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Bram Moolenaarddbb5552012-04-26 20:17:03 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2012 Apr 26
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
33
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +020037Go through list of maintainers that didn't respond. (Thilo Six, Mar 19)
38
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020039Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010040
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020041Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
42
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +010043Stack trace of crash: http://vpaste.net/GBt9S
44(Alexandre Provencio)
45
Bram Moolenaarddbb5552012-04-26 20:17:03 +020046Patch for IBM z/OS makefile. (Stephen Bovy, 2012 Apr 26)
47
48Test 77 fails if cksum uses tabs instead of spaces. (Michael Soyka, 2012 Apr
4925)
50
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010051Once syntax and other runtime files have been fixed: add "set cp" to
52check.vim. Use a function to run both with 'cp' and 'nocp'.
53
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +010054GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
55(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +010056
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +020057Patch: home_replace() does not work whtn 8.3 filename. (Yasuhiro
58Matsumoto, 2012 Apr 18) Asked for another version of the patch.
59
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +010060Win32: When a directory name contains an exclamation mark, completion doesn't
61complete the contents of the directory. No escaping for the "!"? (Jan
62Stocker, 2012 Jan 5)
63
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +020064Patch for crash involving curwin->w_s. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 20)
65What is the cause? Leaks memory? Other solution?
Bram Moolenaarddbb5552012-04-26 20:17:03 +020066More debug info Apr 26.
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +020067
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +010068Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +010069
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +010070Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
71not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010072
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020073Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
74Or use expand('<sid>')?
75
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010076Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar causes
77the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan 12)
78Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
79
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010080URXVT:
81- will get stuck if byte sequence does not containe expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010082- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
83 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
84
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010085When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
86for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
87Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010088
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020089Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 22)
90- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
91 below/above).
92
93Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 24, updated patch)
948 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
95 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
96
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020097Patch to add "onselected" callback for completion. (Taro Muraoka, 2011 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010098Another for CompleteFuncOk. (Florian Klein, 2012 Jan 31)
99Name it "CompleteFuncDone".
100
101Patch for Make_mvc.mak and Make_ming.mak for Ruby support. (Yasuhiro
102Matsumoto, 2012 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200103
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100104Patch to add completion for :history command. (Dominique Pelle, 2012 Feb 26)
105
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200106Patch for 'backupcopy' default behavior for symlinks on Windows. (David Pope,
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001072012 Mar 21, update Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200108
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200109Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
110
111Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
112
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100113Use a count before "v" and "V" to select that many characters or lines?
114(Kikyous)
115
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200116Problem with winfixheight and resizing. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Sep 17)
117Patch Sep 18.
118
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200119Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
120And one for gui_x11.txt.
121
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200122Patch for Python: add pyeval()(zyx, 2012 Apr 15, update Apr 16)
123Also changes for Lua. Update Apr 19. Update Apr 22.
124
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100125":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
126finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
127Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
128
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200129Problem with l: dictionary being locked in a function. (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200130
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100131Issue 48: foldopen error can't be caught by try/catch
132
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200133Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
134they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
135
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100136Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
137
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100138Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
139Nov 20)
140
Bram Moolenaar53bfca22012-04-13 23:04:47 +0200141Patch to add ":py3do". (Lilydjwg, 2012 Apr 7)
142
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100143`[ moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
144(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
145
146Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
147
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200148Updated syntax file for ssh_config, maintainer doesn't respond.
149(Leonard Ehrenfried, 2011 Sep 26)
150
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100151BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
152Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
153
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200154"fC" doesn't position the cursor correctly when there are concealed
155characters. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Oct 11)
156
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100157Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
158Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
159
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100160Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
161
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100162Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
163Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
164
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200165'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
166'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
167Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200168Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200169
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200170'cursorline' is drawn incorrectly in diff mode. Patch by Christian Brabandt,
1712012 Apr 2.
172
173'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
174highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
175
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200176With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
177(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
178need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
179
180Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
181only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
18221, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
183
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100184Win32: Does building a 64 bit version with VC9 give warnings for int
185conversions? (Mike Williams)
186
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100187Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
188New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
189
190Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
191Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
192
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100193Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
194Jan 19)
195
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200196Win32: default for 'backupcopy' is wrong for a symbolic link. (mklink one
197two). (Benjamin Fritz, 2012 Mar 15)
198
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200199Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200200
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100201"2" in 'formatopions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
202Oct 26)
203
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200204Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
205
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200206With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
207register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200208
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200209In GTK Gvim, setting 'lines' and 'columns' to 99999 causes a crash (Tony
210Mechelynck, 2011 Apr 25). Can reproduce the crash sometimes:
211 gvim -N -u NONE --cmd 'set lines=99999 columns=99999'
212(gvim:25968): Gdk-WARNING **: Native Windows wider or taller than 65535 pixels are not supported
213The program 'gvim' received an X Window System error.
214This probably reflects a bug in the program.
215The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
216 (Details: serial 313 error_code 161 request_code 149 minor_code 8)
217 (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
218 that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
219 To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
220 option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
221 backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
222Check that number of pixels doesn't go above 65535?
223
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200224popup completion menu closes quickly when there is a fold in the buffer. (Jan
225Christoph Ebersbach, 2011 Jul 3)
226
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200227Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
228
229This line hangs Vim, because of syntax HL:
230call append(line, "INFO ....12....18....24....30....36....42....48....54....60....66....72....78%$")
231
232When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
233(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
234
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100235Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
236Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
237
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200238Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
239
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200240Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
241doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
242Jun 17)
243
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100244When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
245then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
246from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
247
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200248Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
249":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
25015)
251
252Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
253
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200254Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
255
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200256On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
25764 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
258right type.
259
260string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
261(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
262
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200263Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
264
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200265When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
266(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
267
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200268When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
269doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
270
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002717 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
272Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
273
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200274maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
275mapping, how to restore the script ID?
276
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200277Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
278(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
279
280Highlighting stops working after changing it many times. Script to reproduce
281it: Pablo Contreras, 2010 Oct 12 Windows XP and 7. Font is never freed?
282
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200283When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
284indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
285the help file.
286
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200287After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
288Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
289
290Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
291
292"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
293
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200294Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
29530)
296
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200297Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
298May 24) Update May 26.
299
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100300Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
301
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200302When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
303following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
304(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
305
306Problem with "syn sync gouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
307
308Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
3092010 Dec 18)
310
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200311With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
312number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
313Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
314
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02003158 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
316Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
317
3188 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
319 after typing something.
320Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
321function that resets did_cursorhold.
322Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
323
3247 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
325Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
326Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
327
3289 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
329 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
330Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
331
332Patch to fix \%V item in regexp. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Nov 8)
333Update Nov 19. James Vega: still not right. Christian: it's difficult.
334
335Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
336Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
337
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200338In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
339or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
340sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
341
342GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
343doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
344
345GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
346
347Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
348Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
349
350Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
351
3527.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
353there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
354do?
355
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200356Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
35722)
358
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100359New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
360- move compflags to separate growarray?
361- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*", '+'. What would be
362 the maximum repeat for * and +?
363
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100364"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
3652011 Feb 27)
366
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200367Copy/paste between Vim and Google chrome doesn't work well for multi-byte
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200368characters. (Ben Haskell, 2010 Sep 17)
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200369When putting text in the cut buffer (when exiting) and conversion doesn't work
370properly, Prepend "ENC==={value of 'enc'}:" to the text and don't convert?
371Then it should at least work from Vim to Vim and in other applications it's
372clear why it doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200373Experimental patch by Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 19.
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200374
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200375Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
376^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
377
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100378When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
379exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
3809) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
381
382g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
383the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
384
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100385Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
386crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
387
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100388Python: Adding line to buffer other than the current one doesn't work
389correctly. (Rozbujnik, 2010 Dec 19)
390
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200391Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
392names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
393Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
394the system encoding (usually utf-8).
395
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200396Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
397Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
398
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200399'beval' option should be global-local.
400
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100401Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200402
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200403setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200404
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02004057 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
406 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
407 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
408
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200409getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
410element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
411Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Check that new argument is optional
412and that it's documented.
413
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200414With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
4152010 Oct 24)
416
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100417Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
418Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
419
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200420Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
421
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200422When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
423Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
424
Bram Moolenaardc685ab2010-08-13 21:16:49 +0200425Test 73 fails on MS-Windows when compiled with DJGPP and run twice. How to
426delete the Xfind directory? Add an rmdir() function, just like we have
427mkdir().
