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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010041Vim9 - Make everything work:
42- For an :autocmd and :command argument defined in Vim9 script, if a following
43 line starts with "|" append it. It's like line continuation. (#6702)
44- The syntax of a range list[a:b] is ambiguous, is this one "a:b" variable or
45 a range from "a" to "b"? To avoid confusion, require white space before
46 (and after) the colon? #7409
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020047- Implement "export {one, two three}".
48- ISN_CHECKTYPE could use check_argtype()
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010049- Using a script variable inside a :def function doesn't work if the variable
50 is inside a block, see Test_nested_function(). Should it work?
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020051- give error for variable name:
52 let p = function('NoSuchFunc')
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +020053- If a :def function is called with a function reference, compile it to get
54 the function type.
55 def Filter(x: string, Cond: func(string): bool)
56 Filter(x, { v -> v =~ '^b' })
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +020057- Expand `=expr` in :next, :argedit, :argadd, :argdelete, :drop
58- Expand `=expr` in :vimgrep, :vimgrepadd, :lvimgrep, :lvimgrepadd
59- Expand `=expr` in :mkspell
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +020060- Does this work already: can use func as reference:
61 def SomeFunc() ...
62 map(list, SomeFunc)
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010063- For builtin functions using tv_get_string*() use check_for_string() to be
64 more strict about the argument type.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020065- Support passing v:none to use the default argument value. (#6504)
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +010066- Make map() give an error if the resulting type of the first argument is
67 wrong. Only works if the type is known? Is this slow (need to go over all
68 items)?
69- Run the same tests in :def and Vim9 script, like in Test_expr7_not()
70- Check many more builtin function arguments at compile time.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020071- make 0 == 'string' fail on the script level, like inside :def.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020072- Check that when using a user function name without prefix, it does not find
73 a global function. Prefixing g: is required.
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010074- Need the equivalent of get_lval() and set_var_lval() to implement assignment
75 to nested list and dict members.
76 - Assignment to dict doesn't work:
77 let ret: dict<string> = #{}
78 ret[i] = string(i)
79 - Appending to dict item doesn't work:
80 let d[i] ..= value
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +020081- Using ".." at script level doesn't convert arguments to a string.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020082- Compile replacement of :s command: s/pat/\=expr/
83- Compile redir to local variable: var_redir_start().
84- Compile builtin functions that access local variables:
85 islocked()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020086- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
87 has('asdf'), len('string')
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +020088- Implement "as Name" in "import Item as Name from ..."
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +020089- Implement using imported items at script level from "import * as X" in
90 eval_variable(). Should pass the ".xxx" that follows and return that.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020091- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
92- Make "++nr" work.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020093- Make closures work:
94 - Create closure in a loop. Need to make a list of them.
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +010095 - nested closure only uses one context, not all (#7150)
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020096- expandcmd() with `=expr` in filename uses legacy expression.
97- eval_expr() in ex_cexpr()
98- eval_expr() call in dbg_parsearg() and debuggy_find()
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020099Improve error checking:
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100100- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +0100101Before launch:
102- Add all the error numbers in a good place in documentation.
103- In the generic eval docs, point out the Vim9 syntax where it differs.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200104Also:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200105- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
106 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100107- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100108- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
109- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100110- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
111- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
112- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100113- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
114 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100115- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that
116 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be
117 defined.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100118- implement :type
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200119- import type declaration?
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200120- Future work: See |vim9-classes|
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200121- implement enum
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100122- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
123 EVAL expr
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100124 LOADVARARG (varargs idx)
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200125- Make debugging work - at least per function. Need to recompile a function
126 to step through it line-by-line? Evaluate the stack and variables on the
127 stack?
128- Make profiling work - Add ISN_PROFILE instructions after every line?
129- List commands when 'verbose' is set or :verbose is used.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200130Further improvements:
131- compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
132 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
133 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
Bram Moolenaar2cfb4a22020-05-07 18:56:00 +0200134- Make inline function work, to be used as a funcref:
135 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
136 body
137 enddef
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200138- compile get_lambda_tv() in popup_add_timeout()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200139- inline call to map() and filter()
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200140- compile "skip" argument of searchpair()
141- compile "expr" and "call" expression of a channel in channel_exe_cmd()?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100142
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200143Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200144- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable?
145 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in
146 current window.
