4528 // {
4529 }
4530 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004531 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4532 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4533 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004534- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004535 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
45367 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4537- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4538 line).
4539- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4540- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4541 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004542- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4543 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4544- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4545 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4546- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4547- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4548 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
45498 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4550 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4551 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4552- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4553- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4554 lines start with "\item".
4555- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4556 /* here is a comment that
4557 is just autoindented, and
4558 nothing else */
4559- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
45607 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4561 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4562 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004563 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004564
4565
4566Java:
45678 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4568 Odendahl?
45698 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4570 "[i" commands and friends.
4571- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4572 (Jason)
4573- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4574 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4575
4576
4577'comments':
45788 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4579 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4580 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4581 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004582 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4583 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045847 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4585 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
45867 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
45876 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4588 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4589 regexp is used.
45908 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4591 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4592
4593
4594Virtual edit:
45958 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045967 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4597
4598
4599Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046008 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046018 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000046028 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004603 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000046048 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4605 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004606 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4607 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000046088 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046098 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4610 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046118 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4612 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4613 the end of the line or before a ".".
46147 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4615 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
46167 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4617 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046186 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
46195 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4620 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4621 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4622 cursor is on.
4623
4624
4625Select mode:
46268 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4627 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
46287 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004629 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046307 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4631 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4632 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4633 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4634 normal_cmd().
4635 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4636 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4637
4638
4639Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020046408 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4641 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004642- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4643 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4644 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004645- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4646 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4647 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046488 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004649 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004650 where needed.
46517 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4652 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
46537 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4654 of each selected line.
46558 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
46568 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4657 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4658 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
46598 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4660 Ben Godfrey)
46617 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4662 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
46637 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4664 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046657 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004666 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004667 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
46688 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4669 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
46707 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4671 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4672 option!
46737 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4674 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4675 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4676 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4677 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4678 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4679 without changing the column.
46806 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046817 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4682 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046836 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4684 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
46856 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046866 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004687 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004688 or other special character.
46896 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4690
4691
4692More advanced repeating commands:
4693- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004694- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004695- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004696 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4697 "y." will repeat last yank.
4698 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4699 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4700 and/or pick an older command.
4701- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4702
4703
4704Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047058 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4706 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4707 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
47088 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
47097 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4710 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047118 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4712 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
47138 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000047147 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047158 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4716 entering search strings.
47178 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4718 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4719 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047208 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4721 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047227 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047237 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4724 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047256 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4726 abbreviations are to be used.
4727- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4728 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4729 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004730- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4731 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4732 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4733 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4734 Or implicit:
4735 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004736- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4737 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4738 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004739- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4740 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4741- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4742 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
47436 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4744 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4745 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4746 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004747- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4748 non-replace Insert mode?
4749- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004750- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4751- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4752 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4753- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004754 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004755- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4756 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4757- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4758- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4759 ":freekeys".
4760- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4761
4762
4763Incsearch:
4764- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4765- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4766 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4767 up every time.
4768- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4769 folds when going to another line.
4770- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4771 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4772 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4773 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004774
4775
4776Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010047779 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000047788 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004779 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004780 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004781 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004782 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047839 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4784 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010047858 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4786 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000047878 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4788 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4789 Perl does it this way:
4790 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4791 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4792 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4793 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047948 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4795 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4796 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000047977 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4798 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000047998 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4800 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000048017 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004802 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4803 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4804 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000048057 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004806 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048077 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4808 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048098 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4810 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
48118 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4812 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020048137 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004814 example.
48158 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4816 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4817- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4818 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4819 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4820 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048218 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4822 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4823 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
48247 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4825 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000048267 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4827 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048288 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4829 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048308 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4831 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048328 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4833 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4834 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4835 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004836- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4837 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004838- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4839 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4840- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4841 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4842 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4843 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048448 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4845 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004846- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4847 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048488 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4849 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4850 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004851- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4852 i ignore case
4853 I use case
4854 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4855 v use Vi regexp syntax
4856 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4857 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4858 Perl uses these too:
4859 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4860 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4861 o compile only once (Perl only)
4862 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4863 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4864 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4865 following command.
4866 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4867- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4868 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4869 for search string)?
48707 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4871 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4872- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4873 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4874- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4875 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4876- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4877- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004878 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004879 a for the next file in the argument list
4880 f for file in the buffer list
4881 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004882 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4883 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004884 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4885 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4886- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048877 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004888 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048897 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4890 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4891 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4892 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
48936 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4894 effects.
48957 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4896 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4897 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000048987 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004899 Also ":dselect".
4900
4901
4902Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010049039 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4904 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
4905 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049069 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4907 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020049088 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4909 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049108 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4911 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4912 timestamp?
4913 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4914 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004915- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4916 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004917- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4918 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4919 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
49208 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4921 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4922 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4923 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
49248 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4925 only remember the lines that really changed.