428
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200429":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
430
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200431'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
432
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100433C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
434checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
435Issue 46.
436
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100437When 'paste' is changed with 'pastetoggle', the ruler doesn't reflect this
438right away. (Samuel Ferencik, 2010 Dec 7)
439
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200440Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
441
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100442Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
443gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
444
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200445":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
446accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
447
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200448Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
449setwinvar().
450
Bram Moolenaar9de99972010-08-09 22:33:06 +0200451Echo starts in the wrong column:
452 while 1 | let s = input('A') | echo 'R' | endw
453(Boyko Bantchev, 2010 Aug 9)
454
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100455Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
456
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100457When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
458(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
459
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200460Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200461(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200462
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200463When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
464instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
465
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100466Crash in setqflist(). (Benoit Mortgat, 2010 Nov 18)
467
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200468Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
469Winckler, 2011 May 11)
470Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100471
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100472Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
473back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
474
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100475Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
476one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
477Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 17. Needs test.
478
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100479Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200480Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
481
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100482CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
483the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
484FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
485
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200486Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
487Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
488
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200489Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
490Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
491
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100492I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
493Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
494an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100495
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200496Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
497
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100498Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
499non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100500
501iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
502Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
503or replace with a character and continue?
504
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100505Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
506Requires configure check for localtime().
507Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
508
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100509Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
510Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
511path.
512
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100513Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
514Dominique can't reproduc it.
515
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200516'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
517
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200518":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
519like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
520
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100521Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200522Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
523
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100524Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
5252010 Nov 5)
526
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100527Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
528Jan 7)
529
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100530Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
531Only with "vim -u NONE".
532
533Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
534
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100535With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
536entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
537Feb 12)
538
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200539Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
540characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
541
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100542Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
543
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200544Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
545 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
546
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200547Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert
548mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg)
549Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100550
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200551Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce
552it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274.
553(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27)
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100554Generally, folding with 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to
555find out why.
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200556
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200557Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
558
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200559When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
560Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
561
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100562Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file. Works OK for
563echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar 17)
564
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100565When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
566not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
567string value.
568
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200569":e ~br<Tab>" does not complete to ":e /home/bram/". Would need to use
570getpwent() to find all the matches.
571
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100572Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
573
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100574For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
575line argument -noregister.
576
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100577When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
578missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
579
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200580When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
581doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100582
583Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
584(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
585Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
586There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
587Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
588
589":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
590highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
591to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
592
593Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
594Probably needs a bit of work.
595
596List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
597Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
598
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200599Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
600
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100601Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
602
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200603Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
604Sep 1)
605
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100606Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
607
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +0200608Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
609on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
610
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100611Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
6122009 Jul 18)
613
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100614Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
615Added test, updates, June 23.
616
617Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
618window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
619Needs more work.
620
621Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
622
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100623When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
624few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
625
626'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
627(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
628
629Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
630J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
631
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200632When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
633for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
634
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200635Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
636
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200637Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
638
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100639When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
640
641":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
642because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
643ex_docmd.c.
644
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200645Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100646Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
647
648string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
649for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
650
651Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
652
653'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
65420)
655
656Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
657And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
65823)
659
660Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
6612009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
662
663Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
664
665Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
666SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
667
668When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
669cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
670
671When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
672indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
673(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
674
675Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
676are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
677Ignore window options when not in the right window?
678Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
679that doesn't have a window.
680
681When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
682doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
683
684getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
685displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
686
687":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
688
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100689There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
690was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
691perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
692
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +0200693Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
694
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200695Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
696file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
697system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
698
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100699Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
700work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
701Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
702
703Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
704
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100705Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
706command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
707
708Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
709
710Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
711does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
712
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200713opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
714height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +0200715very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200716
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100717Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
718(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
719
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100720Session file generates error upon loading, cause bu --remote-silent-tab.
721(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
722
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100723Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
724char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
725
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100726A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (Zyx, 2010 Dec 25)
727
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100728Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
729messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
730es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
7312009 Jan 26)
732
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100733When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100734in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
735Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
736
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100737Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
738a modeline.
739
740Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
741Sergey Khorev)
742
743Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
744part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000745
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000746netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
747number to be below last visible line.
748
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100749After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
750correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
751
752Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
753(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
754
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100755shellescape() depends on 'shellshash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
756'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
757Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
758unix-like shell?
759
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100760Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
761that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
762
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200763Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
764register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
765(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
766
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100767Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
768Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
769
770Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
771make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
772
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100773When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
774still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
775
776"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
777(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
778
779Update src/testdir/main.aap.
780
781"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
782
783Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
784that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
785ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
786Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
787
788Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
789
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000790Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
791
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100792MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
793doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
794probably causes this.
795
796'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02007972009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100798
799Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
800 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
801 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
802(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
803
804Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
805":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
806option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
807is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000808
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100809":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
810first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000811
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000812Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
813laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
814Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000815
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100816Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
817anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
818
819On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
820doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
821Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
822Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
823
824":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
825
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000826When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
827'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
828fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
829the buffer to be unmodified.
830Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
831another look at it.
832
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100833c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
834(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
835
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100836You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
837error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
838Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
839at the other match for 0xBF.
840
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000841Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000842
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100843When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
844argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
845
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000846Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
847backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
848
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200849Win32: bold font doesn't work when 'guifontwide' has been set. (Yue Wu, 2010
850Aug 23)
851
852When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
853line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
854
855Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
856position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
857
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000858After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
859(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000860command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000861
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000862":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
863Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
864
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100865Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
866Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
867
868When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
869either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
870put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
871
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000872Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
873Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
874Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
875Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
876(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
877
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100878Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
879
880ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000881
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000882Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
883(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
884escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
885an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000886This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
887July 7)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000888
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000889Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
8902008 May 14)
891
892Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
893Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
894'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
895
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100896Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
897Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
898
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000899Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
900Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
901
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100902Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
903
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000904The utf class table is missing some entries:
905 0x2212, minus sign
906 0x2217, star
907 0x2500, bar
908 0x26ab, circle
909
910Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
911line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
912
913GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
914Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
915
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100916Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
917try the Cocoa version.
918
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000919Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
920changed or the window is resized.
921
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100922GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
923the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
924
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000925Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
926Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000927
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000928Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
9291) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
930
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000931C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
932with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
933Try to reproduce at work.
934
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100935Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
936Is there a way to list all the files first?
937
938When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
939result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
94016)
941
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200942Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
943Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
944
945Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
946(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
947
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000948Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
949Await response to question to make the register writable.
950
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100951src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
952remark why.
953
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000954Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
9551)
956
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100957In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
958each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
959
960try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
961
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100962try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
963
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100964":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
965Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
966
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100967Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
968
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000969Including NFA regexp code:
970Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
971Useful in tests.
972Performance tests:
973- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
974- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
975- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100976- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100977- ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000978- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
979 'hlsearch'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000980
981Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
982Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
983
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000984Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
985Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
986Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000987
988C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
989(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
990
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100991Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
992":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200993Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100994
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000995When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
996and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
997
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000998Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
999 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1000
1001New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1002
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001003":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1004a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1005
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001006'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1007Likonen, March 19)
1008
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001009Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1010other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1011
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001012The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1013appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1014matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1015
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001016When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1017character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1018'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1019(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1020
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001021Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1022Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001023
1024More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1025
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001026Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1027http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1028
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001029Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1030back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1031Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001032
1033Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1034No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1035
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001036Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1037terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001038
1039Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1040
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001041Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1042but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1043that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001044
1045When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1046
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001047Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1048Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1049
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001050Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1051popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1052size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1053This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1054
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001055Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1056a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1057isn't right?
1058
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001059When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1060it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1061
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001062Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1063then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1064files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001065Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1066indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1067":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
1068in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
1069quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
1070Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001071
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001072When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1073parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1074neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1075particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1076Jun 3)
1077However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1078the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001079
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001080A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1081Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1082
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001083Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1084Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1085
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001086Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1087switch list is noticed:
1088 switch (i)
1089 {
1090 case 1:
1091 foobar:
1092 }
1093
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001094Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1095
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001096Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1097with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1098go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1099moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1100
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001101Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001102Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010011038 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1104 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1105 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001106
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001107Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
110864-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1109
1110Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1111Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1112Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1113argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1114(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1115
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001116Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1117(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1118
1119Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1120makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1121.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1122 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1123
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001124Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
11252007 Feb 8)
1126
1127Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
1128 Sutcliffe says it works well.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001129 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001130 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
1131
1132Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1133set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001134
1135Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1136
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001137Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1138
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001139Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1140Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1141New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1142patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1143
1144Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1145Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1146
1147Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
1148Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
1149Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
1150
1151Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1152
1153Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
11542007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001155Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001156
1157Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001158label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1159
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001160Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1161with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1162Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001163
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001164Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1165pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
1166
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001167Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1168
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001169Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001170Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001171Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
1172
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001173Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1174Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1175only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1176
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001177Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
1178Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
1179
1180Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1181Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
1182Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
1183properly?