147 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows
148 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200149- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
150 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100151- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100152- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
153 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
154 the way. (#5737)
155 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +0200156- Width is not computed correctly when minwidth and maxwidth are &columns
157 and padding and a scrollbar are used. (#6676)
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200158- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
159 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200160- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100161- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
162 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
163- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200164- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200165 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100166- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
167 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200168- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100169 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100170- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200171
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200172Text properties:
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200173- :goto does not go to the right place when text properties are present.
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200174 (#5930)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100175- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100176- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
177 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaar1b884a02020-12-10 21:11:27 +0100178- Should we let the textprop highlight overrule other (e.g. diff) highlight if
179 the priority is above a certain value? (#7392)
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100180- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200181
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100182'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200183- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
184 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100185- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
186 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200187- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200188- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200189- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
190 isn't one?
191 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
192
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200193Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100194- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200195- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100196- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200197
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200198Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200199- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100200- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
201 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200202- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100203- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200204- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200205 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
206 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100207- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100208- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
209 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100210 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100211 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200212
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200213Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200214- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200215- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
216 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
217 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200218- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
219 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
220 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
221 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200222- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
223 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100224- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
225 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200226 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
227 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100228 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100229- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100230- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
231 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200232- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
233 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200234- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200235- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200236- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
237 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200238- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
239 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
240- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
241 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200242- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
243 is disabled.
244- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
245- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
246 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200247- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
248 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
249 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
250- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
251- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
252 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
253- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
254 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200255
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200256Error numbers available: E653
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200257
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200258Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat, #7082)
259
260Patch for Template string: #4634
261Have another look at the implementation.
262
Bram Moolenaar1c6737b2020-09-07 22:18:52 +0200263Patch to implement the vimtutor with a plugin: #6414
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200264Was originally written by Felipe Morales.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200265
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200266Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
267
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100268Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598)
269Scroll doesn't work correctly, why?
270
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200271Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
272with 'termguicolors'. #1740
273
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200274Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660.
275
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100276Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc.
277
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200278Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co
279changes.
280
281Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE.
282This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need
283to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011
284
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200285Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab".
286Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901)
287
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200288Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
289Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
290
291Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200292Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200293(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
294Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
295- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
296 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
297 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
298- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
299 covered by the above change.
300So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
301same thing.
302Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200303
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200304Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
305autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
306 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
307 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
308 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
309 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
310 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
311The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
312
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100313Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
314mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
315
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200316Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054)
317Is OK when syntax HL is active.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200318
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200319Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count.
320Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096)
321After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should
322work.
323
324Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of
325autocommands be made faster? (#7056)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200326
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200327Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
328 replace this:
329 let left = GetLeftFunc()
330 let right = GetRightFunc()
331 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
332 by:
333 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200334Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
335
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200336Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI?
337
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100338":pedit" ignores the local working directory when 'pvp' is set (#7267)
339
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200340Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
341(#6539)
342
343When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
344register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
345(#6435)
346
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100347Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200348Causes flicker on resizing. Workaround from Ken Takata.
349How about only setting the attribute when part of the Vim window is offscreen?
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200350
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100351File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
352
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200353"make test_gui" crashed in submenu_change(). Fix and remove workaround in
354add_pixmap_args().
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200355Athena is OK.
356Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200357Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
358manager. Problem with Motif?
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200359
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200360Patch to add :argdedupe. (Nir Lichtman, #6235)
361
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200362:map output does not clear the reset of the command line.
363(#5623, also see #5962)
364
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200365Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
366character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200367
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200368undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
369
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200370After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it causes
371corruption. (#6631)
372
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100373When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
374(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
375
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200376Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
377/\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
378
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200379With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
380'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100381
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200382Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
383which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
384#6127
385
386When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
387":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
388Might be related to #6088.
389
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200390Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt".
391(#6919)
392
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200393When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
394Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
395(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
396
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100397Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
398(Paul Jolly, #5656)
399Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100400 Later more requests for what to track.
401 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
402 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
403 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100404BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100405Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100406
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200407Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
408
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200409Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
410
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200411Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
412
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200413Implement completion for "breakadd". Should expand the second argument, e.g.
414"func", and then function names after ":breakadd func". Including
415script-local functions.
Bram Moolenaar1c6737b2020-09-07 22:18:52 +0200416Also for ":profile".
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200417
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100418:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
419Dec 19)
420
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200421Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
422Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
423
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100424Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
425May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200426Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
427remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100428Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200429
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100430When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
431the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
432
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200433Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100434Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
435in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200436Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
437(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200438
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100439Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
440ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200441Is there a test for this?
