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Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2015 Jan 10
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
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram 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.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010037Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +020038- The NFA engine does not implement the time limit passed to
39 nfa_regexec_multi()
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +010040- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020041- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
42 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010043- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010044- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
45 2013 Dec 11)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010046- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin Szamotulski
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010047 Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +010048- Difference in NFA and old engine. (Brett Stahlman, 2014 Nov 5)
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +010049- Bug when using \>. (Ramel, 2014 Feb 2) (Aaron Bohannon, 2014 Feb 13)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020050- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
51- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
52 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020053- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020054- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
55 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
56 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +010057- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +020058
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +010059The range for :wincmd is not always a window number, can also be a column
60count. Remove the range check. What to use for ":$wincmd"?
61
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020062Still using freed memory after using setloclist(). (lcd, 2014 Jul 23)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020063More info Jul 24. Not clear why.
64
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020065Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
66(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
67Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
Bram Moolenaardb6ea062014-07-10 22:01:47 +020068
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020069Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
70work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +020071
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +010072Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
73
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +010074Patch on Issue 292, recognizing polkit filetype.
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76Issue 133: patch for config.vim, maintainer not responding.
77
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010078":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
79directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
80
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +020081Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
82
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020083Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020084
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +010085MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
86wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
87
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +020088Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +020089inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +020090
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +010091Ukrainian vimtutor. (Issue 288)
92
93Regenerate the Unicode tables in mbyte.c.
94Diff from ZyX, 2014 Dec 6.
95
96Patch to fix relative numbers. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 17)
97Update Nov 26.
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +010098
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +010099Patch to improve config.vim syntax. Issue 305. Maintainer last update was in
1002008.
101
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100102Patch on issue 310, matchadd() seems to hang.
103
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100104Patch to fix that getcurpos() returns a negative number, instead of MAXCOL.
105(Hirohito Higashi, 2014 Dec 8)
106
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100107Better greek spell checking. Issue 299.
108
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100109Patch to fix wrong formatting if 'linebreak' is set. (Christian Brabandt, 2014
110Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100111
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100112Patch to avoid recognizing polkit as hog files. (Issue 292)
113
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100114":0argedit foo" puts new argument in second place instead of first.
115Patch from Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 19.
116
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100117Patch 7.4.468 changed how CTRL-C is handled. It does not take care of mapping
118CTRL-C in different modes. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 12)
119Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 13.
120Needs to be improved.
121
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100122Patch for greek characters on MS-Windows console. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014
123Dec 17)
124
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100125Patch to support hex values for setting option value.
126(Zyx, 2015 Nov 6)
127
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100128Patch to fix problems with small screen sizes. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
1298)
130
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100131On MS-Windows running tests with Mercurial has problems when the fileformat of
132the input files are changed. (Ken Takata, Taro Muraoka, 2014 Sep 25)
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100133Update Nov 5.
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200134
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +0200135MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
136(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
137
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100138Patch for this from Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Dec 28:
1398 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
140 around in windows.
141
142Using CTRL-L while popup menu is visible behaves like CTRL-P, which is wrong.
143Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Jan 5.
144Is this right? Comment from Amadeus Demarzi.
145Another patch from Christian, Jan 6.
146Comment from Hirohito Higashi, Jan 6.
147
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100148Cursorline background color not mixed with character highlight.
149Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Dec 3.
150
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100151Problem using diff syntax with cp932 encoding. Idea from Yasuhiro Matsumoto,
152patch from Ken Takata (2014 Nov 6)
153
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200154ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
1552014 Sep 11)
156
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100157Patch to add a different escape sequence for replace mode.
158(Omar Sandoval, 2014 Nov 30)
159
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100160Patch on Issue 166, popup drawing with '$' in 'cpo'.
161
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100162Calling setreg() with an empty list doesn't work.
163Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Dec 14.
164
165Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
166
167Window height computed incorrectly when Vim is minimized.
168Patch to fix this. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 19)
169
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100170Patch to allow values greater than 255 for ctermfg/ctermbg on Windows.
171(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Dec 5)
172
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100173Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
174
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100175Problem caused by patch 7.3.638: window->open does not update window
176correctly. Issue 91. With patch.
177
178'ff' is wrong for one-line file without EOL. (Patch on Issue 77)
179
180Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
181
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100182When 'balloonexpr' returns a list the result has a trailing newline.
183Just remove one trailing newline. (lcd, 2014 Oct 17)
184
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200185Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200186
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100187Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan
18826, update 2013 Dec 14, another 2014 Nov 22)
189
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100190Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
191(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
192
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200193When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
194any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
195
196Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +0200197
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100198Patch to add the EndOfBuffer highlight group, used instead of NonText for "~"
199lines. (Marco Hinz, 2014 Nov 2)
200
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100201Patch for fixing a problem of the combination of conceal and linebreak.
202(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 11)
203
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100204Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100205
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100206Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what happened
207before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about keeping the
208last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
209
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100210":q!" should reset modified flag for current buffer, if another buffer is
211modified no need to abandon it again.
212Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 21.
213Update from Hirohito Higashi, 2014 Nov 21.
214With test, Nov 23.
215
216Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
217Is this a good solution?
218
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100219Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
220Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
221was already defined.
222(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
223
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200224Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100225Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100226Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
227Updated patch from Charles, Dec 29.
228
229Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200230
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200231Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
232(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
233
234Delete old code in os_msdos.c, mch_FullName().
235
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100236Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
237change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
238them: ":repeats".
239
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100240Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
241
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100242Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
243should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
244history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
245Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
246
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200247"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
248Jun 8)
249
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100250Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
251insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
252
253Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100254Update Dec 6.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200255
256Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
257
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100258No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
259
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200260start_global_changes() plus end_global_changes() causes problem for
261clip_unnamed_plus. (Jason Pleau, 2014 Sep 12)
262
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100263The entries added by matchaddpos() are returned by getmatches() but can't be
264set with setmatches(). (lcd47, 2014 Jun 29)
265
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200266Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100267
268PHP syntax is extremely slow. (Anhad Jai Singh, 2014 Jan 19)
269
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200270Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
2710x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
272New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
273compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
274
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100275Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100276Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Has a problem (email 2015 Jan 7).
277Update 2015 Jan 10.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100278
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200279Win32: patch to use 64 bit stat() if possible. (Ken Takata, 2014 May 12)
280More tests May 14. Update May 29. Update Aug 10.
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200281
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200282The garbage collector may use too much stack. Make set_ref_in_item()
283iterative instead of recursive. Test program by Marc Weber (2013 Dec 10)
284Patch by Ben Fritz, 2014 Jun 22.
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200285Related: Vim hangs when freeing a lot of objects. Patch by Yasuhiro
286Matsumoto, 2014 Aug 26.
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200287
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200288Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
289right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200290its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200291
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100292Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
293What for systems that don't have unsetenv()?
294
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100295Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
296
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100297This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
298 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
299This neither: (ZyX)
300 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
301
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200302'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
303Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
304from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100305
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200306Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
3072014 Jun 8)
308
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200309Patch to load TCL dynamically. (Ken Takata, 2014 Sep 20)
310
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100311Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
312Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
313Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
314User view:
315- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Be able to look into
316 the files before deciding to install.
317- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
318- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
319 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
320 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
321 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
322 on vim.org.
323- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
324 there. Can manually update when really needed.
325- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
326- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
327- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
328- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
329Implementation:
330- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
331 plugin separate.
332- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
333 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
334 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
335- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
336 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
337- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
338 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
339 installing.
340Out of scope:
341- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
342- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
343 useful).
344
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200345Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
346normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100347
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200348CTRL-] in Visual mode uses the selected text as a tag. This does not work
349when preceded with CTRL-W. (Patrick Hemmer, 2014 Jun 28)
350
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200351When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
352menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
353
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200354Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
355(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
356
357":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
358various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100359
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200360patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
361(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
362
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200363Patch to add sortuniq(). (Cade Forester, 2014 Mar 19)
364Or add uniq() instead? Patch by lcd47, but it has problems.
365
366Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
36730)
368
369Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name.
370Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31.
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200371Or should we add a more general mechanism, like a lambda() function?
372Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Sep 16.
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200373
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100374Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
375Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
376https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
377
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200378VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
379instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
380
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100381Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200382Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100383
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200384Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200385command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100386
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100387Patch to add v:completed_item. (Shougo Matsu, 2013 Nov 29).
388
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200389Patch to get MSVC version in a nicer way. (Ken Takata, 2014 Jul 24)
390
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100391Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
392
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100393Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
394highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100395
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100396Patch to fix temp directories for Windows, so that it works without tweaking.
397Issue 28.
398
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200399Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100400
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100401Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +0200402possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100403
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100404Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
405
406Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200407
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200408Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
409
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100410Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
411
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200412With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa,
4132013 Sep 5)
414
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100415Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100416Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100417
418Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
4193. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
420
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200421/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
422
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01004237 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
424 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
425 "lucida_console:h8").
426Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
427
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200428:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
429
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200430Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100431names.