1184
1185Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
11862007 Jun 21)
1187
1188When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1189Jun 18)
1190
1191If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1192
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001193Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1194windows. (Adam George)
1195
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001196F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1197modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1198K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001199
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001200UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1201to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1202
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001203In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1204the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1205
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001206C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1207
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001208":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1209
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001210When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001211error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001212
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001213Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1214use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1215
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001216Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1217if_ruby.c.
1218
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001219":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1220
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001221Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
1222Needs more work.
1223
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001224The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1225it in keep_msg?
1226
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001227Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001228error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001229name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1230
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001231Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1232longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001233
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001234Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1235Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1236Also for ":w" without a file name.
1237The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001238
1239"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1240Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1241
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001242VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1243directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1244(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1245
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001246VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1247
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001248input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1249name?
1250
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001251Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1252
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001253When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1254(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1255Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1256will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1257
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001258gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1259This also fails with --remote.
1260
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001261When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
12622008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1263all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1264
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001265":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
1266Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
1267
1268aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1269
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001270When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1271(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1272
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001273Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1274the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1275
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001276GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1277
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001278Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1279superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1280
1281Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1282character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1283
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001284Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1285Jun 5)
1286
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001287Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
12882008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1289Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1290
1291In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1292but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1293Jul 22)
1294
1295There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1296
1297Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1298":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1299somehow? Or use a new function.
1300
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001301Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1302
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001303Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
1304that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001305
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001306Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1307moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1308that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1309
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001310The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1311
1312Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1313loading all files.
1314
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001315Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
1316line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
1317after starting up?
1318
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001319When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001320cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1321the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1322
1323Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1324has been created.
1325
1326Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1327shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1328fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1329background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1330A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001331
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001332These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1333 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1334 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1335 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1336
1337Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1338partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1339
1340In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1341buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1342reload it then?
1343
1344New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1345previous version.
1346
1347For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1348
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001349Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1350only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1351
1352Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1353tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1354doesn't contain other directories.
1355
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001356Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1357 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1358 set background=dark
1359This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1360color is, not reset it.
1361
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001362Linux distributions:
1363- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1364 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1365 xfree-xterm".
1366- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1367
1368Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1369start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1370show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1371middle?
1372
1373When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001374(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001375connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1376dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1377
1378Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1379
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001380When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1381current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1382the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1383
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001384When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1385Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1386
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001387Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1388 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1389 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1390 - getting colors in xterm
1391 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1392
1393Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1394Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1395
1396Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1397
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001398A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1399Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1400
1401Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1402Dara, 2006 June 21)
1403
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001404Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1405number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1406
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001407After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1408the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1409
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001410Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
1411Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
1412about this.
1413
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001414Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1415copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1416error and stop using the connection to the server.
1417
1418Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1419Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1420
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001421Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010014222008 Sep 29)
1423
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001424In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1425check the result of has("patch13").
1426
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001427Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1428restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1429
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001430Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1431and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1432
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001433Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1434put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1435
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001436Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1437resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1438
1439In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1440can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1441
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001442Completion menu disappears when using 'cursorcolumn'. (Sven-Hendrik Haase,
14432011 May 23)
1444
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001445GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1446maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1447doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001448Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1449visible.
1450
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001451When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1452differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001453
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001454The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1455be only one.
1456
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001457"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1458script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1459
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001460It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1461the function name before resolving it to a number?
1462 let d = {}
1463 fun! d.foo()
1464 echo "here"
1465 endfun
1466 call d.foo(9)
1467
1468Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1469only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001470Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1471used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1472
1473Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1474output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1475Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1476
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001477Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001478"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1479name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1480Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001481
1482Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1483(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1484
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001485Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1486as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1487
1488Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1489Jan 1)
1490
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001491Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
149223)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001493
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001494":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1495tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1496Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001497
1498xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1499buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1500Xterm 224 supports it!
1501
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001502When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1503text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1504latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1505
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001506Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1507
1508Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1509no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1510
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001511In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1512VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
15132007 Oct 16)
1514
1515TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1516Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1517
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001518Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001519
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001520When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1521typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1522Sep 3, 11)
1523
1524When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1525respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1526the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1527what happens for the GUI.
1528
1529X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1530pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1531clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1532Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1533Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1534clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1535
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001536":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1537this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1538
1539When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1540Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1541restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1542
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001543Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
15442010 Jun 30)
1545
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001546
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001547At next release:
1548- Rename src/Makefile and create a new one like toplevel Makefile that
1549 creates auto/config.mk when it's not there? (Ben Schmidt, 2011 Feb 11)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001550- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
1551 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001552
1553
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001554More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001555- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1556 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001557- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1558- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1559 21)
1560- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1561 patch May 10)
1562- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1563 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1564- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1565 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1566- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1567- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1568- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1569 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1570 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001571- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001572- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1573 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1574- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1575 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1576- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1577 21)
1578- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1579 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1580- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1581 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001582- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1583 Sep 13)
1584- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1585 Docs patch Oct 30)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001586- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1587 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1588 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1589 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1590 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar4d32c2d2010-07-18 22:10:01 +02001591- Patch to access screen under Python. (Marko Mahni, 2010 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001592- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001593
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001594Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000015959 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1596 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1597 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1598 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1599 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1600 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1601 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1602 (Alan Schmitt)
1603 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001604 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1605 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000016069 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001607 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000016088 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016098 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001610 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016117 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1612 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1613 How does this work? Missing comments.
1614- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001615 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001616 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001617 More recent version: https://retracile.net/wiki/VimBreakIndent
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001618 Posted to vim-dev by Taylor Hedberg, 2011 Nov 25
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016198 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001620 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016217 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1622 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1623- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1624 for multi-byte characters.
1625- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1626- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1627 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1628 been given values.
1629 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
16308 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001631 with an ESC sequence.
1632 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1633 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1634 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016357 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1636 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1637- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1638 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1639 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
16408 Add functions:
1641 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1642 Update 2004 Sep 10
1643 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1644 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001645 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001646 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001647 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1648 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001649 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1650 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1651 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1652 (2003 May 13)
1653 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1654 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001655 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1656 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001657 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1658 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1659 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016607 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1661 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1662- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1663 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
16647 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1665 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000016668 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1667 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016687 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
16698 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1670 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
16717 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1672 Kotchan has a patch for it)
16738 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1674 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1675 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
16767 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1677- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1678 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1679 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001680- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1681 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1682- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1683
1684
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001685Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001686- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1687 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016888 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1689 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1690 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1691 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1692 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1693 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016948 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1695 make Vim exit.
16967 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1697 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1698 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
16998 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1700 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1701 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
17026 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1703 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1704 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
17058 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1706 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1707 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1708 names in one buffer???
1709 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1710 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1711 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
17127 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1713 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1714 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001715 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1716 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017177 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1718 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
17197 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
17207 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
17217 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1722 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
17237 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1724 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1725 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1726 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
17277 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
17287 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
17297 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1730 to the match with the tag? Option?
17317 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
17327 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1733 (Sayre).
17347 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1735 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017367 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1737 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1738 match. Nvi can do it too.
17397 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1740 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1741 line 1\ line 2\\
1742 line 2\ line 3\\
1743 . line4/
17446 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1745 the way the shell is started?
17466 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1747 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1748
1749
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001750GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000017519 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017528 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1753 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1754 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000017558 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1756 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1757 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017589 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1759 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1760 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1761 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001762- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1763 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1764 blocked for now.
1765
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001766
1767Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001768- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1769 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000017708 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1771 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017728 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1773 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
17748 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1775 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1776 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
17778 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1778 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
17797 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1780 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1781 "lucida_console:h8").
17826 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1783 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000017848 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1785 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1786 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017877 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1788 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1789 to use an opaque background in most places?
17908 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1791 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1792 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
17938 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1794 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1795 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
17967 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1797 2004 May 9)
17988 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1799 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1800 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1801 MS-Windows 98?
