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Bram Moolenaard9fba312005-06-26 22:34:35 +00001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Jun 26
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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
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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30 *known-bugs*
31-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
32
Bram Moolenaard9fba312005-06-26 22:34:35 +000033Is the fix for memory leaks in unreferencing dict/list correct? Is there a
34situation where a reference from outside of the structure is not counted?
35
Bram Moolenaar6c0b44b2005-06-01 21:56:33 +000036Add extra list of file locations. Can be used with:
37 :ltag list of matching tags, like :tselect
38
39 :lnext next location
40 :lprevious :lNext previous location
41 :lnfile location in next file
42 :lNfile :lpfile location in previous file
43 :lrewind :lfirst first location
44 :llast last location
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +000045 :ll [N] go to location N (current one if N omitted)
Bram Moolenaar6c0b44b2005-06-01 21:56:33 +000046 :lwindow open window with locations (separate from quickfix window)
47 :lopen open window with locations
48 :lclose close window with locations
49 :llist list locations
50 :lfile read locations from file using 'errorformat'
51 :lgetfile idem, don't jump to first one
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +000052 :lbuffer idem, from current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar0e6830e2005-05-27 20:23:44 +000053
Bram Moolenaar54ee7752005-05-31 22:22:17 +000054Win32: Balloon text can't contain line break.
55 Hints for multiline tooltips from Alexei Alexandrov (2005 Mar 26)
56 Patch from Sergey Khorev, 2005 Apr 11
57 Add has("balloon_multiline")
58
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +000059Win32: Crash when pasting Simplified Chinese in utf-8. (rainux, 2005 June 20)
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Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000061Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung):
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000062- selecting proportional font breaks display
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000063- UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000064
Bram Moolenaar0e6830e2005-05-27 20:23:44 +000065Should we always set LC_CTYPE to "C", so that all library functions work on
66bytes? Avoids problems with sprintf() on MS-Windows. (Yongwei)
67Problem noticed: tooltips are messed up. Depends on the moment 'encoding' is
68changed.
69
Bram Moolenaar6c0b44b2005-06-01 21:56:33 +000070Include new PHP indent script from John Wellesz?
71 http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=4330
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Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +000073In Vim indenting use synID() to avoid recognizing "|en" in a string as
74"|endif".
75
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000076autoload:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000077- Add a Vim script in $VIMRUNTIME/tools that takes a file with a list of
78 script names and a help file and produces a script that can be sourced to
79 install the scripts in the user's directories.
80 Use findfile(), so that only file names need to be given:
81 script plugin/myscript.vim
82 script autoload/mylib.vim
83 script autoload/yourlib.vim
84 helpfile doc/myscript.txt
85 For the "helpfile" item ":helptags" is run.
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000086
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +000087For List comparing, consider [4] and ['4'] different? (Servatius Brandt)
88Also allows strict comparing for ordinary variables.
89
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000090Patch to alternate fold highlighting. (Anthony Iano-Fletcher, 2005 May 12)
91More levels?
92
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000093Awaiting response:
94- Patch for mch_FullName() also in Vim 6.3? os_mswin.c
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000095- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
96 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +000097
Bram Moolenaarf4630b62005-05-20 21:31:17 +000098
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000099
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000100PLANNED FOR VERSION 7.0:
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000101
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000102- Add SPELLCHECKER, with support for many languages.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000103 - Spell checking code todo's:
Bram Moolenaarf461c8e2005-06-25 23:04:51 +0000104 - Special handling of ' and -: define in the .aff file.
105 Aspell does this with "special".
106 - Support user function to make suggestions:
107 :set spellsuggest=MySuggest,fast
108 Also support a list with common mistakes?
109 - For "z?" a "replace all" mechanism would be welcome.
Bram Moolenaarc4def132005-06-23 22:39:27 +0000110 - Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
111 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
112 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g. comments
113 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000114 - Code for making suggestions:
Bram Moolenaar6ad01d62005-06-22 22:37:09 +0000115 - Hebrew: also use prefixes for suggestions. See message from
116 Kaminsky (June 20) for ideas.
Bram Moolenaar6ad01d62005-06-22 22:37:09 +0000117 - The sound-folding doesn't work for multi-byte characters. It's
118 very slow too.
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +0000119 - Simple and fast sound-a-like: mapping list for first char and rest
120 vowel as first char: *
121 remove other vowels
Bram Moolenaard9fba312005-06-26 22:34:35 +0000122 - Proofread and cleanup spell help.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +0000123 - Use "engspchk" from Charles Campbell for ideas (commands, rare words).
Bram Moolenaar29a1c1d2005-06-24 23:11:15 +0000124 - Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
Bram Moolenaar75c50c42005-06-04 22:06:24 +0000125 - References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000126 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000127 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
128 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaard857f0e2005-06-21 22:37:39 +0000129 - Update option window for 'verbosefile', 'spell', 'spellfile',
130 'spellsuggest' and 'spelllang'.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000131 - Distribution: Need wordlists for many languages; "language pack"
Bram Moolenaar54ff3412005-04-20 19:48:33 +0000132 Put them on the ftp site, ready to download. Include README for
133 copyrights.
Bram Moolenaar0e21a3f2005-04-17 20:28:32 +0000134 - Work together with OpenOffice.org to update the wordlists. (Adri
Bram Moolenaar54ff3412005-04-20 19:48:33 +0000135 Verhoef, Aad Nales) Setup vim-spell maillist?
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +0000136 - Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000137 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to
138 existing syntax items (to add @Spell).
139 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
140 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax
141 items.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +0000142 - Install spell files with src/main.aap.
Bram Moolenaar0e4d8772005-06-07 21:12:49 +0000143 - Alternate Dutch word list at www.nederlandsewoorden.nl (use script to
Bram Moolenaarc4def132005-06-23 22:39:27 +0000144 obtain). But new Myspell wordlist will come (Hagen)
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +0000145 - The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in
146 their use of words with a dash.
147 Later:
148 - Implement compound words when it works for Myspell. Current idea has
149 the problem that "foo/X" always allows "foofoo", there is no way to
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000150 specify a word can only be at the start or end, or that only certain
151 words combine.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000152
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000153- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate
154 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004
155 Feb 9).
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +0000156 Move the printing stuff to hardcopy.c.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000157- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific
158 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific
159 code menu, toolbar, etc.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000160- Support using "**" in filename for ":next", ":vimgrep", etc., so that a
161 directory tree can be searched.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000162- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less"
163 like commands.
164- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion.
165 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000166 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000167 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000168 of http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000169 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000170 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000171 Ideas from Emads:
172 http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000173 Can't call it Intellisense, it is a trademark by Microsoft.
174 Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
175 - It's not possible to have one solution for all languages. Design an
176 interface for completion plugins. The matches can be done in a
177 Vim-script list.
178 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
179 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
Bram Moolenaar43b604c2005-03-22 23:06:55 +0000180 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000181 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
182 - Use ctags for other languages. Writing a file could trigger running
183 ctags, merging the tags of the changed file.
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000184 Also see "Visual Assist" http://www.wholetomato.com/products:
185 - Put the list of choices right under the place where they would be
186 inserted.
187 - Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +0000188 - Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000189- UNDO TREE: keep all states of the text, don't delete undo info.
190 When making a change, instead of clearing any future undo (thus redo)
191 info, make a new branch.
192 To navigate through the undo tree number the states of the text
193 sequentially and make it possible to go through the tree in that order.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000194 Use "g+++" to go forward, "g---" to go backward. Can mix - and +.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000195 Could also use timestamps (to show the time and/or jump to a state five
196 minutes ago). (David Schweikert)
197 To go from one state to another: backtrack to a common state, then forward
198 again.
199 Only difficult thing: When going back in time, how to find the previous
200 text state in the tree?