432(ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28; Update 2013 Dec 15, 2014 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100433Also fixes Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200434
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200435Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200436With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200437
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100438Patch to fix that on suckless Terminal mousewheel up does not work.
439(Ralph Eastwood, 2013 Nov 25)
440
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200441Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
442
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200443Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
444
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100445When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
446(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
447
448Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
449Dec 13.
450
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200451Fold can't be opened after ":move". (Ein Brown)
452Patch from Christian Brabandt doesn't fix it completely.
453
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100454Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
455buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
456
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100457Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering.
458(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe)
459
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200460GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
461(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
462
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100463Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
464registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
465
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200466Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
467
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200468The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
469(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
470Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
471
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200472The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
473- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
474- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
475
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100476Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
477Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
478reliably?
479
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200480Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
481That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
482Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
48317)
484Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200485Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200486
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100487Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
488(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
489
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100490Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
491(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
492
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02004938 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
494 defined.
495Issue 28.
496
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200497Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
4982013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100499
500Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
501
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200502Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
5035)
504
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200505Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
506carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
507
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200508Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
509highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
510
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +0100511Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200512
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200513Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +0200514May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
515May 19: with local variables.
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200516May 28: with options
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200517
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200518Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020051928) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200520
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200521Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
522optional. (2013 Jul 12)
523
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200524Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
525
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100526Patch to check whether a buffer is quickfix or a location list.
527(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Dec 9)
528
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200529Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist()
530functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21)
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200531Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200532Second one. Update May 22.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200533Update by Daniel Hahler, 2014 Jul 4, Aug 14, Oct 14, Oct 15.
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200534
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100535Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
536
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100537Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100538
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200539- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
540 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
541Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200542
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200543Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200544
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200545Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
546Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
547
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200548In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
549process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
550a reboot.
551
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100552Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100553Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
554Ben Fritz: problem with 'selection' set to "exclusive".
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100555Updated to current Vim, not quite right yet. (Ben Fritz, 2014 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100556
557Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the
558cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20)
559
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100560patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
561
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100562Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183.
563I can't reproduce it.
564
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100565Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
566not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100567
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200568Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
569Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
570
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200571Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
572Or use expand('<sid>')?
573
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100574Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
575
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100576Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100577
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200578Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no
579signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22.
580
581Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
582
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200583Patch to add 'completeselect' option. Specifies how to select a candidate in
584insert completion. (Shougo, 2013 May 29)
585Update to add to existing 'completeopt'. 2013 May 30
586
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100587Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
588
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100589b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
5907)
591
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +0200592Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
593compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
594
595Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
596Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
597vim.bindeval().
598
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200599Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
6002012 Aug 4)
601
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100602Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
603(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
604
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100605Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
606But use Gnome instead of GTK?
607
608Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
609Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
610Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200611
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200612Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
613loading all files.
614
615Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
616line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
617after starting up?
618
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200619Patch to add ":ldo" and ":cdo", execute commands over quickfix list and
620location list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 Jun 2)
621
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +02006228 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
623 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
624
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200625MS-Windows resizing problems:
626- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
627 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
628- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
629 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
630 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100631
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100632Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
633Latest version: 2011 May 18
6348 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
635 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
636 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
637Alternative: MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
638Or the one on Issue 279
639
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200640'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200641
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200642Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200643of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
644
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200645Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
646
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100647Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200648Also question if examples are correct.
649
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200650The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
651Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
652But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200653
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200654Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
655Aug 16)
656
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100657When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
658is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
659
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +0200660xterm supports escape sequences to mark a paste operation. Need to be
661enabled. (Bruno Sutic, 2014 Jul 11) How to know the terminal supports this?
662
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100663URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100664- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100665- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
666 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
667
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200668Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
669(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
670Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
671
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200672Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +0200673New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200674
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100675When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
676for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
677Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100678
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200679Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
680
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200681Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
68224)
683
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200684Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
685
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100686Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
687
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200688Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
689Apr 18)
690
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200691Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
692And one for gui_x11.txt.
693
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100694":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
695finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
696Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
697
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200698Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
699
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100700Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
701
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200702Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
703they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
704
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100705Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
706
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100707Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
708Nov 20)
709
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200710Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200711Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200712
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100713`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100714(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
715
716Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
717
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100718BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
719Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
720
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100721Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
722Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
723
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100724Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
725
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100726Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
727Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
728
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200729Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
730
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200731On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
7322012 Jun 19)
733
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200734'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
735'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
736Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200737Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200738
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200739With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
740(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
741need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
742
743Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
744only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
74521, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
746
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100747The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
748support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
749
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200750'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
751highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
752
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100753Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
754New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
755
756Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
757Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
758
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100759Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
760Jan 19)
761
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200762Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, discussion 2013 Jul 4)
763Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different meaning already.
764Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200765
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200766"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100767Oct 26)
768
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200769Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
770
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200771With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
772register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200773
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200774Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
775
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200776When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
777(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
778
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100779Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
780Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
781
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200782Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
783doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
784Jun 17)
785
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100786When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
787then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
788from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
789
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200790Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
791":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
79215)
793
794Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
795
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200796BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
797cleared. See test64.
798
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200799Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
800
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200801Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200802effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200803Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
804
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200805Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200806Update Aug 16 (email).
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200807
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200808On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
80964 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
810right type.
811
812string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
813(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
814
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200815Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
816
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200817When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
818(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200819When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
820following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
821(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200822
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200823When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
824doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
825
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100826Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
827
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02008287 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
829Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
830
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200831maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
832mapping, how to restore the script ID?
833
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200834Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
835(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
836
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200837When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
838indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
839the help file.
840
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200841After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
842Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
843
844Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
845
846"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
847
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200848Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
849May 24) Update May 26.
850
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100851Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
852
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200853Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200854
855Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
8562010 Dec 18)
857
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200858With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
859number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
860Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
861
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200862Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
863Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
864
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02008658 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
866Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
867
8688 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
869 after typing something.
870Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
871function that resets did_cursorhold.
872Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
873
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100874Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
875one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
876the match scrolls into view.
877
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02008787 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
879Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
880Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
881
8829 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
883 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
884Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
885
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200886Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
887Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
888
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200889In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
890or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
891sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
892
893GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
894doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
895
896GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
897
898Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
899Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
900
901Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
902
9037.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
904there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
905do?
906
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200907Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
90822)
909
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100910New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
911- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200912- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100913 the maximum repeat for * and +?
914
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100915"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
9162011 Feb 27)
917
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200918Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
919^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
920
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100921'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
922way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
923
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100924When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
925exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
9269) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
927
928g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
929the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
930
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100931Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
932crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
933
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200934Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
935number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
936
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200937Regexp engine performance:
938- Profiling:
939 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
940 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
941 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
942 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
943 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
944 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
945- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
946- Performance tests:
947 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
948 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
949 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
950 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
951 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
952 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
953 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
954 'hlsearch'.
955 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
956 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
957 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
958 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
959
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200960Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
961names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
962Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
963the system encoding (usually utf-8).
964
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200965Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
966Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
967
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200968'beval' option should be global-local.
969
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100970Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200971
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200972setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200973
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02009747 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
975 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
976 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
977
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200978With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
9792010 Oct 24)
980
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100981Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
982Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
983
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200984Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
985
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200986When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
987Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
988
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200989":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
990
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200991'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
992
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100993C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
994checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
995Issue 46.
996
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200997Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
998
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100999Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1000gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1001
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001002":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1003accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1004
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001005Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1006setwinvar().
1007
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001008Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1009
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001010When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
1011(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
1012
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +02001013Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001014(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +02001015
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001016When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1017instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1018
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001019Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1020Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1021Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001022
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001023Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1024back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1025
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001026Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001027Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1028
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001029CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1030the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1031FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1032
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001033Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1034Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1035
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001036Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1037Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1038
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001039I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1040Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1041an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001042
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001043Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1044
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001045Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1046non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001047
1048iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1049Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1050or replace with a character and continue?
1051
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001052Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1053Requires configure check for localtime().
1054Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1055
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001056Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1057Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1058
1059Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1060
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001061Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1062Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1063path.
1064
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001065Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001066Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001067
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001068'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1069
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001070":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1071like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1072
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001073Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001074Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
1075
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001076Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
10772010 Nov 5)
1078
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001079Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
1080Jan 7)
1081
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001082Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1083Only with "vim -u NONE".
1084
1085Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1086
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001087With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1088entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1089Feb 12)
1090
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001091Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1092characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1093
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001094Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1095
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001096Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1097 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1098
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001099Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1100
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001101When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1102Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1103
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001104When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1105not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1106string value.
1107
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001108Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
1109
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001110For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
1111line argument -noregister.
1112
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001113When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1114missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1115
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001116When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1117doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001118
1119Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1120(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1121Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1122There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1123Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1124
1125":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1126highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1127to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1128
1129Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1130Probably needs a bit of work.
1131
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001132Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1133Added test, updates, June 23.
1134Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1135With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1136Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1137
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001138List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001139Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1140
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001141Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1142
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001143Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1144
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001145Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1146Sep 1)
1147
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001148Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1149
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001150Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1151on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1152
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001153Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
11542009 Jul 18)
1155
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001156Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1157window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1158Needs more work.
1159
1160Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1161
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001162When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1163few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1164
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001165'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001166(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1167
1168Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1169J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1170
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001171When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1172for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1173
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001174Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1175
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001176Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1177
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001178When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
1179
1180":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1181because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1182ex_docmd.c.