49267 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4927 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4928 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4929 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004930- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4931 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4932- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4933 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4934- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4935 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4936 [-99].
4937- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4938- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004939- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4940 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4941
4942
4943Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049447 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4945 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4946 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4947 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
49488 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4949 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
49508 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4951 inode too.
49527 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004953 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4954 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049557 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4956 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4957- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4958 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4959- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4960 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
49617 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4962 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
49637 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4964 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
49658 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049667 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4967 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010049688 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4969 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4970 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004971
4972
4973Swap (.swp) files:
49748 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4975 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4976 there are short file name problems.
49778 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4978 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
49798 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
49808 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004981 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004982 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4983 file the same as the actual file?
4984 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049857 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4986 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
49877 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004988 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004989 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4990 enough room.
49917 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4992 or /var/preserve.
4993- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4994 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4995- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4996 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4997- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4998 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4999 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5000 cached list of which line is where.
5001
5002
5003Viminfo:
50047 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5005 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5006 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000050078 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5008 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5009 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050108 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5011 name. (Schild)
50128 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
50138 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050148 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050158 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5016 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5017 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5018 this?
50197 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
50207 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5021 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
50226 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5023 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5024 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5025- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5026 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5027
5028
5029Modelines:
50308 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5031 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5032 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005033- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5034 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5035 'shiftwidth'.
5036- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5037 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005038- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5039 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5040 modeline setting.
5041- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5042 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5043- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5044 .cpp files.
5045- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5046 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5047- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5048 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5049
5050
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005051Sessions:
50528 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5053 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
50547 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5055 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050568 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5057 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050588 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5059 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5060 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000050617 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5062 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000050637 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005064
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005065
5066Options:
50677 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5068 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050698 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5070 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5071 also be supported.
50728 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5073 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5074 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
50757 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
50767 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
5077 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01005078 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005079
5080
5081External commands:
50828 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5083 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
50844 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5085 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5086 -f).
50874 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
50884 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5089 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
50904 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5091
5092
5093Multiple Windows:
50947 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
50958 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5096 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
50977 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5098 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5099 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000051007 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5101 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000051027 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5103 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051046 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5105 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005106 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005107 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
51087 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5109 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5110 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5111 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5112- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5113 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5114 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5115 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5116
5117
5118Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051198 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051208 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5121 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000051228 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 +000051238 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5124 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
51258 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5126 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5127 the mark was set.
51287 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5129 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5130 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5131 ":browse marks"?
51326 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051337 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5134 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
51357 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5136 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
51377 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5138 command).
51397 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5140 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5141 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5142 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
51435 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5144 mappings.
51456 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5146 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5147 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5148
5149
5150Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020051517 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005152 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005153- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5154 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000051558 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051567 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5157 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5158
5159
5160Writing files:
5161- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5162 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5163 shortname conversion.
51648 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
51658 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5166 file.
51678 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5168 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5169 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051706 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5171 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
51726 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5173 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
51746 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5175 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000051768 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005177 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
51787 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5179 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
51807 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5181 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5182 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5183 waiting for a character to be typed).
51848 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5185 line of the window, like "[time]".
5186 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5187 Automatic and/or with a command.
5188
5189
5190Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000051918 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5192 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000051938 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005194 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5195- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5196- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
51978 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5198 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005199- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005200 :s///N substitutes N times.
5201- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5202 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5203 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
52047 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5205 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5206 last line column 5.
52075 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5208 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5209 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5210 (Stanislav Sitar)
5211
5212
5213Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052148 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
52157 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
52168 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5217 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5218 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005219- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5220- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5221 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5222- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5223- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5224
5225
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005226Argument list:
52276 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5228 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5229 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
52306 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5231
5232
5233Registers:
52348 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052358 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5236 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5237 for every line.
52386 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5239 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5240 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5241- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5242 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5243- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5244 leader when line wraps?
5245- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5246 line in the range.
5247- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5248 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
52498 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5250 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005251
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005252
5253Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052548 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000052558 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052567 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
52577 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5258
5259
5260Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000052617 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5262 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5263 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5264 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5265 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5266 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5267 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005268 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000052697 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5270 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000052717 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5272 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052738 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5274 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052757 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5276 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5277 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005278- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005279 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052807 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5281 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052827 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5283 window as a buffer-tab selection.
52848 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052857 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5286 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
52878 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5288 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052896 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052908 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5291 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5292 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5293 in this Vim.
52948 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005295 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052968 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5297 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5298 have it apply to the following command.
52998 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5300 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5301 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5302 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053037 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5304 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053057 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5306 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5307 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5308 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053096 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
53108 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
53119 Support ACLs on more systems.
53127 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5313 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053147 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5315 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5316 (truncated to fit in the space).