201 Show the list of changes in a window to be able to select a version?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000202- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000203 Use timestamps, so that a version a certain time ago can be found and info
204 before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum time to
205 keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. For the file use dot and
206 extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002077 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000208 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 passed on by Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000209 Don't forget to provide an "X" to close a tab.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000210 Also for the console!
211 In Emacs these are called frames. Could also call them "pages".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000212 Use "1gt" - "99gt" to switch to a tab?
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000213 Simple patch for GTK by Luis M (nov 7).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000214- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
215 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow().
216 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget.
217- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
218 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
219- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye,
220 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it
221 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000222 And the idevim plugin/script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000223 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
224 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
225 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
226 other window.
227 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
228 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
229 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
230 in terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000231- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
232 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
233 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
234 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000235- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
236 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
237 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000238- Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
239 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
240 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00002418 Support four composing/combining characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron)
242 Add the 'maxcombining' option to set the nr. of composing characters.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000243 At the same time support more colors (use two bytes when necessary).
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000244- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical",
245 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21)
246- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed
247 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000248- VimResized autocmd event: When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH)
249 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24.
250 It's not clear that this doesn't cause problems when the executed
251 commands do something like changing 'lines'. Esp. because the
252 screen has not yet been allocated with the new size.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000253- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
254 the Vim shell project can help: http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000255- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +0000256 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenfull, also count the
257 characters.
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +0000258- Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, 2004 June 27)
259 Other patch from Da Woon Jung, 2005 Jan 16.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +00002608 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
261 New patch 2004 Jun 16
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +00002629 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option,
263 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text.
264 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for
265 underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group
266 instead.
267 Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current
268 line.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00002697 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts?
270 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line).
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000271- When using 'incsearch" CTRL-R CTRL-W gets the word under the cursor, but
272 the part that already matched is doubled then. Remove the part of the
273 word that would be doubled. Make it work line CTRL-N in Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000274- Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000275- "onemore" flag in 'virtualedit': move cursor past end of line. Patch by
276 Mattias Flodin (2004 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000277- In a :s command multi-byte characters should also be upper/lower cased
278 with \u, \U, etc.
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000279
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000280Adjust src/main.aap for installing manpages like in Makefile.
281
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +0000282Also generate the .pdb file that can be used to generate a useful crash report
283on MS-Windows. (George Reilly)
284
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000285Add strtol() to avoid the problems with leading zero causing octal conversion.
286
287Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000288Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000289
290Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be several.
291Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
292
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000293Win32: Patch for Korean IME. (Yusung, 2005 March 21)
294
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +0000295When "= evaluation results in a List, use it as a sequence of lines.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +0000296
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000297Support ":set syntax=cpp.doxygen"? Suggested patch by Michael Geddes (9 Aug
2982004). Should also work for 'filetype'.
299
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000300For manipulating buffers without opening a new window, support Virtual
301windows. Example:
302 :virtwin let l = GetBufLine(4, 10)
303 :fun GetBufLine(bufnr, lnum)
304 : exe "buffer " . a:bufnr
305 : return getline(lnum)
306 :endfun
307The getline() and setline() functions could work for other buffers, using a
308Virtual window.
309A Virtual window only exists for one command. There can be several (for
310nested commands). The window works as if it comes after the last window, size
311is the Vim window size, but it's never displayed.
312
313Win32: In the generated batch files, use $VIMRUNTIME if it's set. Examples by
314Mathias Michaelis (2004 Sep 6)
315Also place vimtutor.bat in %windir%?
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000316
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000317Add gui_mch_browsedir() for Motif, KDE and Mac OS/X.
318
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00003197 Add a ":cstring" command. Works like ":cfile" but reads from a string
320 variable. Also accept a list variable? Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan.
321 2005 Feb 17 Now it's ":cexpr".
322
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000323HTML indenting can be slow, find out why. Any way to do some kind of
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +0000324profiling for Vim script? At least add a function to get the current time in
325usec. reltime([start, [end]])
326 reltime().sec == seconds, reltime().usec = microseconds
327 reltime(start) current time relative to [start]
328 echo timestring(reltime(start), 3) (3 is nr of digits after dot)
329 reltime(start, end) difference between start and end
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000330Real Profiling:
331 - :profile start /tmp/somefile (append if exists)
332 - :profile pause
333 - :profile resume
334 - :profile stop
335 - per function line
336 - self, Vim and total time (incl system time)
337 - dump results in file on exit or when stopped.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000338
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000339Add more tests for all new functionality in Vim 7. Especially new functions.
340
Bram Moolenaarf1ab3802005-01-15 22:17:32 +0000341Updated Ruby interface. (Ryan Paul)
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000342
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000343Awaiting updated patches:
344 --- awaiting updated patch ---
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000345 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
346 Aric Blumer has a patch for this.
347 He will update the patch for 6.3.
348 Autocommands:
349 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
350 Update 2004 Sep 6.
351 How does this work? Missing comments.
352 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
353 Update 2004 Sep 10
354 More docs. Search in 'runtimepath'?
355 How to get the messages into the .po files?
356 --- did not respond (yet) --
357 - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
358 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31)
359 Asked for improvements 2004 Dec 20.
360 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible).
361 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last
362 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000363 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
364 (28 feb 2002).
365 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
366 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
367 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
368 for multi-byte characters.
369 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
370 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
371 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
372 been given values.
373 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
374 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
375 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors .
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +0000376 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +0000377 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000378 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
379 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth').
380 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
381 8 Add functions:
382 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
383 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
384 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
385 (2003 May 13)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000386 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
387 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
388 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
389 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
390 - Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
391 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000392 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
393 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
394 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted).
395 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23.
396 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003).
397 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
398 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
399 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
400 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
401 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000402 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
403 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
404 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
405 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
406 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
407 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
408 incomplete patch Mar 18)
409 - Set user variables to the names of the actually used user vimrc file,
410 the first directory looked for user plugins/syntax files.
411 $MYVIMRC for .vimrc, $MYGVIMRC for .gvimrc, $MYRUNTIME/plugin for
412 runtime files?
413 Also: when the environment variable exists, use it. If it doesn't
414 exist, set it. Requires good names: $VIM_USER_VIMRC $VIM_USER_DIR
415 - The Replace dialog takes "\r" literal, unless "replace all" is used.
416 Need to escape backslashes.
417 Win32: the text to replace with isn't remembered.
418 - For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
419 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000420
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000421Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
422
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +0000423Check if file explorer can handle directory names and links with a single
424quote. (Nieko Maatjes, 2005 Jan 4)
425
426
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000427Vi incompatibility:
4288 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
429 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
430 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
431 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
432 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
433 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004348 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000435 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line.
436 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16)
4378 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon
438 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY.
4398 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
440 make Vim exit.
4417 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
442 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
443 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
4448 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
445 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
446 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
4476 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
448 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
449 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
4508 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
451 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
452 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
453 names in one buffer???
454 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
455 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
456 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
4577 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
458 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
459 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +0000460 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
461 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004627 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
463 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
4647 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
4657 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
4667 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
467 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
4687 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
469 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
470 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
471 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
4727 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
4737 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
4747 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
475 to the match with the tag? Option?
4767 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
4777 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
478 (Sayre).
4797 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
480 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004817 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
482 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
483 match. Nvi can do it too.
4847 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
485 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
486 line 1\ line 2\\
487 line 2\ line 3\\
488 . line4/
4896 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
490 the way the shell is started?
4916 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
492 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
493
494
495GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2):
4968 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops
497 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL
498 pointer if the menu was never displayed.
4998 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a
500 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also
501 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies
502 the minimal window width?
5038 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can
504 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar)
5058 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by
506 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes.
507
508GTK+ GUI known bugs:
5098 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
510 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
511 creating a label?
5129 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
513 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
514 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
515 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
5167 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1).