1183
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001184Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001185Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1186
1187string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1188for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1189
1190Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1191
1192'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
119320)
1194
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001195Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
11962009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1197
1198Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1199
1200Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1201SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1202
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001203When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1204indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1205(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1206
1207Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1208are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1209Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1210Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1211that doesn't have a window.
1212
1213When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1214doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1215
1216getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1217displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1218
1219":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1220
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001221There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1222was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1223perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1224
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001225Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1226
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001227Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
1228file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
1229system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
1230
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001231Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1232command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1233
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001234Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1235does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1236
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001237opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1238height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001239very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001240
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001241Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1242(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1243
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001244Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001245(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1246
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001247Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1248char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1249
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001250Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1251Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1252
1253This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
1254
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001255A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001256
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001257Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1258messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1259es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
12602009 Jan 26)
1261
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001262When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001263in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1264Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1265
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001266Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1267a modeline.
1268
1269Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1270Sergey Khorev)
1271
1272Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1273part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001274
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001275netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
1276number to be below last visible line.
1277
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001278After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1279correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1280
1281Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1282(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1283
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001284shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001285'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1286Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1287unix-like shell?
1288
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001289Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1290register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1291(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1292
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001293Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1294Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1295
1296Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1297make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1298
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001299When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1300still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1301
1302"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1303(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1304
1305Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1306
1307"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
1308
1309Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1310that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1311ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1312Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1313
1314Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001315Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001316
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001317MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1318doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1319probably causes this.
1320
1321'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020013222009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001323
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001324Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +010013252013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12.
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001326
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001327Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1328 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1329 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1330(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1331
1332Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1333":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1334option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1335is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001336
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001337":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1338first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001339Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001340
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001341Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1342laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1343Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001344
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001345Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1346anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1347
1348On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1349doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1350Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1351Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1352
1353":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
1354
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001355When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1356'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1357fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1358the buffer to be unmodified.
1359Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1360another look at it.
1361
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001362c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1363(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1364
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001365You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1366error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1367Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1368at the other match for 0xBF.
1369
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001370When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1371argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1372
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001373Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1374backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1375
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001376When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1377line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1378
1379Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1380position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1381
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001382After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1383(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001384command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001385
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001386":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1387Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1388
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001389Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
1390Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
1391
1392When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1393either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1394put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1395
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001396Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1397Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1398Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1399Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1400(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1401
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001402Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1403
1404ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001405
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001406Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1407(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1408escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1409an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001410This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1411July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001412Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1413work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1414
1415When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
141631)
1417
1418Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1419work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1420Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001421
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001422Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
14232008 May 14)
1424
1425Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1426Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1427'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1428
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001429Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1430Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1431
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001432Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1433Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1434
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020014358 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1436 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1437 several).
1438 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1439 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1440 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1441Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1442
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001443Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
1444
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001445The utf class table is missing some entries:
1446 0x2212, minus sign
1447 0x2217, star
1448 0x2500, bar
1449 0x26ab, circle
1450
1451Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1452line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1453
1454GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1455Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1456
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001457Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1458try the Cocoa version.
1459
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001460Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1461changed or the window is resized.
1462
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001463GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1464the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1465
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001466Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1467Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001468
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001469Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
14701) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1471
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001472C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1473with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1474Try to reproduce at work.
1475
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001476Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1477Is there a way to list all the files first?
1478
1479When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1480result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
148116)
1482
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001483Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1484(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1485
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001486Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1487Await response to question to make the register writable.
1488
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001489src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
1490remark why.
1491
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001492Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
14931)
1494
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001495In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1496each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1497
1498try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1499
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001500try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1501
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001502":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1503Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1504
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001505Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1506
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001507Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1508Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1509
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001510Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1511Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1512Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001513
1514C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1515(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1516
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001517When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1518and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1519
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001520Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1521 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1522
1523New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1524
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001525":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1526a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1527
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001528'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1529Likonen, March 19)
1530
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001531Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1532other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1533
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001534The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1535appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1536matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1537
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001538When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1539character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1540'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1541(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1542
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001543Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1544Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001545
1546More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1547
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001548Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1549http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1550
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001551Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1552back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1553Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001554
1555Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1556No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1557
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001558Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1559terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001560
1561Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1562
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001563Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1564but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1565that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001566
1567When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1568
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001569Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1570Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1571
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001572Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1573popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1574size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1575This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1576
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001577Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1578a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1579isn't right?
1580
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001581When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1582it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1583
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001584Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1585then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1586files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001587Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1588indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1589":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001590in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
1591quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001592Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001593
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001594When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1595parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1596neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1597particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1598Jun 3)
1599However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1600the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001601
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001602A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1603Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1604
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001605Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1606Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1607
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001608Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1609switch list is noticed:
1610 switch (i)
1611 {
1612 case 1:
1613 foobar:
1614 }
1615
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001616Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1617
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001618Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1619with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1620go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1621moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1622
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001623Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
162464-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1625
1626Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1627Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1628Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1629argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1630(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1631
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001632Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1633(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1634
1635Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1636makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1637.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1638 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1639
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001640Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
16412007 Feb 8)
1642
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001643Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1644set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001645
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001646Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1647
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001648Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1649Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1650New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1651patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1652
1653Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1654Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1655
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001656Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1657
1658Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
16592007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001660Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001661
1662Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001663label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1664
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001665Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1666with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1667Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001668
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001669Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1670pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001671Patches from Ken Takata might help (2014 Apr 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001672
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001673Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1674
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001675Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1676Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1677only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1678
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001679Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1680Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001681Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001682properly?
1683
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001684Add a few features to xxd. (Vadim Vygonets, 2013 Nov 11)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001685Patches: 2013 Nov 19
16861: Add -e: little endian hexdump
16872: Add -o: add offset to displayed position
16883: Change displayed file position width to 8 chars
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001689
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001690Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
16912007 Jun 21)
1692
1693When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1694Jun 18)
1695
1696If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1697
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001698Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1699windows. (Adam George)
1700
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001701F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1702modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1703K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001704
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001705UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1706to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1707
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001708In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1709the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1710
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001711C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1712
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001713":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1714
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001715When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001716error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001717
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001718Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1719use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1720
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001721Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1722if_ruby.c.
1723
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001724":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1725
1726The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1727it in keep_msg?
1728
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001729Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001730error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001731name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1732
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001733Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1734longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001735
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001736Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1737Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1738Also for ":w" without a file name.
1739The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001740
1741"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1742Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1743
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001744VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1745directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1746(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1747
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001748VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1749
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001750input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1751name?
1752
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001753Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1754
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001755When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1756(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1757Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1758will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1759
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001760gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1761This also fails with --remote.
1762
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001763When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
17642008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1765all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1766
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001767aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1768
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001769When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1770(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1771
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001772Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1773the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1774
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001775GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1776
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001777Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1778superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1779
1780Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1781character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1782
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001783Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1784Jun 5)
1785
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001786Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
17872008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1788Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1789
1790In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1791but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1792Jul 22)
1793
1794There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1795
1796Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1797":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1798somehow? Or use a new function.
1799
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001800Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1801
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001802Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1803moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1804that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1805
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001806The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1807
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001808When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001809cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1810the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1811
1812Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1813has been created.
1814
1815Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1816shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1817fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1818background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1819A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001820
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001821These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1822 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1823 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1824 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1825
1826Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1827partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1828
1829In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1830buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1831reload it then?
1832
1833New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1834previous version.
1835
1836For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1837
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001838Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1839only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1840
1841Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1842tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1843doesn't contain other directories.
1844
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001845Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
1846Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
1847
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001848Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1849 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1850 set background=dark
1851This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1852color is, not reset it.
1853
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001854Linux distributions:
1855- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1856 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1857 xfree-xterm".
1858- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1859
1860Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1861start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1862show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1863middle?
1864
1865When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001866(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001867connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1868dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1869
1870Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1871
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001872When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1873current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1874the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1875
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001876When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1877Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1878
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001879Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1880 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1881 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1882 - getting colors in xterm
1883 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1884
1885Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1886Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1887
1888Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1889
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001890A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1891Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1892
1893Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1894Dara, 2006 June 21)
1895
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001896Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1897number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1898
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001899After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1900the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1901
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001902Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001903
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001904Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1905copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1906error and stop using the connection to the server.
1907
1908Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1909Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1910
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001911Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010019122008 Sep 29)
1913
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001914In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1915check the result of has("patch13").
1916
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001917Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1918restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1919
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001920Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1921and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1922
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001923Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1924put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1925
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001926Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1927resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1928
1929In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1930can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1931
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001932GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1933maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1934doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001935Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1936visible.
1937
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001938When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1939differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001940
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001941The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1942be only one.
1943
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001944"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1945script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1946
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001947It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1948the function name before resolving it to a number?
1949 let d = {}
1950 fun! d.foo()
1951 echo "here"
1952 endfun
1953 call d.foo(9)
1954
1955Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1956only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001957Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1958used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1959
1960Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1961output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1962Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1963
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001964Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001965"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1966name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1967Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001968
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001969printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
1970perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
1971
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001972Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1973(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1974
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001975Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1976as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1977
1978Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1979Jan 1)
1980
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001981Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
198223)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001983
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001984":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1985tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1986Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001987
1988xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1989buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1990Xterm 224 supports it!