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100442
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200443Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
444that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
445Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100446
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100447Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
448(#4087)
449
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100450behavior of i_CTRl-R_CTRL-R differs from documentation. (Paul Desmond Parker,
451#5771)
452
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200453":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
454goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
455unlisted. (#4478)
456
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100457Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100458
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200459":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
460find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
461
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200462Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
463
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200464Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
465Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
466
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100467Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
468
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100469Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
470
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200471The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
472support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
473
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100474"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
475
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200476Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
477Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
478
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100479Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
480
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200481When 'relativenumber' is set the line just below a diff change doesn't get
482updated. (#6138)
483
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100484Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
485
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100486Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
487
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200488Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
489(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
490
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200491When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
492default one. #4698
493
494When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
495with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
496
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100497Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200498Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100499
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200500Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200501Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200502
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200503Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200504fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
505
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200506Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200507
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200508Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
509- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
510- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100511- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200512
513Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
51413, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200515
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100516Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200517Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100518
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100519When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
520when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
521gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
522input buffer. (#5302)
523
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200524xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
525buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
526Xterm 224 supports it!
527Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
528Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
529Also see issue #609.
530We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
531
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100532:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
533(#5467)
534
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200535Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200536
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100537Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
5382007 Feb 18)
539Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
540
541Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
542Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
543
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200544Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
545
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200546Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200547Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
548Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200549
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100550Errors found with random data:
551 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100552
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200553Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
554files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
555Include part of #3242?
556
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200557When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
558it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
559
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200560Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
561Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
562Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
563
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200564Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
565t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
566
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100567Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
568Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
569
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200570'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
571
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200572"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
573(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
574
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200575Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
576
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100577Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
578
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200579Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
580
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100581When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
582in a long line. #5189
583
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200584The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
585Give a few examples. (#4288)
586
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200587Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
588work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
589
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02005907 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
591 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
592 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200593Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200594
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100595Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
596read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
597be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
598
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100599Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
600CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
601with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
602fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
603displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
604
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200605Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
606
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200607Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
608
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200609Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
610https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
611
612Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
613http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
614http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
615Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100616- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200617- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
618- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
619 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
620- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
621- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
622Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
623- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
624- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
625Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
626- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
627
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100628Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
629Mar 5)
630
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200631Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
632- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
633 line.
634- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
635 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
636- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
637 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
638
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200639Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
640on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
641
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200642Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
643in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
644buffer didn't change at all.
645
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200646Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
647(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
648
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200649Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
650'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
651(#4450)
652
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100653When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
654But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
655similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
656
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200657C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
658(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
659
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100660Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
661added?
662
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200663Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
664negative. (see #4326)
665
666'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
667`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
668tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
669:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
670
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200671This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
672 vim: syn=nosyntax
673
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200674":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
675a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
676
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100677Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
678#2948. (related to #1512?)
679On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
680balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
68120, #2481)
682Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
683Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
684balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
6852018 Sep 14)
686Another request: #3811.
687
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200688More warnings from static analysis:
689https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200690
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100691Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
692
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200693Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
694
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200695Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
696internals of the dict structure.
697
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100698nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
699
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200700Missing tests for:
701- add_termcap_entry()
702
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200703Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
704change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
705them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
706
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100707Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
708Also run all tests with C locale?
709
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100710"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
711#3927
712
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200713Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200714Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200715
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100716When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
717case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
718For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
719
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200720Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
721(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
722expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200723
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200724Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
725 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
726 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
727
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100728Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100729punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100730
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200731ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
732
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200733Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
734drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
735
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200736Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
737is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
738
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100739When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
740scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
741using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
742
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200743Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
744#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
745(Sep 8)
746
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200747Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
748unified diff (list of lines).
749
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100750When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
751kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
752when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
753
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100754Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
755(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100756
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100757Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
758
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100759Memory leak in test_debugger
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100760Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100761Memory leak in test_terminal_fail
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200762TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100763Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200764Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
765Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200766
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200767gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200768
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200769matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
77019.
771
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100772Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100773Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100774Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
775highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200776And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
777'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100778Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
779Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100780
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100781Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
782Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
783
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200784Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
785Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
786Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
787
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200788Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
789screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
790
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200791home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
792
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200793When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
794terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
795How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
796
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200797Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
798
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100799Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
800Feedback from someone who uses this?
801
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200802ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
803
804Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
805Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
806values.
807
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100808Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200809- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
810- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
811- omit diff.exe from distribution
812- Can we make this show differences within a line?
813- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200814
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200815Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
816
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100817Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200818What is the practical use for this? Need an example.