517
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000518KDE GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000519- There is no active maintenance and "yzis" is supposed to replace it.
520- With the default 'guifont' value bold text differs in size from normal
521 text, causing the display to be messed up.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000522- Error messages when starting up. The "tip of the day" box is empty.
523- Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000524
525Win32 GUI known bugs:
5268 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
527 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
5288 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
529 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
530 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
5318 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
532 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
5337 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
534 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
535 "lucida_console:h8").
5366 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
537 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00005388 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
539 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
540 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005417 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
542 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
543 to use an opaque background in most places?
5448 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
545 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
546 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
5478 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
548 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
549 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
5507 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
551 2004 May 9)
5528 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
553 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
554 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
555 MS-Windows 98?
556 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
557 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
558 file: Window moves with the cursor!
559 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
5608 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to
561 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005628 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
563 appear. (Sami Salonen)
5648 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo)
5658 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
566 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
567 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
568 doesn't work properly.
5698 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
570 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
571 appears in the right position. (Webb)
5729 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
573 button doesn't give popup menu.
574 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
575 selection.
576 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
577 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
578 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
5798 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
580 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
581 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
582 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
5838 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
584 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
585 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005867 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
587 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
588 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
5897 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
590 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
591 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse
592 anyway.
5937 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
594 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
5957 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
596 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
5976 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
5988 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
599 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
600 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
6018 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
602 know which keyboard is being used?
6037 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
604 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
605 area (Koloseike).
6068 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
607 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
608 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
609 the font name).
610
611
612Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006136 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
614 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
615 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
616 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
617 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006189 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
619 required and it's missing?
6208 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
621 wrong.
6229 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
623 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006249 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000625 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
626 flag.
6278 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
628 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
629 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
6308 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
6316 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
632 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
633 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
634 the tooltips work though...
6357 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
636 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
6378 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
638 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
639 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
640
641
642Athena GUI:
6439 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
644 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
645 through files.
6467 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
647 read long file names. (Schroeder)
6484 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
649 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
650 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
651 problem during a refresh.
6525 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
653 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
654 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
655 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
656 colors as it should.
657 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
658 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
659
660
661Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006627 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
663 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006648 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
665 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
666 (Phillipps)
667
668
669GUI:
6709 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
671 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
6729 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
673 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
674 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
6759 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
676 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
6778 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
678 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
6798 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
680 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
681 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
6828 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
683 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
684 of where it is processing the output.
685 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
6868 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
687 doesn't work.
6888 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
6898 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006908 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
691 browse().
6928 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
693 use that code? Or use console dialog.
6948 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
695 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006967 More features in the find/replace dialog:
697 - regexp on/off
698 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
699 when all buffers/directory is used:
700 - filter for file name
701 when directory is used:
702 - subdirectory on/off
703 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00007048 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
705 to avoid problems.
7068 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
707 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
708 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
7098 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
710 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
711 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
7128 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
713 up. Set erase character somehow?
7148 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
715 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
716 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
717 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
7188 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
7197 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
720 visible.
7217 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
722 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
7237 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
724 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
7258 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
726 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
7278 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
728 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
729 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
730 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
731- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
7324 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
733 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
734 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
735
736
737MSDOS/DJGPP:
7389 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
739 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
740 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
7418 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
742 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
7439 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
744 code and reduce static data.
7459 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
746 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
747 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
748 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
7499 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
750 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
751 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
752 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
753 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
754 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
755 Make this work like in Win32 console.
756 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
757 key code. Use a translation table?
7589 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
759 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
7608 Use DJGPP 2.03.
7618 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
762 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
7638 setlocale() is bogus.
7648 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
765 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
766 Windows 95 system!
7678 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
7687 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088
769 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
7707 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
771 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
772 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
7738 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
774 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
7757 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
776 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
777 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
778 "[New file]".
7797 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
780 that is supported?
7818 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
7828 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
783 Briscoe)
784
785
786MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
7878 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
788 gen_expand_wildcards().
7898 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
790 Wagner.
7918 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
7928 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
793 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
7948 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH?
7958 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
796 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
7978 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
798 Should work like in the GUI version.
7998 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
800 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
8018 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
802 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
8038 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
804 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
805 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
8068 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb"
807 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
8088 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
809 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
810 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
811
812
813Windows 95:
8148 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file
815 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
816 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
8178 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
818 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
819
820
821Win32 console:
8229 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
823 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
824 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
825 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
826 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
827 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
828 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
829 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
830 and the file is not saved.
831 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
832 long name.
8338 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
834 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
8357 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
836 besides the console.
8378 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
8389 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
839 <C-S-i>?
8409 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
841 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
8428 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
843 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008447 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
845 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
846 exiting.
847
848
849Amiga:
8508 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
851 sequences.
8529 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
853 backslashes in result.
8548 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
855 all options, using white space separation.
856
857
858Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00008597 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
860 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
861 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008627 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
863 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
864 (Jack)
865 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
8668 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
867 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
8688 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008699 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
870 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
8718 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
8728 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
8738 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
8748 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
8759 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
876 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
8779 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
878 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
8799 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
880 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
8819 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
8828 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
8838 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
884
885
886"Small" problems:
8878 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
888 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
889 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000890 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008919 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
892 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though
893 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to
894 check for the buffer to be unmodified.
8958 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
896 error number, it's not a regular error message.
8977 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
898 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
8998 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
900 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
901 for redirection.
9027 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local
903 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses
904 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009057 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
906 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009078 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
908 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
909 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
910 using the horizontal scrollbar.
9117 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
912 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
913 invocations belong together.
9148 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
915 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
9168 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
917 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
918 UnxUtils.zip archive.
919 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
920 Briscoe says it's not as good.
9218 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters.
9229 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from
923 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with
924 syntax highlighting is also very slow.
925 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters?
9268 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
927 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
9287 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
929 use "~/" when possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009307 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
931 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
932 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
933 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
9348 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
935 defined.
9367 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
937 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
938 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
9397 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
940 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
941 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
9427 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
943 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
9447 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown)
9457 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
946 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
9479 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000948 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000949 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely)
9509 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
951 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
952 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
953 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
954 script can be called.
9558 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
956 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
957 works.
9589 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use
959 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained
960 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002.
9618 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
962 CTRL-C.
9637 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
964 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
965 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
966 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
967 won't work for GTK anyway.
9688 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
969 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00009708 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000971 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
972 configurable?
9738 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
9749 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
975 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
976 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
9778 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a
978 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz)
9798 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
980 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
9818 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
982 always written, even when the original file already exists.
9837 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
984 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
9859 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
986 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
987 written.
9889 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an
989 error number.
9907 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009918 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
992 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
993 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
9948 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
995 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
9969 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
997 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
998 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
999 one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000010007 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
1001 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
10027 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
1003 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
10047 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
1005 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
1006 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
1007 direction, not horizontally?
10088 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a
1009 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long.
10108 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001011 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
1012 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
1013 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
1014 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001015 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
1016 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001017 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001018 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break.
1019 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
1020 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
1021 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
1022 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
1023 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
10248 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
1025 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
10269 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
1027 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
1028 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000010298 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
1030 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
10318 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
1032 in lines that don't extend into the block?
10338 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
1034 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
1035 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
10368 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
1037 'linebreak'.
10388 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
1039 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
1040 (Helmut Stiegler)
10418 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends
1042 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler)
10439 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
1044 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
1045 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
1046 'magic' in history. (Margo)
10479 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
1048 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
10499 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
1050 isn't updated).
10519 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
10529 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
1053 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
1054 cause another redraw, etc.
10558 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
1056 must escape special characters in the pattern.
10578 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
1058 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
1059 ":w!!" for that.
1060 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
1061 restore file to readonly afterwards.