1802 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1803 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1804 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1805 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018068 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1807 appear. (Sami Salonen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018088 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1809 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1810 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1811 doesn't work properly.
18128 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1813 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1814 appears in the right position. (Webb)
18159 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1816 button doesn't give popup menu.
1817 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1818 selection.
1819 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1820 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1821 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
18228 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1823 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1824 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1825 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
18268 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1827 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1828 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018297 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1830 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1831 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
18327 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1833 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001834 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018357 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1836 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018376 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
18388 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1839 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1840 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
18418 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1842 know which keyboard is being used?
18437 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1844 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1845 area (Koloseike).
18468 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1847 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1848 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1849 the font name).
1850
1851
1852Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000018536 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1854 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1855 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1856 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1857 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018589 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1859 required and it's missing?
18608 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1861 wrong.
18629 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1863 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000018649 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001865 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1866 flag.
18678 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1868 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1869 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
18708 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
18716 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1872 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1873 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1874 the tooltips work though...
18757 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1876 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
18778 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1878 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1879 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1880
1881
1882Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010018839 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
1884 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018859 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1886 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1887 through files.
18887 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1889 read long file names. (Schroeder)
18904 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1891 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1892 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1893 problem during a refresh.
18945 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1895 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1896 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1897 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1898 colors as it should.
1899 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1900 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1901
1902
1903Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02001904- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019057 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1906 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019078 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1908 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1909 (Phillipps)
1910
1911
1912GUI:
19139 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1914 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
19159 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00001916 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001917 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
19189 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1919 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
19208 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1921 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
19228 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1923 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1924 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
19258 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1926 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1927 of where it is processing the output.
1928 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
19298 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1930 doesn't work.
19318 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000019328 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1933 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1934 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020019358 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019368 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1937 browse().
19388 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1939 use that code? Or use console dialog.
19408 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1941 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000019427 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1943 - regexp on/off
1944 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1945 when all buffers/directory is used:
1946 - filter for file name
1947 when directory is used:
1948 - subdirectory on/off
1949 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019508 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1951 to avoid problems.
19528 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1953 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1954 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
19558 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1956 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1957 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
19588 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1959 up. Set erase character somehow?
19608 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1961 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1962 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1963 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
19648 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
19657 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1966 visible.
19677 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1968 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
19697 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1970 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
19718 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1972 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
19738 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1974 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1975 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1976 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1977- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
19784 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1979 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1980 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1981
1982
1983MSDOS/DJGPP:
19849 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1985 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1986 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
19878 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1988 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
19899 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00001990 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1991 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019929 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1993 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1994 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1995 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
19969 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1997 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1998 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1999 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
2000 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
2001 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
2002 Make this work like in Win32 console.
2003 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
2004 key code. Use a translation table?
20059 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
2006 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
20078 Use DJGPP 2.03.
20088 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2009 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
20108 setlocale() is bogus.
20118 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2012 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2013 Windows 95 system!
20148 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000020157 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002016 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
20177 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2018 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2019 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
20208 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2021 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
20227 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2023 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2024 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2025 "[New file]".
20267 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2027 that is supported?
20288 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
20298 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2030 Briscoe)
2031
2032
2033MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
20348 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2035 gen_expand_wildcards().
20368 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2037 Wagner.
20388 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
20398 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2040 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000020418 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2042 a good fallback, thus use:
2043 $HOME
2044 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2045 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2046 $USERPROFILE
2047 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2048 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2049 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2050 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020518 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2052 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
20538 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2054 Should work like in the GUI version.
20558 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2056 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
20578 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2058 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
20598 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2060 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2061 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020628 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2063 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2064 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2065
2066
2067Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020020688 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002069 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2070 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
20718 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2072 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2073
2074
2075Win32 console:
20769 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2077 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2078 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2079 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2080 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2081 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2082 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2083 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2084 and the file is not saved.
2085 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2086 long name.
20878 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2088 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
20897 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2090 besides the console.
20918 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
20929 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2093 <C-S-i>?
20949 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2095 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
20968 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2097 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020987 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2099 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2100 exiting.
2101
2102
2103Amiga:
21048 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2105 sequences.
21069 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2107 backslashes in result.
21088 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2109 all options, using white space separation.
2110
2111
2112Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002113- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021147 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2115 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2116 (Jack)
2117 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021188 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2119 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021208 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
21218 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
21229 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2123 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021249 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002125
2126
2127"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002128- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2129 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002130- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2131 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002132- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2133 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2134 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2135 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2136 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2137 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2138 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000021399 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2140 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000021419 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002142 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2143 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021448 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2145 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2146 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002147 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021488 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
2149 error number, it's not a regular error message.
21507 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2151 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
21528 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2153 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2154 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021557 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2156 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002157- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2158 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021598 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2160 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2161 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2162 using the horizontal scrollbar.
21637 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2164 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2165 invocations belong together.
21668 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2167 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
21688 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2169 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2170 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2171 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2172 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000021738 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000021748 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2175 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2176 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021776 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021788 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2179 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021807 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2181 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2182 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2183 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
21848 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
2185 defined.
21867 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2187 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2188 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
21897 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2190 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2191 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
21927 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2193 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021947 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2195 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021969 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2197 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2198 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2199 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2200 script can be called.
22018 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2202 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2203 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022048 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2205 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000022068 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002207 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2208 configurable?
22098 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
22109 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2211 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2212 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022138 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2214 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000022158 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2216 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022178 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2218 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022199 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2220 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2221 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022227 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022238 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2224 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2225 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000022268 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2227 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002228 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2229 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022308 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2231 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
22329 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2233 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2234 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002235 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022367 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2237 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022387 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2239 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2240 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2241 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022428 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002243 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2244 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2245 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2246 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002247 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2248 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002249 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002250 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002251 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2252 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2253 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2254 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2255 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
22568 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2257 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
22589 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2259 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2260 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022618 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2262 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
22638 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2264 in lines that don't extend into the block?
22658 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2266 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2267 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
22688 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2269 'linebreak'.
22708 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2271 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2272 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022739 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2274 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2275 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2276 'magic' in history. (Margo)
22779 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2278 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
22799 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2280 isn't updated).
22819 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
22829 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2283 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2284 cause another redraw, etc.
22858 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2286 must escape special characters in the pattern.
22878 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2288 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2289 ":w!!" for that.
2290 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2291 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002292 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022937 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2294 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2295 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2296 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2297 clipboard)
22987 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2299 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2300 Waggoner)
23018 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2302 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2303 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000023046 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2305 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2306 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023078 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2308 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
23098 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2310 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2311 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000023128 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023138 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2314 (e.g., ":w").
23158 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2316 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
23178 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2318 for ">>".
23198 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2320 script in do_cmdline().
23218 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2322 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2323 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2324 changes.
23258 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2326 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
23278 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2328 check for file marks. This can be slow.
23297 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2330 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2331 needed.
2332 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
23338 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2334 to skip catch_signals()?
23359 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2336 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2337 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2338 text?
23398 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2340 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
23418 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2342 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
23439 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2344 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2345 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2346 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2347 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
23487 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2349 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2350 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2351 in the list?
23528 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2353 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2354 instead of on button down.
23558 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
23569 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2357 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002358 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2359 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023608 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2361 character is typed.
23628 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2363 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
23648 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2365 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
23668 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2367 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2368 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2369 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2370 cygwin bash.
23717 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2372 Remember flags for backreferences.
23737 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2374 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
23757 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2376 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
23778 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2378 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
23797 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2380 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023817 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2382 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2383 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
23847 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2385 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
23868 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2387 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2388 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
23897 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2390 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002391
2392
2393I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
23949 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2395 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2396 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002397
2398
2399Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002400- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2401 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2402 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002403- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2404 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2405 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2406 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2407 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2408 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002409 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002410- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2411 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002412 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002413 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2414 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2415 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002416- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2417 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2418 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2419 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2420 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2421- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2422 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2423 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2424- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2425 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002426- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002427- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2428 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2429 character gets the highlighting.
2430- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2431 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2432- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2433 (Jennings)
2434- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2435- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2436 errors. How do we get the rest?
2437- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002438- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002439 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2440- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2441 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2442 first?
2443- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2444 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2445- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2446 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2447 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2448- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2449 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2450 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2451 (Benzinger).