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100819
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200820When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
821includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
822
823Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200824Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200825
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200826MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
827(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
828
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100829Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
830
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200831Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
832
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200833Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
834window for the buffer.
835
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200836Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
837when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
838
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100839Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
840mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
841
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200842Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
843modified buffers
844 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
845 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
846 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
847 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
848
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100849Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
850- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
851- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
852- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100853- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
854
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200855Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
856characters. (#3246)
857
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200858'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
859
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100860Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
861Oct 28)
862
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200863ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
864Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
865Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
866Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
867
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100868Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
869- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
870
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200871Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
872- Test_setbufvar_options()
873- Test_exit_callback_interval()
874
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200875Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
876Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100877Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
878Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200879
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200880Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
881
882Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
88324)
884
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100885Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100886 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100887or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100888 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
889
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200890Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
891is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
892used for git temp files.
893
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100894Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
895
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200896Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
897behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
898(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
899
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200900Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
901pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
902
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200903Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
904script or function.
905
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200906When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
907E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
908does nothing otherwise?
909
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200910MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
911If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
912(wait a little while).
913CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100914
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200915Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
916MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
9172017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
918receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
919
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200920Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
921missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
922
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200923":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
924deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
925
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200926Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200927
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200928With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
929included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
930(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
931
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200932Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200933Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200934
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100935Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100936Jan 15, #2555)
937
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200938":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
939
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100940Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
941
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100942No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
943No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
944
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200945Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
946http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
947Should be supported with a flag.
948
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100949Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
950confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
951
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100952Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
953
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100954Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
955Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
956applying the diff, etc.
957
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200958Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
959Apr 26, #2849)
960
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100961User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
962word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100963
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100964Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200965
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200966With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
967(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
968
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200969Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
970:drop (remote commands).
971
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200972Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
9732018 Jun 18, #3027)
974
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200975Implement option_save() and option_restore():
976option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
977 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
978 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
979 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
980 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
981 be called when the same window is the current window.
982 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
983 the local options won't be restored.
984
985option_save({list}) *option_save()*
986 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
987 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
988 let s:saved_options = option_save([
989 \ 'ignorecase',
990 \ 'iskeyword',
991 \ ])
992 au <buffer> BufLeave *
993 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
994< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
995 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
996 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
997 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100998 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
999 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
1000 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +01001001 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001002
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001003"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
1004directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
1005Also see #1689.
1006
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001007When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +01001008highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001009
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +02001010":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
1011
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001012No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
10132017 Dec 26, #2501)
1014
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001015A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
1016
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001017Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
1018
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001019A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
1020Mention where they were defined somewhere.
1021
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001022Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
1023(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
1024
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001025ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1026
1027Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1028
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001029Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
1030Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
1031
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001032Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
1033in #846)
1034Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
1035
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001036Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
1037Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
1038
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001039When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
1040redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001041
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001042In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
1043(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
1044
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001045Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
1046neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001047
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001048Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
1049Nov 21)
1050
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001051When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocommand event isn't
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +02001052triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
1053set_color_count().
1054
1055Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
1056responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
1057
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001058When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1059CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1060Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1061always nested.
1062
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001063matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1064
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001065Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1066
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001067MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001068for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1069
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001070Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001071(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001072
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001073Test runtime files.
1074Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001075
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001076Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001077
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001078Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1079defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1080Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1081
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001082After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
108313, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001084
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001085When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1086line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1087
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001088The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1089
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001090Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
1091set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +02001092Was this fixed?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001093
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001094Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1095
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001096Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1097behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1098
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001099'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1100
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001101The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1102
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001103When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1104a command can delete it.
1105
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001106Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1107#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1108
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001109The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
1110for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
1111
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001112X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1113pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1114clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1115Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1116Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1117clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001118Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001119
1120Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1121
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001122Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1123attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +02001124that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001125
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001126Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1127(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1128
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001129Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1130buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1131Also fixes #2166?
1132
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001133Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1134stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1135
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001136Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1137possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1138
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001139When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1140case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1141
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001142Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1143existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1144Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1145
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001146Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001147
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001148MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1149Jul 4)
1150
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001151Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1152Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1153This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1154Christian cannot reproduce it.
1155
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001156Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1157wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1158Or is this not an actual problem?