1991
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001992When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1993text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1994latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1995
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001996Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1997
1998Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1999no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2000
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002001In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2002VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
20032007 Oct 16)
2004
2005TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2006Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2007
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002008Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002009
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002010When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2011typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2012Sep 3, 11)
2013
2014When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2015respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2016the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2017what happens for the GUI.
2018
2019X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
2020pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
2021clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
2022Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
2023Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
2024clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
2025
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002026":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2027this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2028
2029When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2030Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2031restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2032
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002033Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
20342010 Jun 30)
2035
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002036Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2037'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2038(Kartik Agaram)
2039
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002040
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +02002041At next release:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002042- Build a huge version by default.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002043- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
2044 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002045
2046
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002047More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002048- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2049 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002050- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
2051- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
2052 21)
2053- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2054 patch May 10)
2055- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2056 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2057- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2058 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2059- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2060- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2061- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2062 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2063 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002064- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002065- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2066 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2067- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2068 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2069- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2070 21)
2071- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2072 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2073- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2074 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002075- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2076 Sep 13)
2077- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02002078 Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24, 2014 Oct 10)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002079- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2080 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2081 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2082 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2083 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002084- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002085
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002086Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000020879 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2088 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2089 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2090 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2091 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2092 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2093 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2094 (Alan Schmitt)
2095 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002096 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2097 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000020989 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002099 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000021008 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021018 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00002102 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021037 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2104 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2105 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021068 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002107 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020021087 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002109 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2110- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2111 for multi-byte characters.
2112- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2113- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2114 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2115 been given values.
2116 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
21178 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002118 with an ESC sequence.
2119 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2120 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2121 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021227 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2123 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2124- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2125 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2126 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
21278 Add functions:
2128 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2129 Update 2004 Sep 10
2130 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2131 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002132 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002133 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02002134 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
2135 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002136 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2137 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2138 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2139 (2003 May 13)
2140 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2141 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002142 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2143 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002144 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2145 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2146 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021477 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2148 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2149- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2150 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
21517 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2152 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000021538 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2154 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021557 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
21568 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2157 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
21587 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2159 Kotchan has a patch for it)
21608 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
2161 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
2162 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
21637 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2164- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2165 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2166 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002167- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2168 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2169- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2170
2171
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002172Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002173- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2174 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021758 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2176 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2177 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2178 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2179 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2180 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021818 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2182 make Vim exit.
21837 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2184 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2185 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
21868 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2187 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2188 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
21896 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2190 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2191 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
21928 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2193 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2194 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2195 names in one buffer???
2196 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2197 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2198 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
21997 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2200 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2201 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002202 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2203 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022047 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2205 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
22067 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
22077 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
22087 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
2209 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
22107 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2211 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2212 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2213 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
22147 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
22157 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
22167 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2217 to the match with the tag? Option?
22187 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
22197 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2220 (Sayre).
22217 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2222 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022237 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2224 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2225 match. Nvi can do it too.
22267 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2227 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2228 line 1\ line 2\\
2229 line 2\ line 3\\
2230 . line4/
22316 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2232 the way the shell is started?
22336 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2234 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2235
2236
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002237GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022389 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022398 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2240 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2241 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000022428 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2243 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2244 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022459 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2246 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2247 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2248 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002249- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2250 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2251 blocked for now.
2252
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002253
2254Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002255- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2256 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022578 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
2258 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
22598 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2260 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2261 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
22628 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2263 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022646 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2265 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000022668 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2267 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2268 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022697 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2270 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2271 to use an opaque background in most places?
22728 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
2273 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
2274 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022757 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2276 2004 May 9)
22778 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2278 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2279 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2280 MS-Windows 98?
2281 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2282 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2283 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2284 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022858 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2286 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2287 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2288 doesn't work properly.
22898 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2290 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2291 appears in the right position. (Webb)
22929 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2293 button doesn't give popup menu.
2294 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2295 selection.
2296 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2297 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2298 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
22998 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2300 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2301 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2302 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
23038 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2304 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2305 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023067 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2307 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2308 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
23097 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2310 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002311 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023127 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2313 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023146 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
23158 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2316 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2317 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
23188 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2319 know which keyboard is being used?
23207 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2321 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2322 area (Koloseike).
23238 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2324 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2325 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2326 the font name).
2327
2328
2329Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000023306 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2331 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2332 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2333 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2334 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023359 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2336 required and it's missing?
23378 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2338 wrong.
23399 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2340 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000023419 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002342 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2343 flag.
23448 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2345 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2346 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
23478 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
23486 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2349 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2350 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2351 the tooltips work though...
23527 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2353 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
23548 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2355 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2356 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2357
2358
2359Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010023609 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2361 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023629 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2363 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2364 through files.
23657 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2366 read long file names. (Schroeder)
23674 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2368 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2369 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2370 problem during a refresh.
23715 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2372 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2373 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2374 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2375 colors as it should.
2376 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2377 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2378
2379
2380Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002381- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023827 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2383 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023848 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2385 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2386 (Phillipps)
2387
2388
2389GUI:
23909 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2391 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
23929 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002393 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002394 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
23959 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2396 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
23978 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2398 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
23998 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2400 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2401 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
24028 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2403 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2404 of where it is processing the output.
2405 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
24068 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2407 doesn't work.
24088 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000024098 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2410 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2411 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020024128 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024138 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2414 browse().
24158 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2416 use that code? Or use console dialog.
24178 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2418 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000024197 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2420 - regexp on/off
2421 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2422 when all buffers/directory is used:
2423 - filter for file name
2424 when directory is used:
2425 - subdirectory on/off
2426 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024278 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2428 to avoid problems.
24298 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2430 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2431 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
24328 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2433 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2434 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
24358 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2436 up. Set erase character somehow?
24378 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2438 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2439 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2440 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
24418 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
24427 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2443 visible.
24447 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2445 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
24467 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2447 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
24488 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2449 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
24508 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2451 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2452 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2453 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2454- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
24554 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2456 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2457 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2458
2459
2460MSDOS/DJGPP:
24619 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
2462 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
2463 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
24648 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
2465 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
24669 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002467 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
2468 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024699 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
2470 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
2471 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
2472 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
24739 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
2474 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
2475 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
2476 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
2477 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
2478 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
2479 Make this work like in Win32 console.
2480 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
2481 key code. Use a translation table?
24829 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
2483 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
24848 Use DJGPP 2.03.
24858 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2486 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
24878 setlocale() is bogus.
24888 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2489 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2490 Windows 95 system!
24918 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000024927 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002493 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
24947 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2495 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2496 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
24978 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2498 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
24997 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2500 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2501 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2502 "[New file]".
25037 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2504 that is supported?
25058 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
25068 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2507 Briscoe)
2508
2509
2510MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
25118 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2512 gen_expand_wildcards().
25138 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2514 Wagner.
25158 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
25168 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2517 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000025188 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2519 a good fallback, thus use:
2520 $HOME
2521 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2522 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2523 $USERPROFILE
2524 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2525 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2526 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2527 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025288 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2529 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
25308 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2531 Should work like in the GUI version.
25328 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2533 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
25348 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2535 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
25368 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2537 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2538 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025398 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2540 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2541 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2542
2543
2544Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020025458 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002546 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2547 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
25488 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2549 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2550
2551
2552Win32 console:
25539 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2554 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2555 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2556 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2557 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2558 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2559 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2560 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2561 and the file is not saved.
2562 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2563 long name.
25648 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2565 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
25667 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2567 besides the console.
25688 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
25699 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2570 <C-S-i>?
25719 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2572 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
25738 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2574 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025757 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2576 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2577 exiting.
2578
2579
2580Amiga:
25818 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2582 sequences.
25839 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2584 backslashes in result.
25858 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2586 all options, using white space separation.
2587
2588
2589Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002590- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025917 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2592 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2593 (Jack)
2594 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025958 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2596 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025978 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
25988 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
25999 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2600 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026019 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002602
2603
2604"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002605- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2606 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002607- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2608 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002609- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2610 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2611 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2612 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2613 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2614 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2615 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000026169 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2617 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000026189 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002619 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2620 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026218 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2622 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2623 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002624 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026257 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2626 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
26278 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2628 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2629 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026307 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2631 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002632- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2633 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026348 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2635 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2636 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2637 using the horizontal scrollbar.
26387 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2639 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2640 invocations belong together.
26418 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2642 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
26438 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2644 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2645 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2646 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2647 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000026488 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2649 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2650 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026518 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2652 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026537 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2654 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2655 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2656 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026577 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2658 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2659 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
26607 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2661 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2662 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
26637 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2664 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026657 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2666 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026679 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2668 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2669 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2670 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2671 script can be called.
26728 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2673 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2674 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026758 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2676 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000026778 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002678 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2679 configurable?