10627 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
1063 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
1064 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
1065 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
1066 clipboard)
10677 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
1068 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
1069 Waggoner)
10708 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
1071 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
1072 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000010736 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
1074 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
1075 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000010768 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
1077 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
10788 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
1079 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
1080 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
10818 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
1082 (e.g., ":w").
10838 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
1084 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
10858 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
1086 for ">>".
10878 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
1088 script in do_cmdline().
10898 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
1090 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
1091 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
1092 changes.
10938 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
1094 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
10958 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
1096 check for file marks. This can be slow.
10977 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
1098 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
1099 needed.
1100 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
11018 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
1102 to skip catch_signals()?
11039 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
1104 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
1105 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
1106 text?
11078 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
1108 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
11098 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
1110 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
11119 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
1112 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
1113 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
1114 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
1115 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
11167 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
1117 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
1118 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
1119 in the list?
11208 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
1121 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
1122 instead of on button down.
11238 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
11249 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
1125 reaching the end of the available buffer.
11268 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
1127 character is typed.
11288 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
1129 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
11308 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
1131 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
11328 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
1133 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
1134 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
1135 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
1136 cygwin bash.
11377 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
1138 Remember flags for backreferences.
11397 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
1140 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
11417 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
1142 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
11438 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
1144 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
11457 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
1146 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011477 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
1148 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
1149 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
11507 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
1151 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
11528 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
1153 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
1154 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
11557 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
1156 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001157
1158
1159I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
11609 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
1161 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
1162 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001163
1164
1165Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00001166- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
1167 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001168 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00001169 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
1170 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
1171 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001172- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
1173 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
1174 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
1175 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
1176 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
1177- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
1178 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
1179 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
1180- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
1181 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
1182- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
1183 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
1184 character gets the highlighting.
1185- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
1186 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
1187- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
1188 (Jennings)
1189- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
1190- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
1191 errors. How do we get the rest?
1192- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001193- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001194 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
1195- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
1196 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
1197 first?
1198- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
1199 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
1200- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
1201 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
1202 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
1203- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
1204 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
1205 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
1206 (Benzinger).
1207- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
1208 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
1209 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
1210- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
1211 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
1212- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
1213 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
1214- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
1215 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
1216 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
1217 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
1218 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
1219 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
1220- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
1221 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
1222 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
1223- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
1224 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
1225 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
1226- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
1227 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
1228- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
1229 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
1230- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
1231 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1232- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
1233 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
1234- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
1235 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
1236 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
1237 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
1238 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
1239- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
1240 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
1241 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
1242- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
1243 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
1244 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001245- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
1246 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 +00001247- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
1248 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
1249 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
1250 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
1251 in the vimrc file to be lost.
1252- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
1253 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
1254
1255--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
1256 *extensions-improvements*
1257
1258Documentation:
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000012598 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
1260 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000012618 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
1262 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012638 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012647 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
12659 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
1266 - change to cursor position and curswant
1267 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
1268 - how it works for folded lines
1269 - how it works with multi-byte characters
12709 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
1271 work too.
12728 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
1273 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
1274 text.
12758 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
12767 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
1277 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
12787 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
1279 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
1280- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
1281
1282
1283Help:
1284- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
1285 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
1286- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
1287 to the other matches.
1288- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
1289- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
1290- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
1291 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
1292 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
1293 default contents.
1294- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
1295 height for the help window (and other windows).
1296- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
1297- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
1298- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
1299
1300
1301User Friendlier:
13028 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
1303 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
1304 Briscoe)
13058 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
13068 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
1307 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
1308 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
13098 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
1310 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
1311- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
1312 ":mkplugin <file>"?
13138 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
1314 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
1315 'runtimepath'.
1316 " Vim plugin
1317 <main plugin code>
1318 " >>> plugin help start <<<
1319 <plugin docs>
1320- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
13219 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
1322 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
1323 item?).
1324 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013258 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
13267 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
1327
1328
1329Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013308 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
1331 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
1332 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
13337 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
1334 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
1335 location.
1336
1337
1338Folding:
1339 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY;
1340 secondary: zB zS zT zZ)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000013418 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013428 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level.
1343 (Noel Henson)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000013447 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013458 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
1346 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
1347 user aware of this?
13488 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
1349 commands skip over a closed fold.
13508 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
13518 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013527 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001353- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
1354 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
1355 missing line goes unnoticed.
1356 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001357- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
1358 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
1359 smoother?
1360- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
1361 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
1362- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
1363- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001364 Or is the conceal patch from Vince Negri a more generic solution?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001365- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to
1366 implement this?
1367- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
1368 cursor.
1369- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001370- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000013718 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001372 searches.
1373
1374
1375Multi-byte characters:
13769 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
1377 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
1378 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
1379 byte).
13808 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
1381 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
1382 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
1383 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
1384 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
1385 item.
13868 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001387 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
1388 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013898 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
1390 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001391 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001392 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013938 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
1394 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
13957 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
1396 so that the user can fix the problem.
13978 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
1398 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013999 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
14008 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014018 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
14028 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014038 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2.
14047 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
14058 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
14068 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
14078 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
1408 characters.
14098 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
14108 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
1411 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
14127 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
1413 'display' option to specify this.
14147 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
1415 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
1416- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
1417 fontselector somehow.
1418- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
1419 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
1420- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
1421 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
1422- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
1423 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
1424 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
1425 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
1426 if a font exists?
1427- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +00001428 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001429- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
1430 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
14317 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
1432 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
1433- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters.
1434- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and
1435 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard.
1436- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
1437 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
1438 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
1439- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
1440 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
1441 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
1442 But it's very complicated...
1443
1444
1445Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000014467 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001447- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
1448- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
1449 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001450- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
1451 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001452- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
1453- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
1454 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001455- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support
1456 different 'encoding' values somehow.
1457- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
1458 units as for the margins.
1459- Support right-to-left text?
14608 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
1461 color.
1462
1463
1464Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014658 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
1466 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
14678 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
1468 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
14698 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
1470 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
14718 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
1472 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
1473 ":wq file".
14748 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
14759 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
1476 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014777 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
1478 Search highlighting.
14798 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
1480 change this for each release.
14818 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
1482 pattern, but not in the body.
14838 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
1484 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
1485 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014868 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
14878 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
1488 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
1489 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
1490 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
14918 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
1492 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
14938 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
1494 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
1495 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one.
14968 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
14978 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
1498 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
1499 used.
15008 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
1501 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
15028 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
1503 re-insert the [] if possible.
15048 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
1505 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015068 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
1507 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
15088 Support for deleting syntax items:
1509 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
1510 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
1511 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
15128 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
1513 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
1514 a '<'. (Fleiner)
15157 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
1516 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
1517 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
15187 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
1519 detected.
15208 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001521 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015228 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
1523 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015248 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
15258 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
15267 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
1527 ":mkvimrc".
15288 Improve c.vim:
1529 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
1530 "c_strict_ansi".
1531 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
15328 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
1533 current line while in Insert mode.
15348 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
1535 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
15368 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
1537 display position.
15388 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
1539 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
1540 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
15418 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
1542 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
1543 highlighting starts.
15447 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
1545 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
1546 E.g. for this html:
1547 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
15487 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
1549 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
1550 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
15517 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
15527 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
1553 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015547 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'.
15558 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
15568 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
15578 Add more command line completion for :sign.
15587 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
1559 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
1560 completion?
15618 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
1562 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
15637 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
1564 select one of the sets.
15658 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
1566 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
1567 2, etc.
15688 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
1569 highlighting (for "." command).
15708 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
1571 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
15728 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
15737 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
1574 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
15756 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
1576 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
1577- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
1578 when extending an already existing syntax file.
1579- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001580- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
1581 (for comment blocks).
1582- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
1583 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
1584 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
1585 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
1586 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
1587 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
1588 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
1589 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
1590 (Campbell)
1591 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
1592 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
15937 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
1594 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
15957 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
1596 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
1597 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
15987 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
1599 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
1600 messages. And external commands?