2452- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2453 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2454 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2455- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2456 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2457- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2458 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2459- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2460 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2461 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2462 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2463 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2464 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2465- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2466 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2467 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002468- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2469 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2470 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002471- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2472 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2473 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2474- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2475 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2476- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2477 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2478- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2479 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2480- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2481 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2482- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2483 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2484 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2485 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2486 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2487- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2488 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2489 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2490- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2491 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2492 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002493- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2494 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 +00002495- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2496 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2497 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2498 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2499 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2500- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2501 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2502
2503--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2504 *extensions-improvements*
2505
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002506Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2507- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2508 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2509 calling a function.
2510 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2511 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002512- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2513 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2514- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2515 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2516 http://clewn.sf.net.
2517 And the idevim plugin/script.
2518 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2519 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2520 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2521 other window.
2522 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2523 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2524 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2525 in terminal mode.
2526- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2527 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2528 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2529 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2530 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2531 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002532 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002533- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2534 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2535 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002536- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2537 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002538- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2539 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2540 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000025418 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2542 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2543 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2544 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002545- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2546 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002547
2548
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002549Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025508 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2551 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000025528 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2553 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000025548 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2555 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025568 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025577 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
25589 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2559 - change to cursor position and curswant
2560 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2561 - how it works for folded lines
2562 - how it works with multi-byte characters
25639 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2564 work too.
25658 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2566 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2567 text.
25688 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
25697 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2570 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
25717 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2572 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002573 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002574- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2575
2576
2577Help:
2578- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2579 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2580- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2581 to the other matches.
2582- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2583- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2584- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2585 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2586 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2587 default contents.
2588- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2589 height for the help window (and other windows).
2590- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2591- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2592- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2593
2594
2595User Friendlier:
25968 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2597 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2598 Briscoe)
25998 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
26008 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2601 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2602 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
26038 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2604 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2605- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2606 ":mkplugin <file>"?
26078 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2608 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2609 'runtimepath'.
2610 " Vim plugin
2611 <main plugin code>
2612 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2613 <plugin docs>
2614- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
26159 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2616 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2617 item?).
2618 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026198 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
26207 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000026217 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2622 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2623 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000026248 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2625 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2626 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2627 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002628
2629
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002630Tab pages:
26319 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026327 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2633 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026348 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000026358 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026368 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
26378 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
26387 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026397 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002640 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026417 Add local variables for each tab page?
26428 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2643 tab pages.
26447 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026457 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2646 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002647
2648
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002649Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002650- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2651 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2652 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2653 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002654- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2655 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2656- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2657 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2658 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2659- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2660 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002661- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2662 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2663 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002664- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2665 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2666 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002667- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2668 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002669- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002670 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2671 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000026728 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2673 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
26748 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2675 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
26768 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2677 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002678 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002679 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2680 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2681 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2682 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002683- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2684 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002685- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002686- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2687 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002688- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002689 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002690- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002691 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002692- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2693 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002694- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2695 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2696- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002697 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002698 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2699 in the affix file separately.
2700 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002701 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002702 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2703 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2704 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2705- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2706 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2707 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2708 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2709 Alternative:
2710 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2711 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2712 affix which is required.
2713- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002714 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002715- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2716 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2717 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002718- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2719 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002720- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2721 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2722- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027238 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2724 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2725 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2726 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002727- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2728 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2729 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2730 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027318 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2732 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027338 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
27348 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2735 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027367 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
27378 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2738 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2739 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2740 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002741
2742
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002743Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027449 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2745 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02002746 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027478 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2748 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2749 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002750 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2751 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027527 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2753 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2754 location.
2755
2756
2757Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002758 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2759 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027608 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2761 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000027628 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027639 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2764 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027658 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2766 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2767 user aware of this?
27688 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2769 commands skip over a closed fold.
27708 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
27718 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027727 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002773- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2774 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2775 missing line goes unnoticed.
2776 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002777- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2778 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2779 smoother?
2780- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2781 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002782- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2783 file can contain:
2784 args version.c main.c
2785 edit version.c
2786 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002787- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002788- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2789 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002790- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2791 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002792- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2793 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002794- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000027958 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002796 searches.
2797
2798
2799Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002800- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2801 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2802 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2803 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028049 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2805 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2806 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2807 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020028089 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
2809 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
2810 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028118 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2812 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2813 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2814 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2815 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2816 item.
28178 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002818 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2819 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028208 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2821 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002822 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00002823 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028248 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2825 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000028268 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2827 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2828 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028297 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2830 so that the user can fix the problem.
28318 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2832 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028339 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
28348 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028358 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
28368 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000028377 Searching and composing characters:
2838 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2839 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2840 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2841 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2842 characters can be manipulated.
2843 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2844 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028458 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
28468 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
28478 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2848 characters.
28498 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
28508 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2851 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
28527 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2853 'display' option to specify this.
28547 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2855 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2856- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2857 fontselector somehow.
2858- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2859 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2860- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2861 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2862- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2863 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2864 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2865 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2866 if a font exists?
2867- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02002868 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002869- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2870 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
28717 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2872 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00002873- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2874 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2875 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2876 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002877- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2878 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2879 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2880- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2881 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2882 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2883 But it's very complicated...
2884
2885
2886Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000028877 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002888- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2889- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2890 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00002891- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2892 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002893- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2894- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2895 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002896- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2897 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002898- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2899 units as for the margins.
2900- Support right-to-left text?
29018 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2902 color.
2903
2904
2905Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029068 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2907 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
29088 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2909 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
29108 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2911 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000029127 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2913 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029148 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2915 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2916 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029177 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2918 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2919 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029208 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
29219 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2922 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029237 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2924 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000029257 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2926 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029278 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2928 change this for each release.
29298 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2930 pattern, but not in the body.
29318 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2932 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2933 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029348 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
29358 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2936 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2937 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2938 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
29398 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2940 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
29418 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2942 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002943 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029448 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2945 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2946 used.
29478 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2948 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
29498 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2950 re-insert the [] if possible.
29518 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2952 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000029538 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2954 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2955 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2956 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2957 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029588 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2959 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
29608 Support for deleting syntax items:
2961 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2962 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2963 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
29648 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2965 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2966 a '<'. (Fleiner)
29677 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2968 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2969 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
29707 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2971 detected.
29728 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002973 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029748 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2975 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029768 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
29778 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
29787 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2979 ":mkvimrc".
29808 Improve c.vim:
2981 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2982 "c_strict_ansi".
2983 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
29848 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2985 current line while in Insert mode.
29868 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2987 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
29888 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2989 display position.
29908 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2991 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2992 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
29938 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2994 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2995 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029968 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2997 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2998 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000029997 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3000 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3001 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3002 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3003 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030047 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3005 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3006 E.g. for this html:
3007 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030087 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
30097 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3010 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030118 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
30128 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030137 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3014 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3015 completion?
30168 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3017 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
30187 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3019 select one of the sets.
30208 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3021 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3022 2, etc.
30238 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3024 highlighting (for "." command).
30258 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3026 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
30278 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
30287 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3029 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
30306 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3031 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3032- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3033 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3034- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003035- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3036 (for comment blocks).
3037- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3038 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3039 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3040 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3041 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3042 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3043 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3044 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3045 (Campbell)
3046 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3047 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
30487 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3049 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
30507 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3051 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3052 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
30537 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3054 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3055 messages. And external commands?
30568 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3057 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
30587 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3059 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3060
3061
3062Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030638 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3064 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030657 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3066 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3067 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030688 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3069 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003070- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3071 2006 Dec 11.
3072- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020030738 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3074 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3075 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3076 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3077 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3078 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000030797 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3080 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030818 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
30828 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3083 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3084 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3085 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3086 nested packages?
3087 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3088 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3089 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030907 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3091 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3092 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3093 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3094 autocommand.
3095 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3096 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3097 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3098 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030997 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3100 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031016 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3102 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031038 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003104 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3105 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3106 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3107 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3108 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3109 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3110 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003111 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3112 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3113 3 2002
3114 Only add this when also implemented for
3115 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3116 be used.
3117 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003118 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3119 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3120 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3121 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3122 File.Open..." argument.
3123 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3124 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3125 with properties instead.