26808 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
26819 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2682 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2683 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026848 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2685 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026868 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2687 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026888 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2689 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026909 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2691 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2692 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026937 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026948 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2695 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2696 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000026978 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2698 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002699 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2700 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027018 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2702 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
27039 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2704 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2705 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002706 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027077 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2708 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027097 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2710 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2711 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2712 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027138 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002714 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2715 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2716 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2717 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002718 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2719 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002720 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002721 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002722 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2723 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2724 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2725 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2726 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
27278 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2728 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
27299 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2730 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2731 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027328 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2733 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
27348 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2735 in lines that don't extend into the block?
27368 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2737 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2738 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
27398 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2740 'linebreak'.
27418 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2742 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2743 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027449 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2745 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2746 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2747 'magic' in history. (Margo)
27489 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2749 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
27509 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2751 isn't updated).
27529 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
27539 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2754 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2755 cause another redraw, etc.
27568 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2757 must escape special characters in the pattern.
27588 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2759 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2760 ":w!!" for that.
2761 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2762 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002763 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027647 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2765 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2766 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2767 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2768 clipboard)
27697 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2770 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2771 Waggoner)
27728 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2773 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2774 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000027756 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2776 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2777 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027788 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2779 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
27808 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2781 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2782 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000027838 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027848 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2785 (e.g., ":w").
27868 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2787 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
27888 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2789 for ">>".
27908 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2791 script in do_cmdline().
27928 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2793 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2794 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2795 changes.
27968 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2797 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
27988 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2799 check for file marks. This can be slow.
28007 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2801 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2802 needed.
2803 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
28048 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2805 to skip catch_signals()?
28069 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2807 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2808 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2809 text?
28108 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2811 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
28128 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2813 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
28149 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2815 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2816 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2817 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2818 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
28197 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2820 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2821 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2822 in the list?
28238 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2824 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2825 instead of on button down.
28268 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
28279 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2828 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002829 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2830 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028318 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2832 character is typed.
28338 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2834 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
28358 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2836 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
28378 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2838 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2839 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2840 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2841 cygwin bash.
28427 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2843 Remember flags for backreferences.
28447 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2845 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
28467 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2847 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
28488 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2849 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
28507 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2851 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028527 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2853 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2854 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
28557 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2856 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
28578 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2858 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2859 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
28607 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2861 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002862
2863
2864I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
28659 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2866 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2867 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002868
2869
2870Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002871- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2872 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2873 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002874- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2875 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2876 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2877 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2878 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2879 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002880 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002881- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2882 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002883 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002884 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2885 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2886 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002887- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2888 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2889 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2890 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2891 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2892- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2893 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2894 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2895- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2896 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002897- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002898- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2899 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2900 character gets the highlighting.
2901- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2902 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2903- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2904 (Jennings)
2905- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2906- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2907 errors. How do we get the rest?
2908- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002909- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002910 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2911- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2912 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2913 first?
2914- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2915 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2916- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2917 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2918 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2919- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2920 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2921 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2922 (Benzinger).
2923- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2924 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2925 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2926- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2927 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2928- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2929 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2930- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2931 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2932 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2933 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2934 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2935 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2936- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2937 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2938 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002939- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2940 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2941 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002942- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2943 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2944 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2945- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2946 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2947- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2948 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002949- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2950 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2951- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2952 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2953 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2954 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2955 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2956- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2957 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2958 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2959- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2960 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2961 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002962- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2963 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 +00002964- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2965 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2966 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2967 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2968 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2969- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2970 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2971
2972--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2973 *extensions-improvements*
2974
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002975Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2976- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2977 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2978 calling a function.
2979 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2980 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002981- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2982 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2983- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2984 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2985 http://clewn.sf.net.
2986 And the idevim plugin/script.
2987 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2988 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2989 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2990 other window.
2991 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2992 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2993 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2994 in terminal mode.
2995- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2996 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2997 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2998 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2999 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3000 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003001 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003002- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3003 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3004 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003005- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3006 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003007- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
3008 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
3009 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030108 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3011 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3012 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3013 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003014- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3015 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003016
3017
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003018Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030198 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3020 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000030218 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3022 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000030238 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3024 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030258 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030267 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
30279 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3028 - change to cursor position and curswant
3029 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3030 - how it works for folded lines
3031 - how it works with multi-byte characters
30329 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3033 work too.
30348 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3035 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3036 text.
30378 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
30387 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3039 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
30407 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3041 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003042 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003043- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3044
3045
3046Help:
3047- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3048 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3049- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3050 to the other matches.
3051- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
3052- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
3053- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3054 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3055 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3056 default contents.
3057- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3058 height for the help window (and other windows).
3059- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3060- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3061- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3062
3063
3064User Friendlier:
30658 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3066 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3067 Briscoe)
30688 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
30698 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3070 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3071 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
30728 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3073 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3074- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3075 ":mkplugin <file>"?
30768 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
3077 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
3078 'runtimepath'.
3079 " Vim plugin
3080 <main plugin code>
3081 " >>> plugin help start <<<
3082 <plugin docs>
3083- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
30849 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3085 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3086 item?).
3087 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030888 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
30897 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000030907 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3091 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3092 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000030938 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3094 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3095 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3096 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003097
3098
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003099Tab pages:
31009 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031017 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3102 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000031038 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000031048 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000031057 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000031067 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003107 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000031087 Add local variables for each tab page?
31098 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3110 tab pages.
31117 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031127 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3113 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003114
3115
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003116Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003117- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3118 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3119- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3120 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3121 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3122- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3123 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003124- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3125 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3126 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003127- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3128 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3129 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003130- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3131 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003132- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003133 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3134 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000031358 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3136 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
31378 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3138 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
31398 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3140 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003141 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003142 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3143 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3144 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3145 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003146- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3147 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003148- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003149- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3150 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003151- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003152 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003153- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003154 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003155- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3156 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003157- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3158 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3159- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003160 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003161 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3162 in the affix file separately.
3163 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003164 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003165 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3166 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3167 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3168- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3169 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3170 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3171 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3172 Alternative:
3173 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3174 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3175 affix which is required.
3176- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003177 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003178- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3179 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3180 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003181- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3182 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003183- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3184 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3185- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000031868 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3187 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3188 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3189 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003190- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3191 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3192 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3193 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000031948 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3195 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000031968 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
31978 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3198 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000031997 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
32008 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3201 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3202 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3203 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003204
3205
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003206Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020032079 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3208 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000032099 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
3210 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02003211 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032128 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
3213 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
3214 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003215 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
3216 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032177 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
3218 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
3219 location.
3220
3221
3222Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003223 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3224 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032258 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3226 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000032278 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032289 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
3229 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032308 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3231 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3232 user aware of this?
32338 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3234 commands skip over a closed fold.
32358 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
32368 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032377 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003238- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3239 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3240 missing line goes unnoticed.
3241 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003242- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3243 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3244 smoother?
3245- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3246 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003247- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3248 file can contain:
3249 args version.c main.c
3250 edit version.c
3251 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003252- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003253- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3254 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003255- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3256 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003257- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3258 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003259- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000032608 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003261 searches.
3262
3263
3264Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003265- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3266 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3267 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3268 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032699 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3270 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3271 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3272 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020032739 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3274 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3275 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032768 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3277 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3278 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3279 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3280 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3281 item.
32828 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003283 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3284 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032858 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3286 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003287 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003288 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032898 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3290 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000032918 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3292 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3293 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032947 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3295 so that the user can fix the problem.
32968 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3297 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032989 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
32998 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033008 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
33018 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033027 Searching and composing characters:
3303 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003304 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3305 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033068 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
33078 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
33088 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3309 characters.
33108 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
33118 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3312 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
33137 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3314 'display' option to specify this.
33157 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3316 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3317- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3318 fontselector somehow.
3319- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3320 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3321- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3322 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3323- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3324 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3325 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3326 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3327 if a font exists?
3328- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003329 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003330- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3331 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
33327 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
3333 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003334- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3335 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3336 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3337 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003338- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3339 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3340 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3341- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3342 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3343 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3344 But it's very complicated...
3345
3346
3347Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000033487 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003349- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3350- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3351 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003352- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3353 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003354- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3355- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3356 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003357- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3358 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003359- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3360 units as for the margins.
3361- Support right-to-left text?
33628 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3363 color.
3364
3365
3366Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033678 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3368 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
33698 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3370 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
33718 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3372 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000033737 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3374 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033758 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3376 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3377 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033787 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3379 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3380 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033818 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
33829 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3383 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033847 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3385 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000033867 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3387 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033888 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3389 change this for each release.
33908 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3391 pattern, but not in the body.
33928 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3393 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3394 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033958 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
33968 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
3397 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
3398 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
3399 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003400 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3401 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034028 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3403 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
34048 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3405 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003406 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034078 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3408 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3409 used.
34108 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3411 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
34128 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3413 re-insert the [] if possible.