16018 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
1602 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
16037 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
1604 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
1605
1606
1607Built-in script language:
16088 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
1609 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016108 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for
1611 'shellslash', for example.
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001612- Add "{range}source": execute lines from a buffer.
1613 Alternative: Allow range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command.
1614 (Webb)
1615 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016168 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
16178 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
1618 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
1619 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
1620 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
1621 nested packages?
1622 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
1623 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
1624 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
16257 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000016267 Add the markclear() function to delete a mark in another buffer. Charles
1627 Campbell (2004 Jan 9)
1628 http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch
1629 Implement setmark(markname, lnum [, col [, filename]]) instead?
1630 When "lnum" is zero delete the mark.
1631 When "filename" has no wildcards and there is no matching buffer, add
1632 the buffer (unlisted).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016337 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
1634 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
1635 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
1636 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
1637 autocommand.
1638 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
1639 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
1640 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
1641 file belongs to a sourced script?
16427 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey
1643 Marinichev)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016447 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
1645 signs and/or 'number'.
16468 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001647 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
1648 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
1649 3 2002
1650 Only add this when also implemented for
1651 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
1652 be used.
1653 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001654 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
1655 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
1656 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
1657 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
1658 File.Open..." argument.
1659 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
1660 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
1661 with properties instead.
1662 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
1663 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
1664 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001665 printf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash???
1666 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001667 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001668 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001669 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001670 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001671 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion
1672 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
1673 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
1674 Visual block mode.
1675 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists)
1676 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001677 getbufline() get line from any buffer
1678 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
1679 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001680 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
1681 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
1682 to allow the library to execute a command or
1683 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016847 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
1685 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
16868 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
1687 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
16888 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0?
16898 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
16908 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has
1691 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time.
16927 Add optional arguments to user functions:
1693 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
16946 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
16958 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore.
16968 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
1697 option or environment variable.
16988 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
16997 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the
1700 stack available (separated with '\n').
17018 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
1702 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
17038 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
17048 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
1705 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
1706 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
1707 charwise({expr}).
17087 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
1709 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
1710 buffer for this?
1711 result = scratch(string, command)
1712 result = apply(string, command)
1713 result = execute(string, command)
1714 "command" would use <> notation.
1715 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
17167 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
17177 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
1718 option for the search path. (Sekera)
17197 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001720
1721
1722Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000017236 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
1724 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
1725 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
1726 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
1727 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
1728 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
1729 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001730
1731
1732Performance:
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +000017337 For strings up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list itself as a
1734 character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017358 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to
1736 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed?
17378 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
17389 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
17398 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
17407 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
1741 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
17428 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
1743 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
1744 when starting up in a color terminal.
17458 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
1746 Win16.
17479 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a
1748 redraw.
17498 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
1750 function be improved?
17518 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
1752 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
1753 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
1754 this be improved?
17558 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
1756 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000017577 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
1758 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017597 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
1760 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
17617 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
1762 lot of abbreviations).
17637 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
17647 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
1765 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
1766 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
1767 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
1768 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
1769 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
1770 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
17718 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
1772 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
1773 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
1774 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
17758 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
1776 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
1777 using strcmp() too often?
17787 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
1779 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
1780 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
1781 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
1782 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
1783 the two blocks to the memfile block.
17847 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
1785 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
1786 with an argument that can be messed with.
1787 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
1788 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
17897 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
1790- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
17918 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
1792 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
1793- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
1794 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
1795- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
1796- Do profiling on:
1797 - :g/pat/normal cmd
1798 - 1000ii<Esc>
1799 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
1800 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1801 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
1802 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
1803 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
1804 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
1805 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
18067 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
1807 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
1808 changed).
1809 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
1810 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
1811- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
1812- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
1813 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
1814- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
1815 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
1816 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
1817- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
1818 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
1819- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
1820- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
1821 cursor is right of the screen.
18228 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
1823 CTRL-C (it's slow).
1824
1825
1826Code size:
18278 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
1828- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
1829 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
18308 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
18318 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
1832 it.
18337 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
1834 left out.
18358 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
1836 can be removed.
18378 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
1838
1839
1840Messages:
18418 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
1842 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
18438 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
1844 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
18458 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
1846 script.
18478 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output
1848 from messages using printf() go to stdout?
1849- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
1850 Perhaps after ten seconds?
1851- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
18529 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
1853 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
1854 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
1855 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
1856 redrawing.
18577 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which
1858 match that regexp (Tsirkin).
18598 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
1860 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
18618 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
1862 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
1863 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
1864 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
1865 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
1866 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001867- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001868 sleep before second message?
18698 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
1870 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
1871 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
1872 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
1873 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
1874 error messages, printing text, etc.
18758 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
1876 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
1877 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
1878
1879
1880Screen updating:
18817 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
1882 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
1883 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
1884- screen_line():
1885 - insert/delete character stuff.
1886 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
1887- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
1888 dragging the status line with the mouse).
1889- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
1890 waiting for a character.
18918 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
1892 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
1893 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
18947 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001895
1896
1897Scrolling:
18988 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
18996 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
1900- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
1901 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
1902 windows.
19037 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
1904 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
1905 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
1906- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
1907 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
1908 (Goldfarb)
1909- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
1910 bound windows.
1911- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
1912 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00001913- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001914- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
1915 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
1916 of lines but not with a single line).
1917
1918
1919Autoconf:
19208 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
19218 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
1922 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
1923- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
1924 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
1925- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
1926- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
1927- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
1928
1929
1930Perl interface:
19318 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019327 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
19337 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
19346 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
1935
1936
1937Shared libraries:
19386 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
1939 :libload internal-name libname
1940 :libunload internal-name
1941 :liblist
1942 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
1943 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
1944 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
19456 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
1946
1947
1948Tags:
19498 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
1950 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
19518 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag.
1952 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico
1953 Hendriks)
19547 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match
19558 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
19568 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
1957 to type the tag number directly.
19587 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki)
19597 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
1960 window for each tag.
19617 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
19627 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
1963 bottom" search message.
19647 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
1965 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
1966 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00001967- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
1968- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019697 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
1970 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
1971 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
1972 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
19737 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
1974 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
1975 :tagargs clear
1976 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
1977 matching).
19787 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
1979 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
1980 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
1981 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
19827 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
1983 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
19847 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
1985 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
1986 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001987
1988
1989Security:
1990- nothing at the moment
1991
1992
1993Win32 GUI:
19948 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
1995 the message and input?
19967 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1997 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
1998 dynamically?
19997 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
2000 (Mike McCollister)
20018 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
2002 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
2003 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
2004 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
2005 common part of the path.
20068 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
20078 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
2008 gettext and menus work.
20098 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
2010 return in every console.
2011 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands:
2012 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
20138 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
2014 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
20158 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
2016 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
20177 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
2018 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
20197 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
20207 <Esc> should close a dialog.
20217 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
2022 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
2023 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
2024 prompts.
20257 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
2026 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
2027 the file added into an already running Vim.
20287 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
2029 functions to find the window title.
2030
2031
2032GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020338 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
2034- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
2035 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
20367 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
20378 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
20386 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
20398 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
2040 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
20419 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
20427 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
20438 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
2044 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
20458 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
2046 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
2047 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
20488 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
2049 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
20508 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
2051 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
2052 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
2053 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020547 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
20558 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
2056 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
20577 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character
2058 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly
2059 double-width. (Maeda)
20608 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
20618 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00002062 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020638 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
20648 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
20658 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
2066 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
2067 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
20687 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
2069 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
2070 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
20717 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
2072 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
20737 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
2074 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
2075 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
2076 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
20777 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
2078 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
20797 Should support multi-column menus.
2080- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
2081 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
2082- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
20838 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
20846 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
2085 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
20867 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
20877 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
2088 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
2089 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
20907 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
20918 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
2092 name can be chosen free.