1159
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001160Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1161
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001162Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1163
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001164'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1165#1736)
1166
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001167Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
11688, #1690)
1169
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001170Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1171(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1172
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001173Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1174it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1175
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001176Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1177Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1178How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1179
1180Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1181(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1182
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001183Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1184
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001185assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1186it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1187
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001188Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1189for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001190
1191Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1192(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1193Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1194later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1195Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1196mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001197Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1198mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001199maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001200
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001201Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001202plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1203be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1204
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001205Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1206 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1207 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001208
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001209json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001210What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001211
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001212Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1213
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001214import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1215(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1216
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001217When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1218buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1219Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001220
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001221Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1222Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001223Another example in #1309
1224
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001225When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1226when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1227
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001228Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1229#1330)
1230
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001231Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1232
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001233GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1234g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1235timer expires.
1236
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001237Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1238highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1239
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020012408 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001241 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1242
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001243Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1244Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1245
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001246Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1247key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1248 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1249 echo keytrans(xx)
1250 <C-Home>
1251
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001252Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1253(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1254Make a function to check for function-like type?
1255
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001256Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1257(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1258
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001259Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1260 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001261 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001262
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001263Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1264somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1265
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001266The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1267"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1268Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1269
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001270Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1271
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001272Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1273about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001274Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1275
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001276Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1277#1053) With patch, does it work?
1278
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001279":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001280vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1281
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001282Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001283E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001284Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001285
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001286Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1287Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1288
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001289Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001290Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001291
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001292"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1293(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1294
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001295Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1296(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001297Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001298
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001299'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1300
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001301Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1302
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001303When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1304Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001305Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001306
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001307Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1308anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1309
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001310Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001311E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001312
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001313Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1314(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1315
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001316Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1317
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001318On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1319separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1320
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001321min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1322contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1323
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001324Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1325
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001326Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1327
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001328Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1329
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001330Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1331no longer support.
1332
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001333sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
13344#1038)
1335
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001336sort() does not use 'smartcase' for the skip pattern, even though 'ignorecase'
1337is used. (Filipe Brandenburger, #7322)
1338
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001339+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001340- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001341- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1342 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1343 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001344- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1345 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001346- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1347 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001348- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1349- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1350 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1351- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1352 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1353- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001354- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1355 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001356- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1357- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1358 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1359 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1360- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1361- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1362- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1363 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1364 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1365- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1366 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1367- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1368 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1369 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1370
1371Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001372- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1373 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1374 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1375 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001376- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1377 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001378- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1379 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1380- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1381 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1382- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1383 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1384 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1385 LC_CTYPE
1386- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1387 matches everywhere.
1388- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1389 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1390- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1391- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1392 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1393- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001394- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender,
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001395 2013 Dec 11)
1396- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1397 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1398- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1399- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1400 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1401- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1402- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1403- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1404- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1405 2015 Feb 7)
1406- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1407 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1408 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1409 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1410 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1411- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1412- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1413- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1414- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1415 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1416 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1417 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1418- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1419 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1420- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1421 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1422 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1423 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1424
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001425Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1426#1350)
1427
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001428Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
14293. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1430Also see #1635.
1431
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001432Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1433doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1434Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001435Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001436E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1437
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001438cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1439
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001440:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1441
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001442Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1443
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001444When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1445synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1446
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001447Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1448Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001449
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001450ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1451Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001452
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001453Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1454Jul 25, #948)
1455
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001456Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1457names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1458Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1459the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1460
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001461MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1462Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001463
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001464Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1465
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001466Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1467#1125
1468
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001469Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1470times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1471
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001472Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1473
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001474We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1475the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1476
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001477Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1478
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001479When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1480emoji_width table has only one entry.
1481
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001482It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1483Reject the value? #710.
1484
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001485When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1486Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1487
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001488Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1489No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001490
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001491Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1492(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001493
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001494Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1495
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001496Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1497https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001498Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001499
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001500Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1501but the reference remains valid.
1502
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001503Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001504interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1505Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1506interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1507result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001508
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001509Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001510work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001511
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001512Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1513
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001514Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1515
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001516Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1517Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1518
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001519When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1520Apr 17) #762
1521
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001522exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1523Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1524
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001525Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1526'iskeyword' for syntax.
1527
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001528When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1529maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001530Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001531
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001532Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1533It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1534Add configure check?
1535Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1536Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1537Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1538
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001539Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1540Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1541
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001542Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1543Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1544
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001545":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1546directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1547
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001548In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1549(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1550
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001551If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
15522016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001553
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001554Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1555(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1556
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001557When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1558restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1559Do not trigger the event?
1560
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001561Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1562Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1563https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1564
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001565Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1566With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1567
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001568Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001569
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001570Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1571
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001572Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001573Only remembers one error.