3126 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3127 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3128 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003129 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003130 crypt() encrypt string
3131 decrypt() decrypt string
3132 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3133 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003134 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003135 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003136 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003137 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003138 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003139 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3140 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003141 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3142 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003143 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003144 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3145 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003146 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3147 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3148 to allow the library to execute a command or
3149 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031507 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3151 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
31528 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3153 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031548 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3155 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031568 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031577 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3158 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
31596 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031608 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3161 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031628 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3163 option or environment variable.
31648 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031658 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003166 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031677 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3168 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031698 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3170 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
31718 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
31728 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3173 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3174 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3175 charwise({expr}).
31767 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3177 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3178 buffer for this?
3179 result = scratch(string, command)
3180 result = apply(string, command)
3181 result = execute(string, command)
3182 "command" would use <> notation.
3183 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
31847 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003185
3186
3187Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000031886 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3189 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3190 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3191 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3192 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3193 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3194 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003195
3196
3197Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031987 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3199 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020032007 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3201 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3202 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3203 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000032048 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3205 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3206 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3207 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003208 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032098 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3210 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3211 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032128 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
32139 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
32148 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
32157 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3216 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
32178 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3218 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3219 when starting up in a color terminal.
32208 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3221 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032228 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3223 function be improved?
32248 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3225 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3226 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3227 this be improved?
32288 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3229 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000032307 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3231 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032327 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3233 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
32347 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3235 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020032367 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032377 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3238 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3239 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3240 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3241 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3242 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3243 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032448 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3245 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3246 using strcmp() too often?
32477 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3248 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3249 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3250 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3251 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3252 the two blocks to the memfile block.
32537 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3254 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3255 with an argument that can be messed with.
3256 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3257 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
32587 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3259- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
32608 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3261 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3262- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3263 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3264- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3265- Do profiling on:
3266 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3267 - 1000ii<Esc>
3268 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3269 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3270 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3271 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3272 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3273 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003274 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032757 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3276 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3277 changed).
3278 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3279 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3280- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3281- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3282 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3283- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3284 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3285 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3286- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3287 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3288- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3289- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3290 cursor is right of the screen.
32918 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3292 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3293
3294
3295Code size:
32968 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3297- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3298 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
32998 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
33008 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3301 it.
33027 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3303 left out.
33048 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3305 can be removed.
33068 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3307
3308
3309Messages:
33108 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3311 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
33128 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3313 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
33148 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3315 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003316- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3317 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3318- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033198 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3320 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033219 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3322 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3323 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3324 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3325 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033268 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3327 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
33288 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3329 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3330 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3331 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3332 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3333 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003334- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003335 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033368 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3337 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3338 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3339 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3340 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3341 error messages, printing text, etc.
33428 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3343 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3344 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3345
3346
3347Screen updating:
33487 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3349 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3350 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3351- screen_line():
3352 - insert/delete character stuff.
3353 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3354- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3355 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3356- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3357 waiting for a character.
33588 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3359 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3360 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
33617 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003362
3363
3364Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020033658 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033666 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3367- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3368 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3369 windows.
33707 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3371 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3372 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3373- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3374 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3375 (Goldfarb)
3376- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3377 bound windows.
3378- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3379 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003380- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003381- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3382 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3383 of lines but not with a single line).
3384
3385
3386Autoconf:
33878 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
33888 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3389 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3390- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3391 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3392- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3393- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3394- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3395
3396
3397Perl interface:
33988 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033997 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
34007 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
34016 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3402
3403
3404Shared libraries:
34056 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3406 :libload internal-name libname
3407 :libunload internal-name
3408 :liblist
3409 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3410 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3411 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
34126 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3413
3414
3415Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000034169 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3417 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3418 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3419 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3420 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000034218 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3422 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3423 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003424 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003425 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000034268 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3427 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3428 several).
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003429 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3430 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3431 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000034327 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3433 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3434 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034358 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
34368 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3437 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034387 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3439 window for each tag.
34407 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
34417 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3442 bottom" search message.
34437 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3444 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3445 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003446- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3447- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003448- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3449 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3450 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034517 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3452 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3453 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3454 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
34557 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3456 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3457 :tagargs clear
3458 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3459 matching).
34607 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3461 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3462 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3463 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
34647 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3465 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
34667 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3467 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3468 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003469
3470
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003471Win32 GUI:
34728 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3473 the message and input?
34747 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3475 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3476 dynamically?
34777 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3478 (Mike McCollister)
34798 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3480 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3481 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3482 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3483 common part of the path.
34848 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
34858 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3486 gettext and menus work.
34878 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3488 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003489 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003490 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
34918 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3492 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
34938 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3494 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
34957 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3496 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
34977 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
34987 <Esc> should close a dialog.
34997 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3500 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3501 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3502 prompts.
35037 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3504 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3505 the file added into an already running Vim.
35067 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3507 functions to find the window title.
3508
3509
3510GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020035118 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003512- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3513 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
35147 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
35158 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
35166 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
35178 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3518 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
35199 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
35207 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
35218 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3522 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
35238 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3524 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3525 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
35268 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3527 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
35288 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3529 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3530 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3531 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035327 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
35338 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3534 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000035357 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3536 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3537 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035388 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
35398 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003540 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035418 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
35428 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
35438 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3544 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3545 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
35467 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3547 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3548 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
35497 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3550 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
35517 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3552 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3553 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3554 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
35557 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3556 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
35577 Should support multi-column menus.
3558- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3559 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3560- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
35618 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
35626 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3563 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
35647 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
35657 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3566 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3567 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
35687 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
35698 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3570 name can be chosen free.
35717 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3572 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
35736 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3574 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3575 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3576 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3577 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3578 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3579 things.
35807 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3581 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035827 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003583 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003584- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3585 where it was started from?
35867 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3587
3588
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003589Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020035909 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3591 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003592- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010035938 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3594 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3595 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3596 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
35978 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3598 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000035997 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3600 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3601 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3602 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000036037 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036048 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3605 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036068 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3607 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3608 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036097 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3610 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3611 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036128 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3613 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3614 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036157 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3616 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036178 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3618 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036198 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036206 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3621 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036227 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036237 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003624 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3625 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3626 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036275 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3628 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3629 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
36307 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3631 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3632 file.
36338 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3634 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3635 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003636- Add events to autocommands:
3637 Error - When an error happens
3638 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003639 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003640 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3641 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003642 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003643 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003644 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3645 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003646 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003647 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003648 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003649 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3650 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3651 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3652 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003653 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003654 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3655 the char.
3656 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3657 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3658 file from CVS).
3659 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3660 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3661 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3662 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3663 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3664 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003665 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3666 changes.
3667 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3668 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003669- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003670 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003671 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003672 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3673 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3674 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3675 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3676 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3677
3678
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003679Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003680- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3681 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003682- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3683 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3684 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3685 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3686 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003687- Ideas from others:
3688 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3689 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3690 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3691 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3692 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3693 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3694 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3695 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3696 Uses Perl for C++.
3697 Uses ctags to find the info:
3698 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3699 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3700 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3701 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3702 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3703 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003704 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003705 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3706- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3707
3708
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003709Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003710- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000037117 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3712 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037137 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3714 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3715 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037168 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3717 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
37189 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3719 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3720 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037218 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3722 - ignore/match case
3723 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037248 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3725 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3726 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3727 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3728 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3729 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037308 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000037317 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3732 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037338 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3734 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3735 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3736 Should work for C++ and Java.
3737 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
37387 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
37397 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3740 instead of words.
37418 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
37428 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3743 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
37448 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3745 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003746- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3747 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003748- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3749 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3750 wildcards in the file name)?
3751- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3752- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3753- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3754 be in another file).
3755- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3756- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3757- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3758 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3759- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3760- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3761- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003762- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3763
3764
3765Command line editing:
37667 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3767 line.
37688 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3769 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3770 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3771- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3772 lines wraps to start of line).
3773- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3774 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3775 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3776 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3777 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3778 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3779 cmdwin does now already.
3780 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3781 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3782 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3783 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3784 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3785 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3786 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3787 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3788 Problems:
3789 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3790 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3791 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3792 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3793 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3794 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3795 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3796 character in first column?
3797 - Implementation ideas:
3798 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3799 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3800 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3801 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3802 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3803 Mode.