20937 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
2094 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
20956 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
2096 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
2097 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
2098 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
2099 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
2100 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
2101 things.
21027 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
2103 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021047 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002105 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002106- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
2107 where it was started from?
21087 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
2109
2110
2111VMS:
2112- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling.
2113- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK
2114 works just on 7.3).
2115
2116
2117Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000021187 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
2119 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
2120 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
2121 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021228 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
2123 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000021247 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021258 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
2126 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
2127 difficult).
21288 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode?
21297 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user
2130 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind
2131 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
21328 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event
2133 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a
2134 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively.
21358 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
2136 And anything else?
21378 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
2138 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
2139 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
21408 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
21418 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
2142 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
21436 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
2144 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
21457 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c
2146 file.
21477 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an
2148 autocommand event OpenDirectory.
21497 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
2150 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
2151 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
2152 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
21535 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
2154 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
2155 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
21567 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
2157 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
2158 file.
21598 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
2160 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
2161 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002162- Add events to autocommands:
2163 Error - When an error happens
2164 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
2165 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode
2166 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
2167 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode
2168 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00002169 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00002170 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
2171 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00002172 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002173 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002174 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
2175 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
2176 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
2177 window title)
2178 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
2179 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
2180 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
2181 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
2182 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
2183 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
2184 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
2185 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
2186 the char.
2187 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
2188 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
2189 file from CVS).
2190 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
2191 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
2192 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
2193 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
2194 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
2195 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
2196 WinResized - When a window has been resized
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002197- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the
2198 file now and then ('autosave').
2199 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
2200 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0)
2201 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
2202 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
2203 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
2204 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
2205 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
2206
2207
2208Insert mode completion/expansion:
22098 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
2210 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
22119 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
2212 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
2213 (Webb)
22148 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper
2215 comments.
22168 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
2217 - ignore/match case
2218 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022198 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
22208 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
2221 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
2222 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
2223 Should work for C++ and Java.
2224 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
22257 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
22267 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
2227 instead of words.
22288 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
22298 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
2230 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
22318 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
2232 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
2233- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
2234 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
2235 wildcards in the file name)?
2236- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
2237- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
2238- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
2239 be in another file).
2240- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
2241- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
2242- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
2243 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
2244- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
2245- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
2246- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
22478 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
2248 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
2249 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
2250 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
2251- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
2252
2253
2254Command line editing:
22557 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
2256 line.
22578 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
2258 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
2259 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
2260- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
2261 lines wraps to start of line).
2262- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
2263 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
2264 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
2265 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
2266 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
2267 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
2268 cmdwin does now already.
2269 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
2270 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
2271 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
2272 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
2273 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
2274 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
2275 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
2276 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
2277 Problems:
2278 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
2279 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
2280 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
2281 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
2282 - Normal: no ":" commands?
2283 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
2284 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
2285 character in first column?
2286 - Implementation ideas:
2287 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
2288 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
2289 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
2290 - sync undo after entering a command line?
2291 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
2292 Mode.
2293
2294
2295Command line completion:
22968 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
22978 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
2298 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
22998 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
2300 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023017 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
2302 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002303- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
2304- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
2305 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
23068 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023078 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
2308 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
23097 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
2310 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
2311- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
2312 identifiers (Webb).
23138 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
2314 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
23157 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
2316 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
2317- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
2318 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
2319- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
2320 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
2321 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002322
2323
2324Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000023259 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
2326 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
2327 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002328- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
2329 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
2330 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
2331 completely resulted from one mapping.
2332- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
2333 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
2334
2335
2336Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000023379 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
2338 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
2339 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023408 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
2341 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
2342 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
2343 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
2344 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
23457 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
2346 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023477 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
2348 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
2349- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
2350 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
2351 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
2352 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
2353 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
2354 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
2355- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
2356 Normal mode.
2357- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
2358 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
2359 are used.
2360- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
2361- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
2362- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
2363
2364
2365'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000023668 Wrong indent below ? : with ():
2367 if ((a ? (b) : c) != 0)
2368 aligns with ":".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023698 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments:
2370 Foo::Foo (int one,
2371 int two)
2372 : something(4)
2373 {}
23748 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines:
2375 Foo::Foo (int one, int two)
2376 : something(4),
2377 somethingelse(3)
2378 {}
23799 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger)
2380 int main ()
2381 {
2382 if (lala)
2383 do
2384 ++(*lolo);
2385 while (lili
2386 && lele);
2387 lulu;
2388 }
23899 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax)
2390 void function(int param) {
2391 if (false)
2392 return;
2393 }
23949 brace not indented correctly:
2395 case 'c': if (cond)
2396 {
2397 Should align with "if" in case statement.
23987 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching
2399 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf &&
2400 asdf
2401 )
24028 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
2403 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
24048 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
2405 func(
2406 new String[] {
2407 "asdf",
2408 "asdf"
2409 }
2410 );
24117 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
2412 func(
2413 int x) // indent like "(4"
2414 {
2415 if (a
2416 && b) // indent like "(0"
24178 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway)
2418 main() { char foo[] = "/*";
2419 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C
2420 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above.
2421 */
2422 hello
24239 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
2424 if (a)
2425 {
2426 if (b)
2427 {
2428 // {
2429 }
2430 } <-- this is indented incorrect
24319 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner)
2432 (void) MyFancyFunction(
2433 argument);
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002434- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002435 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
24367 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
2437- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
2438 line).
2439- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
2440- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
2441 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
24427 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
2443- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
2444 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
2445- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
2446 code), unless the line starts with "*".
2447- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
2448- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
2449 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
24508 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
2451 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
2452 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
2453- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
2454- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
2455 lines start with "\item".
2456- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
2457 /* here is a comment that
2458 is just autoindented, and
2459 nothing else */
2460- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
24617 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
2462 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
2463 indents.
2464 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs.
2465 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and
2466 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases.
2467
2468
2469Java:
24708 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
2471 Odendahl?
24728 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
2473 "[i" commands and friends.
2474- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
2475 (Jason)
2476- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
2477 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
2478
2479
2480'comments':
24818 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
2482 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
2483 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
2484 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00002485 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
2486 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024877 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
2488 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
24897 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
24906 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
2491 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
2492 regexp is used.
24938 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
2494 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
2495
2496
2497Virtual edit:
24988 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
24997 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the
2500 end of the line?
25017 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
2502
2503
2504Text objects:
25058 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000025068 Add text object for part of a CamelHumedWord and under_scored_word.
2507 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000025088 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
2509 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002510 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
2511 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000025128 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025137 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
2514 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
25158 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
2516 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
2517 the end of the line or before a ".".
25187 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
2519 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
25207 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
2521 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025226 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
25235 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
2524 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
2525 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
2526 cursor is on.
2527
2528
2529Select mode:
25308 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
2531 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
25327 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
2533 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
25347 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
2535 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
2536 contains 'C' or 'A'.
2537 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
2538 normal_cmd().
2539 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
2540 - Typing text replaces the selection.
2541
2542
2543Visual mode:
2544- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
2545 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
2546 is in the top line.
25478 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
2548 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
2549 where needed.
25507 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
2551 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
25527 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
2553 of each selected line.
25548 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
25558 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
2556 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
2557 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
25588 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
2559 Ben Godfrey)
25607 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
2561 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
25627 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
2563 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
25647 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
2565 Young is working on this)
25667 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00002567 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002568 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
25698 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
2570 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
25717 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
2572 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
2573 option!
25747 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
2575 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
2576 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
2577 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
2578 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
2579 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
2580 without changing the column.
25816 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025827 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
2583 current buffer.
25847 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
25856 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
2586 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
25876 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
25886 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them.