1574
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001575GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001576
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001577Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1578(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001579
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001580Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1581github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001582 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001583Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001584
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001585Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001586
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001587Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001588comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001589
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001590Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1591
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001592MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1593wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1594
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001595Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1596specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1597
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001598Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1599(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1600
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001601Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001602inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001603
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001604Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001605(Luchr, #277)
1606
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001607Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001608'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1609before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001610
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001611C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1612and also line continuation after #include.
1613I can't recommend it though.
1614
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001615Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1616(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1617
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001618To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1619library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1620
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001621When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1622is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1623
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001624Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
162530)
1626
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001627MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1628(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1629
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001630The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
163124): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001632
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001633":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1634effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1635
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001636":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
16379)
1638
1639The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1640wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1641
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001642Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001643Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001644
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001645When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1646the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1647
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001648Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001649slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1650inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1651
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001652ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
16532014 Sep 11)
1654
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001655Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1656(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1657
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001658When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1659'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1660
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001661Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1662Work in progress.
1663
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001664Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1665when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1666
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001667Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1668Is this right?
1669
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001670Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1671(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1672Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1673
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001674Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1675Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001676
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001677Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1678Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1679
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001680Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1681
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001682When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1683filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1684initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1685
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001686Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1687
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001688Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1689OK to not block marks?
1690
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001691Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1692
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001693When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1694(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1695
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001696Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001697
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001698Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1699(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1700
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001701When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1702any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1703
1704Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001705
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001706Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001707
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001708Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1709(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1710
1711Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1712
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001713Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1714Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1715was already defined.
1716(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1717
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001718Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1719
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001720Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001721Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001722Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001723Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001724
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001725Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1726(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1727
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001728Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1729(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1730
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001731Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1732
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001733When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1734these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1735window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1736
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001737Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1738should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1739history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1740Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1741
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001742"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1743Jun 8)
1744
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001745Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1746insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1747
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001748No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1749
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001750Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1751(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1752Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1753arguments.
1754
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001755Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1756
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001757Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1758right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001759its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001760
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001761Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1762
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001763This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1764 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1765This neither: (ZyX)
1766 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1767
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001768'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1769Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1770from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001771
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001772Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
17732014 Jun 8)
1774
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001775Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1776https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001777Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001778Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1779package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001780Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1781Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1782User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001783- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1784 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1785 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001786- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1787- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1788 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1789 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1790 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1791 on vim.org.
1792- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1793 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1794- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1795- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1796- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1797- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1798Implementation:
1799- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1800 plugin separate.
1801- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1802 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1803 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1804- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1805 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1806- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1807 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1808 installing.
1809Out of scope:
1810- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1811- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1812 useful).
1813
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001814Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1815normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001816
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001817When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1818menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1819
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001820Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1821(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1822
1823":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1824various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001825
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001826Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001827(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1828
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001829VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1830instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1831
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001832Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001833Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001834Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001835
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001836Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001837command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001838
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001839Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1840
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001841Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1842highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001843
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001844The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1845For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1846
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001847Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001848possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001849
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001850Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001851
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001852Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1853
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010018547 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1855 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1856 "lucida_console:h8").
1857Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1858
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001859:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1860
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001861Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1862
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001863Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1864
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001865When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1866(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1867
1868Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001869Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001870
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001871GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1872(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1873
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001874Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1875registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1876
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001877Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1878
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001879The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1880(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1881Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1882
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001883The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1884- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1885- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1886
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001887Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1888Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1889reliably?
1890
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001891Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1892(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1893
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001894Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1895(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001896Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1897(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1898try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1899try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001900
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001901Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
19022013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001903
1904Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1905
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001906Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
19075)
1908
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001909Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1910carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1911
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001912Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1913highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1914
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001915Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001916
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001917Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200191828) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001919
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001920Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1921
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001922Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1923
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001924- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1925 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1926Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001927
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001928Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001929
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001930In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1931process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1932a reboot.
1933
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001934patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001935Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1936Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001937
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001938Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1939not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001940
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001941Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1942Or use expand('<sid>')?
1943
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001944Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1945
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001946Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1947
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001948b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
19497)
1950
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001951Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1952compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1953
1954Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1955Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1956vim.bindeval().
1957
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001958Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
19592012 Aug 4)
1960
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001961Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1962(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1963
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001964Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1965But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1966
1967Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1968Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1969Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001970
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001971Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1972loading all files.
1973
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001974'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001975
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001976Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001977of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1978
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001979The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1980Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1981But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001982
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001983When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1984is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1985
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001986URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001987- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001988- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1989 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1990
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001991Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1992(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1993Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1994
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001995Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001996New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001997
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001998When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1999for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
2000Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002001
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02002002Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
2003
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01002004Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
2005
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002006Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
2007Apr 18)
2008
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002009Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
2010And one for gui_x11.txt.