34148 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3415 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034168 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3417 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3418 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3419 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3420 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034218 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3422 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
34238 Support for deleting syntax items:
3424 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3425 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3426 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
34278 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3428 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3429 a '<'. (Fleiner)
34307 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3431 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3432 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
34337 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3434 detected.
34358 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003436 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034378 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3438 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034398 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
34408 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
34417 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3442 ":mkvimrc".
34438 Improve c.vim:
3444 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3445 "c_strict_ansi".
3446 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
34478 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3448 current line while in Insert mode.
34498 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3450 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
34518 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3452 display position.
34538 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3454 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3455 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
34568 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3457 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3458 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034598 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3460 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3461 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000034627 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3463 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3464 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3465 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3466 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034677 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3468 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3469 E.g. for this html:
3470 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034717 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
34727 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3473 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034748 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
34758 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034767 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3477 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3478 completion?
34798 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3480 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
34817 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3482 select one of the sets.
34838 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3484 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3485 2, etc.
34868 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3487 highlighting (for "." command).
34888 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3489 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
34908 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
34917 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3492 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
34936 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3494 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3495- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3496 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3497- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003498- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3499 (for comment blocks).
3500- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3501 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3502 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3503 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3504 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3505 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3506 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3507 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3508 (Campbell)
3509 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3510 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
35117 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3512 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
35137 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3514 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3515 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
35167 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3517 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3518 messages. And external commands?
35198 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3520 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
35217 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3522 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3523
3524
3525Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035268 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3527 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003528 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000035297 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3530 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3531 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035328 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3533 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003534- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3535 2006 Dec 11.
3536- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020035378 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3538 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3539 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3540 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3541 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3542 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000035437 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3544 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035458 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
35468 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3547 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3548 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3549 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3550 nested packages?
3551 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3552 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3553 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035547 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3555 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3556 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3557 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3558 autocommand.
3559 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3560 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3561 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3562 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035637 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3564 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035656 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3566 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035678 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003568 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3569 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3570 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3571 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3572 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3573 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3574 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003575 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3576 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3577 3 2002
3578 Only add this when also implemented for
3579 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3580 be used.
3581 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003582 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3583 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3584 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3585 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3586 File.Open..." argument.
3587 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3588 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3589 with properties instead.
3590 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3591 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3592 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003593 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003594 crypt() encrypt string
3595 decrypt() decrypt string
3596 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3597 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003598 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003599 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003600 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003601 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003602 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003603 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3604 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003605 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3606 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003607 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003608 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3609 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003610 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3611 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3612 to allow the library to execute a command or
3613 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036147 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3615 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
36168 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3617 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036188 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3619 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036208 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036217 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3622 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
36236 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000036248 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3625 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036268 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3627 option or environment variable.
36288 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036298 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003630 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000036317 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3632 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036338 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3634 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
36358 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
36368 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3637 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3638 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3639 charwise({expr}).
36407 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3641 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3642 buffer for this?
3643 result = scratch(string, command)
3644 result = apply(string, command)
3645 result = execute(string, command)
3646 "command" would use <> notation.
3647 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
36487 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003649
3650
3651Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000036526 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3653 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3654 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3655 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3656 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3657 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3658 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003659
3660
3661Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000036627 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3663 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020036647 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3665 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3666 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3667 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000036688 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3669 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3670 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3671 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003672 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036738 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3674 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3675 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036768 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
36779 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
36788 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
36797 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3680 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
36818 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3682 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3683 when starting up in a color terminal.
36848 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3685 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036868 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3687 function be improved?
36888 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3689 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3690 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3691 this be improved?
36928 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3693 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000036947 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3695 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036967 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3697 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
36987 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3699 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020037007 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037017 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3702 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3703 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3704 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3705 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3706 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3707 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037088 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3709 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3710 using strcmp() too often?
37117 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3712 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3713 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3714 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3715 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3716 the two blocks to the memfile block.
37177 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3718 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3719 with an argument that can be messed with.
3720 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3721 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
37227 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3723- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
37248 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3725 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3726- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3727 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3728- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3729- Do profiling on:
3730 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3731 - 1000ii<Esc>
3732 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3733 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3734 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3735 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3736 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3737 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003738 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037397 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3740 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3741 changed).
3742 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3743 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3744- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3745- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3746 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3747- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3748 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3749 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3750- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3751 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3752- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3753- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3754 cursor is right of the screen.
37558 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3756 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3757
3758
3759Code size:
37608 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3761- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3762 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
37638 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
37648 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3765 it.
37667 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3767 left out.
37688 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3769 can be removed.
37708 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3771
3772
3773Messages:
37748 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3775 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
37768 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3777 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
37788 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3779 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003780- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3781 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3782- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037838 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3784 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037859 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3786 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3787 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3788 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3789 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037908 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3791 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
37928 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3793 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3794 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3795 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3796 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3797 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003798- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003799 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038008 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3801 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3802 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3803 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3804 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3805 error messages, printing text, etc.
38068 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3807 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3808 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3809
3810
3811Screen updating:
38127 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3813 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3814 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3815- screen_line():
3816 - insert/delete character stuff.
3817 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3818- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3819 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3820- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3821 waiting for a character.
38228 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3823 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3824 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
38257 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003826
3827
3828Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020038298 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038306 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3831- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3832 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3833 windows.
38347 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3835 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3836 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3837- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3838 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3839 (Goldfarb)
3840- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3841 bound windows.
3842- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3843 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003844- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003845- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3846 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3847 of lines but not with a single line).
3848
3849
3850Autoconf:
38518 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
38528 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3853 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3854- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3855 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3856- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3857- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3858- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3859
3860
3861Perl interface:
38628 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038637 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
38647 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
38656 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3866
3867
3868Shared libraries:
38696 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3870 :libload internal-name libname
3871 :libunload internal-name
3872 :liblist
3873 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3874 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3875 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
38766 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3877
3878
3879Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000038809 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3881 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3882 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3883 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3884 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000038858 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3886 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3887 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003888 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003889 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000038907 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3891 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3892 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038938 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
38948 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3895 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038967 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3897 window for each tag.
38987 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
38997 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3900 bottom" search message.
39017 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3902 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3903 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003904- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3905- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003906- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3907 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3908 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039097 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3910 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3911 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3912 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
39137 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3914 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3915 :tagargs clear
3916 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3917 matching).
39187 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3919 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3920 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3921 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
39227 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3923 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
39247 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3925 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3926 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003927
3928
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003929Win32 GUI:
39308 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3931 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039327 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3933 (Mike McCollister)
39348 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3935 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3936 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3937 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3938 common part of the path.
39398 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
39408 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3941 gettext and menus work.
39428 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3943 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003944 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003945 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
39468 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3947 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
39488 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3949 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
39507 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3951 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
39527 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
39537 <Esc> should close a dialog.
39547 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3955 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3956 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3957 prompts.
39587 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3959 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3960 the file added into an already running Vim.
39617 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3962 functions to find the window title.
3963
3964
3965GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020039668 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003967- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3968 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
39697 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
39708 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
39716 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
39728 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3973 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
39749 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
39757 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
39768 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3977 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
39788 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3979 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3980 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
39818 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3982 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
39838 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3984 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3985 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3986 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039877 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
39888 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3989 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000039907 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3991 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3992 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039938 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
39948 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003995 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039968 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
39978 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
39988 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3999 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4000 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
40017 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4002 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4003 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
40047 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4005 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
40067 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4007 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4008 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4009 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
40107 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
4011 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
40127 Should support multi-column menus.
4013- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4014 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4015- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
40168 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
40176 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4018 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
40197 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
40207 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4021 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4022 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
40237 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
40248 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4025 name can be chosen free.
40267 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4027 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
40286 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4029 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4030 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4031 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4032 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4033 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4034 things.
40357 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4036 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040377 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004038 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004039- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4040 where it was started from?
40417 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4042
4043
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004044Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020040459 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4046 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004047- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010040488 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4049 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4050 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4051 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
40528 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4053 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000040547 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4055 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4056 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4057 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000040587 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000040598 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4060 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040618 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4062 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4063 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000040647 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4065 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4066 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040678 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4068 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4069 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040707 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
4071 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000040728 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4073 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040748 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040756 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4076 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000040777 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040787 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004079 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4080 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4081 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040825 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4083 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4084 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
40857 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4086 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4087 file.
40888 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4089 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4090 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004091- Add events to autocommands:
4092 Error - When an error happens
4093 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004094 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00004095 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
4096 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004097 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00004098 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004099 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4100 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004101 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004102 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004103 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4104 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4105 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4106 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004107 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004108 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4109 the char.
4110 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4111 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4112 file from CVS).
4113 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4114 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4115 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4116 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4117 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4118 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004119 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4120 changes.
4121 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4122 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004123- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004124 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004125 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004126 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4127 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4128 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4129 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4130 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4131
4132
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004133Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004134- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4135 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004136- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4137 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4138 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4139 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4140 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004141- Ideas from others:
4142 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4143 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4144 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4145 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4146 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4147 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4148 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4149 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4150 Uses Perl for C++.