25896 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002590 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002591 or other special character.
25926 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
2593
2594
2595More advanced repeating commands:
2596- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000025977 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002598 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002599- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002600 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
2601 "y." will repeat last yank.
2602 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
2603 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
2604 and/or pick an older command.
2605- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
2606
2607
2608Mappings and Abbreviations:
26098 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with
2610 ":verbose set".
26118 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
2612 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
2613 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
26148 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
26157 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
2616 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
26178 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined.
2618 m_script_ID can be used.
26198 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
2620 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
26218 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
26228 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
2623 entering search strings.
26248 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
2625 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
2626 not the <Space>.
26278 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
26288 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
2629 (?) work.
26307 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose
2631 set".
26328 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
2633 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
2634 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
26357 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
26367 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002637 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002638 option.
26397 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
2640 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
26417 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
2642 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
2643 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
26447 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
26456 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
2646 abbreviations are to be used.
2647- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
2648 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
2649 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
2650- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
2651- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
2652 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
2653 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002654- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
2655 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
2656- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
2657 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
2658- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
2659 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
26606 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
2661 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
2662 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
2663 hit another character.
2664- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
2665 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
2666 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
2667 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
2668 Or implicit:
2669 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
2670- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
2671 non-replace Insert mode?
2672- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
26736 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow
2674 mappings with arguments.
2675- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
2676- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
2677 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
2678- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002679 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002680- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
2681 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
2682- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
2683- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
2684 ":freekeys".
2685- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
2686
2687
2688Incsearch:
2689- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
2690- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
2691 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
2692 up every time.
2693- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
2694 folds when going to another line.
2695- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
2696 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
2697 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
2698 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
2699- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
2700 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
2701
2702
2703Searching:
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000027047 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
2705 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000027068 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
2707 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
2708 Perl does it this way:
2709 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
2710 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
2711 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
2712 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000027137 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
2714 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000027158 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
2716 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000027177 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002718 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
2719 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
2720 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
27217 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
2722 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000027237 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
2724 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for an offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027257 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
2726 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027278 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
2728 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
27298 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
2730 line.
27317 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
2732 example.
27338 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
2734 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
2735- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
2736 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
2737 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
2738 Alternative: use matchit.vim
27398 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
27408 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
2741 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
2742 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
27437 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
2744 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000027457 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
2746 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027478 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
2748 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
2749 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
27508 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
2751 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
27528 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
2753 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
2754 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
2755 search pattern.
2756- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
2757 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
2758- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
2759 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
2760 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
2761 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
27627 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic.
2763- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
2764 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
2765- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
2766 i ignore case
2767 I use case
2768 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
2769 v use Vi regexp syntax
2770 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
2771 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
2772 Perl uses these too:
2773 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
2774 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
2775 o compile only once (Perl only)
2776 s single line expression (we don't need it)
2777 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
2778 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
2779 following command.
2780 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
2781- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
2782 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
2783 for search string)?
27847 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
2785 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
2786- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
2787 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
2788- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
2789 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
2790- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
2791- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002792 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002793 a for the next file in the argument list
2794 f for file in the buffer list
2795 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002796 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
2797 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002798 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
2799 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
2800- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028017 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002802 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028037 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
2804 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
2805 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
2806 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
28076 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
2808 effects.
28097 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
2810 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
2811 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000028127 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002813 Also ":dselect".
2814
2815
2816Undo:
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00002817- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
2818 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002819- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
2820 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
2821 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
28228 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
2823 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
2824 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
2825 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
28268 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
2827 only remember the lines that really changed.
28287 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
2829 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
2830 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
2831 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002832- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
2833 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
2834- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
2835 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
2836- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
2837 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
2838 [-99].
2839- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
2840- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
2841- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's
2842 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with
2843 viminfo?
2844- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
2845 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
2846
2847
2848Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028497 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
2850 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
2851 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
2852 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
28538 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
2854 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
28558 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
2856 inode too.
28577 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002858 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
2859 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028607 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
2861 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
2862- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
2863 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
2864- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
2865 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
28667 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
2867 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
28687 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
2869 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
28708 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000028718 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002872 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
28737 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
2874 internal use and for when executing an external program?
2875
2876
2877Swap (.swp) files:
28788 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
2879 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
2880 there are short file name problems.
28818 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
2882 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
28838 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
28848 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002885 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002886 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
2887 file the same as the actual file?
2888 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028897 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
2890 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
28917 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002892 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002893 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
2894 enough room.
28957 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
2896 or /var/preserve.
2897- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
2898 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
2899- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
2900 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
2901- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
2902 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
2903 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
2904 cached list of which line is where.
2905
2906
2907Viminfo:
29087 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
2909 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
2910 else's viminfo file.
29118 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
2912 name. (Schild)
29138 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
29148 Remember the last used register for "@@".
29158 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
2916 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
2917 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
2918 this?
29197 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
29207 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
2921 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
29226 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
2923 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
2924 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
2925- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
2926 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
2927
2928
2929Modelines:
29308 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
2931 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
2932 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
2933- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
2934 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
2935 modeline setting.
2936- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
2937 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
2938- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
2939 .cpp files.
2940- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
2941 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
2942- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
2943 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
2944
2945
2946Options:
29478 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer.
29488 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
2949 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
29507 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
2951 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
2952 side effect.
29538 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
2954 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
2955 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000029567 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
2957 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029588 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
2959 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
2960 also be supported.
29618 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
2962 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
2963 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
29647 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
29657 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
2966 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
29677 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on
2968 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
2969
2970
2971External commands:
29728 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
2973 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
29744 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
2975 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
2976 -f).
29774 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
29784 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
2979 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
29804 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
2981
2982
2983Multiple Windows:
29847 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
29858 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
2986 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
29877 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
2988 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
2989 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
29907 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'.
29916 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
2992 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002993 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002994 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
29957 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
2996 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
2997 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
2998 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
2999- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
3000 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
3001 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
3002 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
3003
3004
3005Marks:
30068 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
3007 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000030088 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 +000030098 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
3010 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
30118 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
3012 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
3013 the mark was set.
30147 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
3015 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
3016 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
3017 ":browse marks"?
30186 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030197 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
3020 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
30217 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
3022 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
30237 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
3024 command).
30257 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
3026 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
3027 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
3028 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
30295 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
3030 mappings.
30316 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
3032 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
3033 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
3034
3035
3036Digraphs:
30377 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
3038 Also the keymap?
3039- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
3040 below/above).
3041- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
3042 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000030438 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030447 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
3045 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
3046
3047
3048Writing files:
3049- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
3050 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
3051 shortname conversion.
30528 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
30538 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
3054 file.
30558 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
3056 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
3057 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
30587 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
3059 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
30606 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
3061 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
30626 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
3063 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
30646 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
3065 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000030668 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003067 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
30687 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
3069 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
30707 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
3071 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
3072 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
3073 waiting for a character to be typed).
30748 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
3075 line of the window, like "[time]".
3076 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
3077 Automatic and/or with a command.
3078
3079
3080Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000030818 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
3082 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000030838 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003084 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
3085- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
3086- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
30878 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
3088 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003089- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003090 :s///N substitutes N times.
3091- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
3092 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
3093 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
30947 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
3095 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
3096 last line column 5.
30975 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
3098 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
3099 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
3100 (Stanislav Sitar)
3101
3102
3103Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031048 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
31057 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
31068 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
3107 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
3108 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
31097 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support.
3110- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
3111- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
3112 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
3113- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
3114- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
3115
3116
3117Crypt and security:
31188 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and
3119 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003120
3121
3122Argument list:
31236 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
3124 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
3125 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
31266 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
3127
3128
3129Registers:
31308 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
31318 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
3132 around in windows.
31338 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
3134 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
3135 for every line.