3804
3805
3806Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038078 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038088 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
38098 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3810 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
38118 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3812 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038138 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3814 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038157 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3816 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003817- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3818- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3819 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038208 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3821 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
38227 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3823 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3824- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3825 identifiers (Webb).
38268 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3827 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
38287 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3829 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3830- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3831 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3832- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3833 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3834 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003835
3836
3837Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000038389 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3839 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3840 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003841- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3842 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3843 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3844 completely resulted from one mapping.
3845- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3846 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3847
3848
3849Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000038509 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3851 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3852 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038538 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3854 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3855 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3856 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3857 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038588 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3859 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3860 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038617 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3862 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003863- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020038649 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038657 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3866 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3867- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3868 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3869 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3870 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3871 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3872 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3873- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3874 Normal mode.
3875- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3876 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3877 are used.
3878- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3879- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3880- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3881
3882
3883'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010038849 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
3885 char * veryLongName =
3886 "very long string"
3887 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038888 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038898 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3890 long_type foo =
3891 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038928 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3893 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003894 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038958 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3896 func(
3897 new String[] {
3898 "asdf",
3899 "asdf"
3900 }
3901 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010039028 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3903 (Chow Loong Jin)
3904 namespace {
3905 int
3906 func(int arg) {
3907 }
3908 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039096 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3910 func( arg1
3911 , arg2
3912 , arg3
3913 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000039147 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003915 func(
3916 int x) // indent like "(4"
3917 {
3918 if (a
3919 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039209 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3921 if (a)
3922 {
3923 if (b)
3924 {
3925 // {
3926 }
3927 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003928 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3929 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3930 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003931- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003932 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
39337 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3934- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3935 line).
3936- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3937- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3938 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
39397 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3940- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3941 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3942- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3943 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3944- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3945- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3946 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
39478 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3948 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3949 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3950- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3951- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3952 lines start with "\item".
3953- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3954 /* here is a comment that
3955 is just autoindented, and
3956 nothing else */
3957- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
39587 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3959 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3960 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003961 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3962 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003963
3964
3965Java:
39668 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3967 Odendahl?
39688 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3969 "[i" commands and friends.
3970- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3971 (Jason)
3972- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3973 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3974
3975
3976'comments':
39778 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3978 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3979 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3980 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003981 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3982 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039837 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3984 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
39857 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
39866 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3987 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3988 regexp is used.
39898 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3990 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3991
3992
3993Virtual edit:
39948 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039957 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3996
3997
3998Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039998 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040008 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000040018 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004002 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000040038 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4004 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004005 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4006 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000040078 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040087 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4009 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040108 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4011 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040128 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4013 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4014 the end of the line or before a ".".
40157 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4016 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
40177 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4018 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040196 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
40205 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4021 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4022 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4023 cursor is on.
4024
4025
4026Select mode:
40278 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4028 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
40297 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
4030 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
40317 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4032 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4033 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4034 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4035 normal_cmd().
4036 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4037 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4038
4039
4040Visual mode:
4041- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4042 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4043 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004044- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4045 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4046 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040478 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004048 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004049 where needed.
40507 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4051 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
40527 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4053 of each selected line.
40548 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
40558 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4056 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4057 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
40588 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4059 Ben Godfrey)
40607 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4061 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
40627 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4063 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
40647 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4065 Young is working on this)
40667 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004067 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004068 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
40698 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4070 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
40717 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4072 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4073 option!
40747 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4075 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4076 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4077 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4078 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4079 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4080 without changing the column.
40816 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040827 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4083 current buffer.
40847 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
40856 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4086 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
40876 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040886 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004089 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004090 or other special character.
40916 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4092
4093
4094More advanced repeating commands:
4095- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000040967 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004097 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004098- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004099- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004100 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4101 "y." will repeat last yank.
4102 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4103 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4104 and/or pick an older command.
4105- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4106
4107
4108Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041098 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4110 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4111 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
41128 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
41137 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4114 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041158 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4116 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
41178 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000041187 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041198 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4120 entering search strings.
41218 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4122 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4123 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041248 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4125 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041268 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4127 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4128 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
41297 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041307 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4131 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041326 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4133 abbreviations are to be used.
4134- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4135 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4136 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004137- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4138 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4139 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4140 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4141 Or implicit:
4142 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004143- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4144 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4145 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004146- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4147 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4148- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4149 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
41506 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4151 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4152 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4153 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004154- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4155 non-replace Insert mode?
4156- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004157- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4158- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4159 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4160- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004161 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004162- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4163 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4164- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4165- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4166 ":freekeys".
4167- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4168
4169
4170Incsearch:
4171- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4172- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4173 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4174 up every time.
4175- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4176 folds when going to another line.
4177- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4178 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4179 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4180 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4181- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4182 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4183
4184
4185Searching:
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000041868 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004187 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004188 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004189 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004190 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041919 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4192 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010041938 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4194 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000041958 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4196 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4197 Perl does it this way:
4198 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4199 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4200 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4201 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042028 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4203 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4204 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010042058 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4206 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4207 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000042087 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4209 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042108 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4211 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000042127 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004213 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4214 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4215 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
42167 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4217 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000042187 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004219 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042207 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4221 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042228 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4223 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
42248 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4225 line.
42267 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4227 example.
42288 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4229 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4230- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4231 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4232 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4233 Alternative: use matchit.vim
42348 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
42358 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4236 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4237 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
42387 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4239 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000042407 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4241 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042428 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4243 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042448 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4245 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042468 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4247 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4248 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4249 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004250- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4251 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004252- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4253 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4254- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4255 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4256 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4257 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042588 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4259 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004260- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4261 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042628 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4263 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4264 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004265- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4266 i ignore case
4267 I use case
4268 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4269 v use Vi regexp syntax
4270 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4271 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4272 Perl uses these too:
4273 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4274 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4275 o compile only once (Perl only)
4276 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4277 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4278 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4279 following command.
4280 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4281- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4282 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4283 for search string)?
42847 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4285 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4286- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4287 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4288- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4289 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4290- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4291- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004292 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004293 a for the next file in the argument list
4294 f for file in the buffer list
4295 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004296 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4297 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004298 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4299 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4300- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043017 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004302 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043037 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4304 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4305 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4306 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
43076 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4308 effects.
43097 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4310 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4311 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000043127 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004313 Also ":dselect".
4314
4315
4316Undo:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043179 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4318 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020043198 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4320 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4321 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
43228 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4323 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043248 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4325 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4326 timestamp?
4327 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4328 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043298 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4330 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4331 was changed outside of Vim.
4332 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4333 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004334 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4335 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004336- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4337 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004338- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4339 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4340 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
43418 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4342 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4343 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4344 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
43458 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4346 only remember the lines that really changed.
43477 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4348 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4349 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4350 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004351- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4352 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4353- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4354 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4355- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4356 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4357 [-99].
4358- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4359- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004360- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4361 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4362
4363
4364Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043657 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4366 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4367 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4368 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
43698 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4370 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
43718 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4372 inode too.
43737 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004374 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4375 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043767 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4377 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4378- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4379 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4380- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4381 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
43827 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4383 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
43847 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4385 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
43868 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000043878 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004388 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
43897 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4390 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010043918 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4392 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4393 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004394
4395
4396Swap (.swp) files:
43978 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4398 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4399 there are short file name problems.
44008 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4401 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
44028 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
44038 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004404 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004405 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4406 file the same as the actual file?
4407 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044087 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4409 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
44107 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004411 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004412 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4413 enough room.
44147 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4415 or /var/preserve.
4416- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4417 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4418- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4419 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4420- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4421 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4422 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4423 cached list of which line is where.
4424
4425
4426Viminfo:
44277 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4428 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4429 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000044308 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4431 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4432 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044338 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4434 name. (Schild)
44358 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
44368 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044378 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044388 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4439 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4440 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4441 this?
44427 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
44437 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4444 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
44456 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4446 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4447 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4448- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4449 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4450
4451
4452Modelines:
44538 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4454 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4455 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004456- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4457 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4458 'shiftwidth'.
4459- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4460 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004461- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4462 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4463 modeline setting.
4464- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4465 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4466- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4467 .cpp files.
4468- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4469 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4470- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4471 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4472
4473
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004474Sessions:
44758 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4476 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
44777 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4478 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044798 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4480 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044818 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4482 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4483 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000044847 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4485 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000044867 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004487
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004488
4489Options:
44907 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4491 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044928 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4493 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4494 also be supported.