2011
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002012":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
2013finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
2014Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
2015
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002016Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
2017
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01002018Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
2019
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002020Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
2021they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
2022
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002023Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
2024
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002025Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
2026Nov 20)
2027
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002028Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002029Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002030
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002031`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002032(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
2033
2034Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
2035
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01002036BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
2037Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
2038
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002039Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2040Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
2041
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002042Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
2043
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002044On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
20452012 Jun 19)
2046
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002047'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
2048'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
2049Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002050Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02002051
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002052With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
2053(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
2054need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2055
2056Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2057only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
205821, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2059
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002060Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2061New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2062
2063Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2064Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2065
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002066Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2067Jan 19)
2068
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002069Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2070discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2071meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002072
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002073"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002074Oct 26)
2075
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002076Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2077
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002078With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2079register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002080
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002081Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2082
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002083When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2084(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2085
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002086When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2087then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2088from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2089
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002090Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2091":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
209215)
2093
2094Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2095
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002096BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2097cleared. See test64.
2098
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002099On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
210064 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2101right type.
2102
2103string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2104(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2105
2106When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2107(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002108When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2109following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2110(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002111
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002112When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2113doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2114
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002115Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2116
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002117When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2118indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2119the help file.
2120
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002121After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2122Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2123
2124Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2125
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002126"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002127
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002128Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2129
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002130Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002131
2132Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
21332010 Dec 18)
2134
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002135With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2136number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2137Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2138
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002139Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2140Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2141
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021428 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2143Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2144
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002145Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2146one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2147the match scrolls into view.
2148
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021497 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2150Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2151Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2152
21539 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2154 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2155Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2156
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002157Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2158Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2159
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002160In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2161or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2162sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2163
2164GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2165doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2166
2167GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2168
2169Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2170Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2171
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002172Wish for NetBeans commands:
2173 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2174
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002175Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2176
21777.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2178there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2179do?
2180
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002181Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
218222)
2183
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002184New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2185- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002186- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002187 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2188
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002189"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
21902011 Feb 27)
2191
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002192Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2193^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2194
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002195When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2196exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
21979) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2198
2199g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2200the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2201
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002202Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2203crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2204
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002205Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2206number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2207
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002208Regexp engine performance:
2209- Profiling:
2210 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2211 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2212 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2213 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2214 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2215 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2216- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2217- Performance tests:
2218 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2219 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2220 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2221 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2222 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2223 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2224 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2225 'hlsearch'.
2226 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2227 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2228 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2229 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2230
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002231Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2232Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2233
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002234'beval' option should be global-local.
2235
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002236Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002237
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002238setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002239
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002240With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
22412010 Oct 24)
2242
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002243Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2244
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002245When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2246Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2247
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002248":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2249
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002250'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2251
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002252C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2253checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2254Issue 46.
2255
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002256Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2257
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002258Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2259gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2260
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002261":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2262accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2263
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002264Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2265setwinvar().
2266
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002267Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002268
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002269When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2270instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2271
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002272Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2273Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2274Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002275
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002276Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2277back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2278
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002279Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002280Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2281
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002282CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2283the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01002284FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Philippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002285
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002286Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2287Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2288
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002289Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2290Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2291
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002292Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2293
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002294Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2295non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002296
2297iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2298Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2299or replace with a character and continue?
2300
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002301Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2302Requires configure check for localtime().
2303Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2304
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002305Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2306
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002307Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2308Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2309path.
2310
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002311Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002312Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002313
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002314'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2315
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002316":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2317like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2318
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002319Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2320https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002321
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002322Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
23232010 Nov 5)
2324
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002325Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002326Jan 7)
2327
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002328Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2329
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002330With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2331entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2332Feb 12)
2333
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002334Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2335characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2336
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002337Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2338
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002339Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2340 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2341
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002342Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2343
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002344When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2345Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2346
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002347When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2348not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2349string value.
2350
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002351For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002352line argument -noregister.
2353
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002354When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2355missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2356
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002357When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2358doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002359
2360Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2361(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2362Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2363There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2364Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2365
2366":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2367highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2368to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2369
2370Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2371Probably needs a bit of work.
2372
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002373List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002374Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2375
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002376Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2377
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002378Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2379
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002380Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2381Sep 1)
2382
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002383Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2384
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002385Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2386on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2387
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002388Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
23892009 Jul 18)
2390
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002391Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2392window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2393Needs more work.
2394
2395Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2396
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002397When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2398few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2399
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002400'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002401(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2402
2403Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2404J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2405
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002406When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2407for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2408
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002409Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2410
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002411":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2412because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2413ex_docmd.c.