4151 Uses ctags to find the info:
4152 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4153 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4154 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4155 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4156 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4157 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004158 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004159 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4160- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4161
4162
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004163Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004164- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000041657 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4166 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041677 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4168 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4169 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041708 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4171 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
41729 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4173 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4174 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041758 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4176 - ignore/match case
4177 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041788 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4179 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4180 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4181 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4182 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4183 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041848 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000041857 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4186 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041878 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4188 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4189 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4190 Should work for C++ and Java.
4191 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
41927 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
41937 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4194 instead of words.
41958 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
41968 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4197 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
41988 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4199 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004200- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4201 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004202- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4203 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4204 wildcards in the file name)?
4205- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4206- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4207- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4208 be in another file).
4209- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4210- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4211- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4212 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4213- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4214- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4215- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004216- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4217
4218
4219Command line editing:
42207 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4221 line.
42228 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4223 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4224 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4225- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4226 lines wraps to start of line).
4227- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4228 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4229 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4230 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4231 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4232 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4233 cmdwin does now already.
4234 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4235 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4236 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4237 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4238 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4239 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4240 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4241 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4242 Problems:
4243 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4244 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4245 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4246 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4247 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4248 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4249 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4250 character in first column?
4251 - Implementation ideas:
4252 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4253 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4254 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4255 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4256 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4257 Mode.
4258
4259
4260Command line completion:
42618 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
42628 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4263 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
42648 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4265 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042668 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4267 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042687 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4269 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004270- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4271- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4272 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042738 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4274 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
42757 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4276 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4277- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4278 identifiers (Webb).
42798 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4280 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
42817 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4282 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4283- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4284 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4285- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4286 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4287 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004288
4289
4290Command line history:
4291- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4292 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4293 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4294 completely resulted from one mapping.
4295- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4296 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4297
4298
4299Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000043009 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4301 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4302 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043038 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4304 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4305 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4306 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4307 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043088 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4309 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4310 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043117 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4312 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004313- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020043149 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043157 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4316 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4317- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4318 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4319 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4320 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4321 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4322 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4323- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4324 Normal mode.
4325- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4326 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4327 are used.
4328- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4329- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4330- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4331
4332
4333'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010043349 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4335 char * veryLongName =
4336 "very long string"
4337 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043388 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043398 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4340 long_type foo =
4341 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043428 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4343 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004344 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043458 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4346 func(
4347 new String[] {
4348 "asdf",
4349 "asdf"
4350 }
4351 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010043528 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4353 (Chow Loong Jin)
4354 namespace {
4355 int
4356 func(int arg) {
4357 }
4358 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043596 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4360 func( arg1
4361 , arg2
4362 , arg3
4363 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000043647 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004365 func(
4366 int x) // indent like "(4"
4367 {
4368 if (a
4369 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043709 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4371 if (a)
4372 {
4373 if (b)
4374 {
4375 // {
4376 }
4377 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004378 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4379 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4380 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004381- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004382 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
43837 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4384- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4385 line).
4386- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4387- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4388 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004389- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4390 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4391- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4392 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4393- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4394- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4395 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
43968 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4397 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4398 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4399- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4400- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4401 lines start with "\item".
4402- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4403 /* here is a comment that
4404 is just autoindented, and
4405 nothing else */
4406- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
44077 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4408 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4409 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004410 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004411
4412
4413Java:
44148 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4415 Odendahl?
44168 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4417 "[i" commands and friends.
4418- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4419 (Jason)
4420- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4421 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4422
4423
4424'comments':
44258 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4426 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4427 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4428 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004429 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4430 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044317 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4432 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
44337 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
44346 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4435 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4436 regexp is used.
44378 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4438 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4439
4440
4441Virtual edit:
44428 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044437 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4444
4445
4446Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044478 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044488 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000044498 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004450 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000044518 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4452 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004453 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4454 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000044558 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044567 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4457 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044588 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4459 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044608 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4461 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4462 the end of the line or before a ".".
44637 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4464 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
44657 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4466 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044676 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
44685 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4469 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4470 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4471 cursor is on.
4472
4473
4474Select mode:
44758 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4476 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
44777 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004478 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044797 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4480 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4481 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4482 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4483 normal_cmd().
4484 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4485 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4486
4487
4488Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020044898 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4490 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004491- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4492 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4493 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004494- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4495 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4496 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044978 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004498 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004499 where needed.
45007 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4501 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
45027 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4503 of each selected line.
45048 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
45058 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4506 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4507 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
45088 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4509 Ben Godfrey)
45107 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4511 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
45127 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4513 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
45147 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4515 Young is working on this)
45167 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004517 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004518 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
45198 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4520 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
45217 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4522 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4523 option!
45247 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4525 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4526 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4527 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4528 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4529 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4530 without changing the column.
45316 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045327 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4533 current buffer.
45347 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
45356 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4536 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
45376 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045386 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004539 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004540 or other special character.
45416 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4542
4543
4544More advanced repeating commands:
4545- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045467 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004547 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004548- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004549- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004550 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4551 "y." will repeat last yank.
4552 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4553 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4554 and/or pick an older command.
4555- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4556
4557
4558Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045598 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4560 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4561 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
45628 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
45637 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4564 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045658 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4566 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
45678 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000045687 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045698 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4570 entering search strings.
45718 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4572 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4573 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045748 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4575 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045768 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4577 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4578 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
45797 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045807 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4581 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045826 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4583 abbreviations are to be used.
4584- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4585 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4586 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004587- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4588 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4589 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4590 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4591 Or implicit:
4592 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004593- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4594 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4595 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004596- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4597 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4598- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4599 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
46006 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4601 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4602 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4603 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004604- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4605 non-replace Insert mode?
4606- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004607- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4608- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4609 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4610- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004611 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004612- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4613 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4614- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4615- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4616 ":freekeys".
4617- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4618
4619
4620Incsearch:
4621- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4622- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4623 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4624 up every time.
4625- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4626 folds when going to another line.
4627- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4628 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4629 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4630 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4631- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4632 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4633
4634
4635Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010046369 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000046378 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004638 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004639 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004640 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004641 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046429 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4643 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010046448 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4645 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000046468 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4647 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4648 Perl does it this way:
4649 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4650 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4651 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4652 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046538 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4654 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4655 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046568 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4657 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4658 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000046597 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4660 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000046618 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4662 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000046637 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004664 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4665 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4666 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
46677 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4668 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000046697 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004670 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046717 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4672 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046738 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4674 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
46758 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4676 line.
46777 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4678 example.
46798 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4680 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4681- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4682 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4683 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4684 Alternative: use matchit.vim
46858 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
46868 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4687 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4688 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
46897 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4690 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000046917 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4692 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046938 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4694 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046958 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4696 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046978 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4698 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4699 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4700 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004701- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4702 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004703- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4704 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4705- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4706 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4707 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4708 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047098 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4710 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004711- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4712 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047138 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4714 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4715 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004716- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4717 i ignore case
4718 I use case
4719 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4720 v use Vi regexp syntax
4721 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4722 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4723 Perl uses these too:
4724 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4725 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4726 o compile only once (Perl only)
4727 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4728 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4729 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4730 following command.
4731 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4732- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4733 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4734 for search string)?
47357 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4736 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4737- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4738 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4739- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4740 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4741- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4742- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004743 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004744 a for the next file in the argument list
4745 f for file in the buffer list
4746 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004747 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4748 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004749 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4750 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4751- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047527 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004753 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047547 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4755 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4756 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4757 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
47586 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4759 effects.
47607 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4761 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4762 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000047637 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004764 Also ":dselect".
4765
4766
4767Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010047689 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4769 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
4770 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047719 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4772 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020047738 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4774 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4775 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
47768 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4777 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047788 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4779 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4780 timestamp?
4781 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4782 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047838 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4784 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4785 was changed outside of Vim.
4786 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4787 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004788 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4789 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004790- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4791 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004792- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4793 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4794 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
47958 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4796 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4797 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4798 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
47998 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4800 only remember the lines that really changed.
48017 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4802 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4803 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4804 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004805- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4806 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4807- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4808 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4809- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4810 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4811 [-99].
4812- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4813- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004814- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4815 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4816
4817
4818Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048197 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4820 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4821 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4822 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
48238 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4824 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
48258 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4826 inode too.
48277 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004828 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4829 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048307 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4831 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4832- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4833 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4834- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4835 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
48367 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4837 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
48387 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4839 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
48408 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000048418 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004842 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
48437 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4844 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010048458 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4846 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4847 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004848
4849
4850Swap (.swp) files:
48518 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4852 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4853 there are short file name problems.
48548 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4855 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
48568 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
48578 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004858 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004859 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4860 file the same as the actual file?
4861 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048627 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4863 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
48647 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004865 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004866 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4867 enough room.
48687 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4869 or /var/preserve.
4870- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4871 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4872- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4873 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4874- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4875 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4876 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4877 cached list of which line is where.