31366 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
3137 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
3138 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
3139- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
3140 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
3141- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
3142 leader when line wraps?
3143- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
3144 line in the range.
3145- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
3146 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
31478 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
3148 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00003149
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003150
3151Debug mode:
31527 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
31538 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000031548 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031557 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00003156 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
3157 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
3158 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031597 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
31607 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
3161
3162
3163Various improvements:
31648 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
3165 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00003166- Perhaps ":cexpr" could read errors from a list?
3167 Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
3168 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031696 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
3170 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
31716 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
31727 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
3173 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
3174 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
31757 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
3176 window as a buffer-tab selection.
31777 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
3178 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
31798 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
3180 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031817 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile".
31826 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031838 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
3184 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
3185 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
3186 in this Vim.
31878 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003188 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031898 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
3190 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
3191 have it apply to the following command.
31928 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
3193 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
3194 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
3195 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031967 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
3197 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031987 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
3199 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
3200 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
3201 without modifier (unless mapped).
32028 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints.
32037 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim?
32046 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
32058 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
32069 Support ACLs on more systems.
32077 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
3208 highlighted differently.
32098 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032107 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
3211 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
3212 (truncated to fit in the space).
32137 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
32148 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
32158 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
3216 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000032177 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003218 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
32197 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
3220 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032217 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032227 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
32237 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032248 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
32258 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
3226 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
3227 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
3228 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
32298 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
32306 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
3231 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
32328 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
32338 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside
3234 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after
3235 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc..
3236 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates
3237 the file before doing ":w" in Vim.
3238 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into
3239 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write.
32408 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
3241 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
3242 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
3243 does something like this. (Shah)
32447 Use growarray for replace stack.
32457 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
3246 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
32473 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
32488 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt?
3249 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one
3250 line down, etc.
32518 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands.
3252 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that
3253 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have
3254 to be made for all functions that list something.
32557 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
3256 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
3257- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go
3258 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003259 jumps). (Webb) Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032607 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to
3261 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use
3262 "3 g CTRL-^" for this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003263- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
3264- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
3265- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
3266- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
32677 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
3268 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
3269- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
3270 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
3271- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
3272- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
3273 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
3274- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
3275 call "play newbeep.au").
3276- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
3277 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
3278 (Bhatt).
3279- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
3280 blockwise registers).
3281- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
3282 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
3283- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
3284 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
3285 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
3286 noticeable.
32879 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another
3288 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command.
3289- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032907 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
3291 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
3292- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
3293 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
3294 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
3295 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
3296 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +000032977 Add a way to define an item list with a pattern in 'formatoptions'. The
3298 'n' flag doesn't work for "6.3" or "6a.".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032998 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the
3300 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'.
33018 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
3302 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
3303 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
3304 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
3305 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
3306- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00003307- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033087 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
3309 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
3310- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
3311 not in column 1.
33126 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
3313 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
33147 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
3315- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
33168 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of
3317 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003318- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003319 :redir #> bufname
3320 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003321- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
3322 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003323- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
3324 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
3325 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
33266 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
3327 console? (Klaus Hast)
3328- Add :delcr command:
3329 *:delcr*
3330 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
3331 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
3332 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
3333 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
3334 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
3335 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
3336- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
3337- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
3338 characters from 'isprint'.
3339- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
3340- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
3341 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
3342- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
3343 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
3344 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
3345- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
3346- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
3347 Nvi).
3348- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
3349 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
33507 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
3351- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
3352 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
33536 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
3354- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
3355 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
3356 macro).
3357- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003358- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
3359 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
3360- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
33618 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
3362- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
3363- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
3364- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
3365- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
3366 if it is not the first or last window.
3367- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
3368 there is one) instead of the file itself.
33697 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
3370 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
3371 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
3372- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
3373- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003374 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003375 many percent down the windows).
3376- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
3377 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
3378 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
3379- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
3380 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
3381- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
3382 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
3383- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
3384- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
3385- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
3386 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033878 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
3388 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
3389 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
3390 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
3391 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003392- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
3393 t_bs is set? (Webb)
3394- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003395 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
3396- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003397 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
3398 (Webb).
3399- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003400 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003401- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
3402 hex codes like 0xff).
3403- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
3404 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
3405 the last TYPED command.
3406- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
3407- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
3408- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
3409 should also work?
3410- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
34118 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
3412 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
3413 name.
3414- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
3415 trailing '.'.
3416- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
3417 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
3418 find_file_in_path().
3419- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
3420 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
3421- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
3422- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
3423 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
3424- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003425 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003426- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
3427 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
3428 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003429- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003430 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
3431- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
3432- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
3433- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
3434 to the minimal size.
3435- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
3436- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
3437- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
3438- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
3439- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
3440- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
3441- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
3442 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
3443- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
3444 entered)?
3445- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
3446 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003447- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003448- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
3449- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
3450- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
3451- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
3452- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
3453 lines.
3454- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase?
34558 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
3456 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
3457 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
3458 or in octal.
34597 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
3460 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003461- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003462 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
3463- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
3464- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
3465 insert line command).
3466- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
3467- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
3468- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
3469- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
3470- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
3471 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003472- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003473 yet.
3474- Implement 'redraw' option.
3475- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
3476 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034777 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
3478 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00003479 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
3480 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034818 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
3482 do it.
3483- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
3484- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
3485 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
3486- Add text justification option.
3487- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
3488- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
3489 off".
3490- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
3491- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
3492- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003493 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003494- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
3495- If file does not exists, check if directory exists.
3496- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
3497- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
3498 commands.
3499- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
3500- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
3501- :table command (Webb)
3502- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
3503- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with
3504 internal scripting language or Perl?
3505- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
3506- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
3507- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
3508- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
3509- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
3510 (Demirel).
3511- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
3512- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
3513 for use in macro's and the like.
3514- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003515 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003516- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
3517 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
3518- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
3519 read-only mode).
3520- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003521 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003522 a window to become smaller (Webb).
3523- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
3524 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003525- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003526 mkopttab to make option table?
3527- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
3528 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
3529- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
3530 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003531- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003532 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
3533- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
3534 cursor?
3535- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
3536- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
35375 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
3538 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000035398 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
3540 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
3541 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
3542 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
3543 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035448 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
3545 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
3546 (Netherton)
35476 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
3548 space after "(", for example.
35495 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
3550 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
3551 (Servatius Brandt)
3552
3553
3554From Elvis:
3555- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
3556- Add ":alias" command.
3557- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
3558- Search patterns:
3559 \@ match word under cursor.
3560 but do:
3561 \@w match the word under the cursor?
3562 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
35638 ":window" command:
3564 :win + next window (up)
3565 :win ++ idem, wrapping
3566 :win - previous window (down)
3567 :win -- idem, wrapping
3568 :win nr to window number "nr"
3569 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
35707 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
3571 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
3572
3573
3574From Nvi:
3575- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
3576- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
3577- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
35788 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
3579- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
35806 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
3581 :bg :hide
3582 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
3583 :dis b :ls
3584 :Edit fname :split fname
3585 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
3586 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
3587 :Previous :sprevious
3588 :Tag :stag
3589
3590
3591From xvi:
3592- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
3593- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
3594
3595
3596From vile:
3597- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
3598- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
3599 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
3600
3601
3602Far future and "big" extensions:
3603- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
3604 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
3605- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
3606 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
3607 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
3608 current layout mirrored.
3609- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
3610- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
3611 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
3612- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
3613- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
3614 font in each top-level window.
3615- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
3616- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
3617- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
3618- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
3619 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
3620- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
3621 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
3622 mentioned in the tags file.
3623 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
3624 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
3625- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
3626 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
3627- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
3628 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
36294 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
3630 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
3631 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
3632 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003633 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003634 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
3635 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
3636- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
3637 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
3638 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
3639
3640
3641vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
3642vim: set fo+=n :