53177 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
53188 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
53198 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5320 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000053217 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005322 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
53237 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5324 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053257 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053267 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
53277 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053288 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
53298 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5330 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5331 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5332 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
53338 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053348 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053358 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5336 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5337 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5338 does something like this. (Shah)
53397 Use growarray for replace stack.
53407 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5341 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
53423 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053437 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5344 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010053457 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5346 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005347- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5348- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5349- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5350- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
53517 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5352 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5353- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5354 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005355- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005356- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5357 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5358- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5359 call "play newbeep.au").
5360- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5361 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5362 (Bhatt).
5363- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5364 blockwise registers).
5365- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5366 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5367- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5368 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5369 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5370 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005371- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053727 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5373 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5374- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5375 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5376 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5377 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5378 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053798 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5380 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053818 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5382 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5383 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5384 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5385 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5386- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005387- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053887 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5389 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5390- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5391 not in column 1.
53926 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5393 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
53947 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5395- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005396- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005397 :redir #> bufname
5398 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005399- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5400 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005401- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5402 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5403 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
54046 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5405 console? (Klaus Hast)
5406- Add :delcr command:
5407 *:delcr*
5408 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5409 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5410 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5411 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5412 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5413 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5414- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5415- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5416 characters from 'isprint'.
5417- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5418- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5419 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5420- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5421 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5422 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5423- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5424- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5425 Nvi).
5426- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5427 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
54287 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5429- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5430 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
54316 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5432- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5433 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5434 macro).
5435- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005436- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5437 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5438- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
54398 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005440- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5441- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5442- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5443 if it is not the first or last window.
5444- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5445 there is one) instead of the file itself.
54467 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5447 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5448 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5449- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5450- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005451 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005452 many percent down the windows).
5453- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5454 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5455 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005456 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005457- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5458 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5459- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5460 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5461- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5462- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5463- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5464 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054658 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5466 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5467 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5468 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5469 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005470- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5471 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5472- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005473 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5474- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005475 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5476 (Webb).
5477- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005478 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005479- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5480 hex codes like 0xff).
5481- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5482 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5483 the last TYPED command.
5484- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5485- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5486- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5487 should also work?
5488- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
54898 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5490 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5491 name.
5492- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5493 trailing '.'.
5494- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5495 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5496 find_file_in_path().
5497- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5498 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5499- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5500- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5501 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5502- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005503 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005504- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5505 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5506 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005507- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5508- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5509- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5510 to the minimal size.
5511- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5512- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5513- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5514- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5515- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005516- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5517 entered)?
5518- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5519 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005520- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005521- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5522- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5523- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5524- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5525- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5526 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005527- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055288 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5529 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5530 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5531 or in octal.
55327 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5533 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005534- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005535 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5536- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5537- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5538 insert line command).
5539- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5540- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5541- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5542- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5543- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5544 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005545- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005546 yet.
5547- Implement 'redraw' option.
5548- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5549 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055507 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5551 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005552 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5553 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055548 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5555 do it.
5556- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5557- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5558 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5559- Add text justification option.
5560- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5561- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5562 off".
5563- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5564- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5565- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005566 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005567- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005568- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005569- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5570 commands.
5571- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5572- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5573- :table command (Webb)
5574- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005575- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5576- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5577- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5578- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5579- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5580 (Demirel).
5581- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5582- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5583 for use in macro's and the like.
5584- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005585 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005586- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005587 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005588- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005589 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005590 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5591- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5592 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005593- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005594 mkopttab to make option table?
5595- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5596 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5597- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5598 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005599- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005600 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5601- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5602 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005603- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000056048 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5605 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5606 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5607 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5608 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056098 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5610 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5611 (Netherton)
56126 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5613 space after "(", for example.
56145 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5615 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5616 (Servatius Brandt)
5617
5618
5619From Elvis:
5620- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5621- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005622- Search patterns:
5623 \@ match word under cursor.
5624 but do:
5625 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5626 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
56278 ":window" command:
5628 :win + next window (up)
5629 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5630 :win - previous window (down)
5631 :win -- idem, wrapping
5632 :win nr to window number "nr"
5633 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
56347 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5635 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5636
5637
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005638From xvi:
5639- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5640- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5641
5642
5643From vile:
5644- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5645- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5646 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5647
5648
5649Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005650- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5651 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01005652 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005653 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5654 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005655- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5656 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5657- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5658 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5659 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5660 current layout mirrored.
5661- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5662- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5663 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5664- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5665- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5666 font in each top-level window.
5667- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5668- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5669- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5670- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5671 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005672- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5673 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5674- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5675 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
56764 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5677 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5678 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5679 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005680 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005681 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5682 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5683- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5684 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5685 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5686
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005687vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5688vim: set fo+=n :