44958 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4496 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4497 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
44987 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
44997 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4500 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004501
4502
4503External commands:
45048 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4505 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
45064 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4507 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4508 -f).
45094 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
45104 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4511 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
45124 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4513
4514
4515Multiple Windows:
45167 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
45178 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4518 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
45197 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4520 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4521 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045227 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4523 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000045247 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4525 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045266 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4527 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004528 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004529 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
45307 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4531 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4532 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4533 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4534- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4535 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4536 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4537 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4538
4539
4540Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045418 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045428 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4543 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045448 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 +000045458 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4546 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
45478 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4548 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4549 the mark was set.
45507 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4551 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4552 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4553 ":browse marks"?
45546 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045557 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4556 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
45577 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4558 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
45597 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4560 command).
45617 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4562 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4563 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4564 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
45655 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4566 mappings.
45676 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4568 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4569 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4570
4571
4572Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020045737 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01004574 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'filenecoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004575- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4576 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000045778 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045787 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4579 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4580
4581
4582Writing files:
4583- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4584 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4585 shortname conversion.
45868 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
45878 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4588 file.
45898 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4590 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4591 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045926 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4593 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
45946 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4595 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
45966 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4597 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045988 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004599 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
46007 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4601 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
46027 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4603 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4604 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4605 waiting for a character to be typed).
46068 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4607 line of the window, like "[time]".
4608 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4609 Automatic and/or with a command.
4610
4611
4612Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000046138 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4614 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000046158 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004616 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4617- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4618- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
46198 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4620 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004621- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004622 :s///N substitutes N times.
4623- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4624 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4625 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
46267 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4627 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4628 last line column 5.
46295 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4630 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4631 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4632 (Stanislav Sitar)
4633
4634
4635Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046368 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
46377 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
46388 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4639 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4640 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004641- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4642- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4643 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4644- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4645- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4646
4647
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004648Argument list:
46496 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4650 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4651 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
46526 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4653
4654
4655Registers:
46568 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
46578 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4658 around in windows.
46598 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4660 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4661 for every line.
46626 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4663 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4664 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4665- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4666 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4667- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4668 leader when line wraps?
4669- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4670 line in the range.
4671- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4672 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
46738 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4674 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004675
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004676
4677Debug mode:
46787 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
46798 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000046808 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046817 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004682 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4683 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4684 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046857 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
46867 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4687
4688
4689Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010046909 Python: be able to define a Python function that can be called directly
4691 from Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value.
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046927 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4693 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4694 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4695 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4696 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4697 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4698 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004699 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000047007 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4701 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000047027 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4703 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047048 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4705 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047067 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4707 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4708 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004709- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004710 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047117 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4712 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047137 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4714 window as a buffer-tab selection.
47158 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047166 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
47177 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4718 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4719 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004720 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4721 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047227 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4723 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
47248 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4725 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047266 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047278 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4728 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4729 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4730 in this Vim.
47318 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004732 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047338 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4734 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4735 have it apply to the following command.
47368 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4737 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4738 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4739 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047407 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4741 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047427 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4743 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4744 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4745 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047466 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
47478 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
47489 Support ACLs on more systems.
47497 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4750 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047517 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4752 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4753 (truncated to fit in the space).
47547 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
47558 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
47568 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4757 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000047587 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004759 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
47607 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4761 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047627 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047637 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
47647 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047658 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
47668 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4767 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4768 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4769 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
47708 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
47716 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4772 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004773 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047748 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047758 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4776 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4777 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4778 does something like this. (Shah)
47797 Use growarray for replace stack.
47807 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4781 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
47823 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047837 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4784 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010047857 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
4786 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004787- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4788- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4789- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4790- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
47917 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4792 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4793- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4794 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02004795- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004796- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4797 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4798- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4799 call "play newbeep.au").
4800- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4801 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4802 (Bhatt).
4803- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4804 blockwise registers).
4805- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4806 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4807- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4808 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4809 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4810 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004811- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048127 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4813 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4814- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4815 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4816 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4817 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4818 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048198 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4820 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048218 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4822 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4823 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4824 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4825 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4826- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004827- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048287 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4829 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4830- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4831 not in column 1.
48326 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4833 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
48347 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4835- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004836- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004837 :redir #> bufname
4838 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00004839- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4840 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004841- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4842 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4843 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
48446 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4845 console? (Klaus Hast)
4846- Add :delcr command:
4847 *:delcr*
4848 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4849 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4850 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4851 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4852 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4853 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4854- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4855- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4856 characters from 'isprint'.
4857- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4858- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4859 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4860- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4861 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4862 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4863- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4864- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4865 Nvi).
4866- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4867 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
48687 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4869- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4870 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
48716 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4872- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4873 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4874 macro).
4875- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004876- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4877 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4878- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
48798 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004880- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4881- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4882- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4883 if it is not the first or last window.
4884- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4885 there is one) instead of the file itself.
48867 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4887 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4888 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4889- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4890- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004891 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004892 many percent down the windows).
4893- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4894 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4895 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4896- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4897 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4898- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4899 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4900- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4901- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4902- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4903 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049048 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4905 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4906 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4907 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4908 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004909- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4910 t_bs is set? (Webb)
4911- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004912 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4913- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004914 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4915 (Webb).
4916- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004917 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004918- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4919 hex codes like 0xff).
4920- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4921 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4922 the last TYPED command.
4923- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4924- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4925- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4926 should also work?
4927- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
49288 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4929 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4930 name.
4931- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4932 trailing '.'.
4933- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4934 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4935 find_file_in_path().
4936- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4937 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4938- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4939- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4940 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4941- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004942 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004943- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4944 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4945 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004946- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004947 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4948- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4949- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4950- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4951 to the minimal size.
4952- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4953- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4954- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4955- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4956- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004957- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4958 entered)?
4959- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4960 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004961- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004962- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4963- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4964- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4965- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4966- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4967 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004968- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049698 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4970 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4971 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4972 or in octal.
49737 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4974 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004975- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004976 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4977- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4978- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4979 insert line command).
4980- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4981- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4982- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4983- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4984- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4985 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004986- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004987 yet.
4988- Implement 'redraw' option.
4989- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4990 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049917 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4992 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00004993 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4994 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049958 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4996 do it.
4997- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4998- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4999 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5000- Add text justification option.
5001- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5002- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5003 off".
5004- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5005- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5006- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005007 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005008- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005009- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005010- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5011- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5012 commands.
5013- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5014- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5015- :table command (Webb)
5016- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005017- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5018- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5019- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5020- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5021- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5022 (Demirel).
5023- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5024- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5025 for use in macro's and the like.
5026- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005027 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005028- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005029 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005030- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005031 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005032 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5033- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5034 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005035- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005036 mkopttab to make option table?
5037- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5038 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5039- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5040 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005041- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005042 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5043- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5044 cursor?
5045- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5046- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
50475 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5048 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000050498 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5050 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5051 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5052 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5053 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050548 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5055 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5056 (Netherton)
50576 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5058 space after "(", for example.
50595 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5060 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5061 (Servatius Brandt)
5062
5063
5064From Elvis:
5065- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5066- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005067- Search patterns:
5068 \@ match word under cursor.
5069 but do:
5070 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5071 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
50728 ":window" command:
5073 :win + next window (up)
5074 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5075 :win - previous window (down)
5076 :win -- idem, wrapping
5077 :win nr to window number "nr"
5078 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
50797 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5080 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5081
5082
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005083From xvi:
5084- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5085- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5086
5087
5088From vile:
5089- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5090- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5091 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5092
5093
5094Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005095- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5096 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5097 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5098 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5099 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005100- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5101 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5102- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5103 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5104 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5105 current layout mirrored.
5106- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5107- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5108 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5109- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5110- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5111 font in each top-level window.
5112- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5113- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5114- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5115- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5116 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5117- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5118 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5119 mentioned in the tags file.
5120 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5121 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5122- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5123 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5124- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5125 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
51264 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5127 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5128 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5129 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005130 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005131 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5132 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5133- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5134 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5135 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5136
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005137When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5138empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005139
5140vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5141vim: set fo+=n :