4878
4879
4880Viminfo:
48817 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4882 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4883 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000048848 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4885 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4886 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048878 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4888 name. (Schild)
48898 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
48908 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048918 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048928 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4893 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4894 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4895 this?
48967 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
48977 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4898 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
48996 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4900 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4901 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4902- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4903 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4904
4905
4906Modelines:
49078 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4908 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4909 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004910- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4911 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4912 'shiftwidth'.
4913- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4914 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004915- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4916 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4917 modeline setting.
4918- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4919 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4920- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4921 .cpp files.
4922- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4923 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4924- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4925 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4926
4927
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004928Sessions:
49298 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4930 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
49317 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4932 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049338 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4934 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049358 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4936 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4937 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000049387 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4939 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000049407 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004941
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004942
4943Options:
49447 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4945 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049468 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4947 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4948 also be supported.
49498 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4950 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4951 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
49527 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
49537 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4954 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01004955 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004956
4957
4958External commands:
49598 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4960 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
49614 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4962 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4963 -f).
49644 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
49654 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4966 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
49674 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4968
4969
4970Multiple Windows:
49717 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
49728 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4973 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
49747 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4975 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4976 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000049777 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4978 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000049797 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4980 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049816 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4982 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004983 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004984 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
49857 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4986 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4987 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4988 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4989- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4990 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4991 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4992 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4993
4994
4995Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049968 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049978 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4998 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000049998 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 +000050008 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5001 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
50028 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5003 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5004 the mark was set.
50057 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5006 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5007 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5008 ":browse marks"?
50096 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050107 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5011 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
50127 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5013 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
50147 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5015 command).
50167 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5017 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5018 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5019 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
50205 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5021 mappings.
50226 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5023 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5024 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5025
5026
5027Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020050287 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005029 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005030- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5031 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000050328 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050337 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5034 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5035
5036
5037Writing files:
5038- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5039 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5040 shortname conversion.
50418 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
50428 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5043 file.
50448 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5045 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5046 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050476 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5048 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
50496 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5050 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
50516 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5052 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000050538 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005054 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
50557 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5056 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
50577 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5058 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5059 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5060 waiting for a character to be typed).
50618 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5062 line of the window, like "[time]".
5063 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5064 Automatic and/or with a command.
5065
5066
5067Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000050688 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5069 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000050708 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005071 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5072- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5073- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
50748 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5075 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005076- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005077 :s///N substitutes N times.
5078- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5079 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5080 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
50817 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5082 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5083 last line column 5.
50845 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5085 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5086 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5087 (Stanislav Sitar)
5088
5089
5090Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050918 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
50927 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
50938 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5094 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5095 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005096- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5097- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5098 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5099- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5100- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5101
5102
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005103Argument list:
51046 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5105 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5106 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
51076 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5108
5109
5110Registers:
51118 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051128 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5113 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5114 for every line.
51156 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5116 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5117 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5118- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5119 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5120- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5121 leader when line wraps?
5122- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5123 line in the range.
5124- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5125 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
51268 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5127 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005128
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005129
5130Debug mode:
51317 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
51328 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000051338 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051347 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00005135 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
5136 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
5137 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051387 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
51397 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5140
5141
5142Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000051437 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5144 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5145 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5146 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5147 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5148 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5149 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005150 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000051517 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5152 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000051537 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5154 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051558 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5156 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051577 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5158 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5159 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005160- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005161 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051627 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5163 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051647 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5165 window as a buffer-tab selection.
51668 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051677 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
5168 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
5169 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005170 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
5171 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051727 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5173 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
51748 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5175 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051766 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051778 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5178 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5179 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5180 in this Vim.
51818 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005182 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051838 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5184 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5185 have it apply to the following command.
51868 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5187 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5188 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5189 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051907 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5191 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051927 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5193 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5194 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5195 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051966 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
51978 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
51989 Support ACLs on more systems.
51997 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5200 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052017 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5202 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5203 (truncated to fit in the space).
52047 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
52058 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
52068 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5207 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000052087 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005209 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
52107 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5211 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052127 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052137 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
52147 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052158 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
52168 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5217 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5218 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5219 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
52208 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
52216 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
5222 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005223 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01005224 Patch to add async functionality. (Geoff Greer, 2013 Sep 1 and later)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052258 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052268 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5227 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5228 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5229 does something like this. (Shah)
52307 Use growarray for replace stack.
52317 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5232 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
52333 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052347 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5235 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010052367 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5237 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005238- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5239- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5240- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5241- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
52427 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5243 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5244- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5245 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005246- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005247- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5248 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5249- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5250 call "play newbeep.au").
5251- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5252 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5253 (Bhatt).
5254- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5255 blockwise registers).
5256- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5257 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5258- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5259 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5260 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5261 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005262- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052637 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5264 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5265- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5266 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5267 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5268 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5269 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052708 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5271 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052728 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5273 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5274 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5275 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5276 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5277- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005278- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052797 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5280 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5281- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5282 not in column 1.
52836 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5284 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
52857 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5286- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005287- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005288 :redir #> bufname
5289 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005290- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5291 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005292- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5293 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5294 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
52956 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5296 console? (Klaus Hast)
5297- Add :delcr command:
5298 *:delcr*
5299 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5300 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5301 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5302 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5303 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5304 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5305- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5306- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5307 characters from 'isprint'.
5308- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5309- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5310 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5311- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5312 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5313 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5314- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5315- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5316 Nvi).
5317- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5318 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
53197 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5320- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5321 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
53226 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5323- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5324 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5325 macro).
5326- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005327- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5328 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5329- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
53308 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005331- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5332- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5333- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5334 if it is not the first or last window.
5335- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5336 there is one) instead of the file itself.
53377 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5338 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5339 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5340- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5341- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005342 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005343 many percent down the windows).
5344- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5345 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5346 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005347 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005348- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5349 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5350- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5351 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5352- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5353- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5354- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5355 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053568 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5357 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5358 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5359 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5360 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005361- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5362 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5363- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005364 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5365- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005366 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5367 (Webb).
5368- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005369 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005370- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5371 hex codes like 0xff).
5372- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5373 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5374 the last TYPED command.
5375- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5376- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5377- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5378 should also work?
5379- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
53808 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5381 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5382 name.
5383- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5384 trailing '.'.
5385- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5386 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5387 find_file_in_path().
5388- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5389 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5390- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5391- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5392 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5393- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005394 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005395- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5396 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5397 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005398- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5399- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5400- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5401 to the minimal size.
5402- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5403- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5404- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5405- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5406- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005407- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5408 entered)?
5409- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5410 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005411- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005412- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5413- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5414- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5415- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5416- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5417 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005418- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054198 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5420 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5421 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5422 or in octal.
54237 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5424 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005425- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005426 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5427- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5428- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5429 insert line command).
5430- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5431- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5432- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5433- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5434- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5435 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005436- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005437 yet.
5438- Implement 'redraw' option.
5439- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5440 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054417 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5442 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005443 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5444 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054458 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5446 do it.
5447- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5448- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5449 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5450- Add text justification option.
5451- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5452- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5453 off".
5454- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5455- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5456- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005457 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005458- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005459- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005460- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5461- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5462 commands.
5463- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5464- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5465- :table command (Webb)
5466- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005467- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5468- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5469- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5470- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5471- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5472 (Demirel).
5473- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5474- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5475 for use in macro's and the like.
5476- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005477 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005478- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005479 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005480- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005481 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005482 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5483- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5484 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005485- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005486 mkopttab to make option table?
5487- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5488 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5489- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5490 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005491- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005492 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5493- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5494 cursor?
5495- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5496- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
54975 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5498 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000054998 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5500 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5501 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5502 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5503 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055048 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5505 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5506 (Netherton)
55076 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5508 space after "(", for example.
55095 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5510 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5511 (Servatius Brandt)
5512
5513
5514From Elvis:
5515- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5516- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005517- Search patterns:
5518 \@ match word under cursor.
5519 but do:
5520 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5521 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
55228 ":window" command:
5523 :win + next window (up)
5524 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5525 :win - previous window (down)
5526 :win -- idem, wrapping
5527 :win nr to window number "nr"
5528 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
55297 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5530 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5531
5532
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005533From xvi:
5534- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5535- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5536
5537
5538From vile:
5539- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5540- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5541 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5542
5543
5544Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005545- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5546 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5547 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5548 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5549 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005550- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5551 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5552- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5553 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5554 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5555 current layout mirrored.
5556- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5557- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5558 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5559- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5560- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5561 font in each top-level window.
5562- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5563- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5564- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5565- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5566 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5567- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5568 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5569 mentioned in the tags file.
5570 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5571 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5572- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5573 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5574- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5575 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
55764 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5577 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5578 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5579 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005580 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005581 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5582 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5583- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5584 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5585 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5586
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005587When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5588empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005589
5590vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5591vim: set fo+=n :