2414
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002415Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002416Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2417
2418string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2419for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2420
2421Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2422
2423'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
242420)
2425
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002426Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
24272009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2428
2429Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2430
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002431When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2432indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2433(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2434
2435Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2436are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2437Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2438Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2439that doesn't have a window.
2440
2441When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2442doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2443
2444getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2445displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2446
2447":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2448
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002449There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2450was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2451perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2452
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002453Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2454
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002455Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2456command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2457
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002458Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2459does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2460
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002461opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2462height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002463very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002464
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002465Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2466(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2467
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002468Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002469(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2470
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002471Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2472char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2473
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002474Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2475Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2476
2477This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2478
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002479Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2480messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2481es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
24822009 Jan 26)
2483
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002484When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002485in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2486Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2487
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002488Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2489a modeline.
2490
2491Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2492Sergey Khorev)
2493
2494Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2495part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +020024966 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
2497 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
2498 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002499
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002500After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2501correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2502
2503Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2504(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2505
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002506shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002507'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2508Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2509unix-like shell?
2510
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002511Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2512register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2513(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2514
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002515Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2516Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2517
2518Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2519make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2520
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002521When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2522still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2523
2524"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2525(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2526
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002527Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2528that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2529ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2530Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2531
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002532MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2533doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2534probably causes this.
2535
2536'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020025372009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002538
2539Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2540 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2541 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2542(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2543
2544Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2545":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2546option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2547is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002548
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002549":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2550first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002551Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002552
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002553Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2554laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2555Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002556
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002557Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2558anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2559
2560On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2561doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2562Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2563Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2564
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002565When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2566'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2567fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2568the buffer to be unmodified.
2569Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2570another look at it.
2571
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002572c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2573(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2574
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002575You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2576error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2577Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2578at the other match for 0xBF.
2579
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002580When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2581argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2582
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002583Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2584backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2585
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002586When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2587line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2588
2589Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2590position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2591
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002592After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2593(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002594command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002595
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002596":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2597Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2598
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002599When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2600either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2601put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2602
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002603Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2604Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2605Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2606Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2607(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2608
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002609Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2610
2611ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002612
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002613Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2614(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2615escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2616an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002617This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2618July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002619Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2620work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2621
2622When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
262331)
2624
2625Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2626work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2627Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002628
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002629Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002630multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002631(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2632
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002633Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
26342008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002635Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002636
2637Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2638Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2639'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2640
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002641Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2642Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2643
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002644Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2645Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2646
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020026478 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2648 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2649 several).
2650 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2651 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2652 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2653Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2654
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002655The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002656 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002657 0x2217, star
2658 0x2500, bar
2659 0x26ab, circle
2660
2661Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2662line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2663
2664GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2665Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2666
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002667Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2668try the Cocoa version.
2669
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002670Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2671changed or the window is resized.
2672
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002673GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2674the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2675
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002676Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2677Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002678
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002679Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
26801) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2681
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002682C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2683with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2684Try to reproduce at work.
2685
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002686Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2687Is there a way to list all the files first?
2688
2689When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2690result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
269116)
2692
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002693Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2694(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2695
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002696Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2697Await response to question to make the register writable.
2698
2699Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
27001)
2701
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002702In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2703each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2704
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002705":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2706Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2707
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002708Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2709
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002710Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2711Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2712
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002713Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2714Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2715Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002716
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002717When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2718and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2719
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002720Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2721 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2722
2723New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2724
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002725":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2726a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2727
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002728'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2729Likonen, March 19)
2730
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002731Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2732other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2733
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002734The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2735appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2736matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2737
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002738When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2739character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2740'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2741(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2742
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002743Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2744Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002745
2746More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2747
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002748Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2749http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2750
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002751Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2752back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2753Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002754
2755Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2756No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2757
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002758Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2759terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002760
2761Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2762
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002763Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2764but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2765that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002766
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002767Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2768Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2769
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002770Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2771popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2772size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2773This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2774
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002775When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2776it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2777
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002778Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2779then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2780files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002781Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2782indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2783":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002784in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2785quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002786Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002787
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002788When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2789parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2790neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2791particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2792Jun 3)
2793However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2794the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002795
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002796A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2797Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2798
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002799Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2800Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2801
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002802Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2803switch list is noticed:
2804 switch (i)
2805 {
2806 case 1:
2807 foobar:
2808 }
2809
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002810Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2811
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002812Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2813with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2814go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2815moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2816
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002817Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002818GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002819Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2820argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2821(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2822
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002823Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2824(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2825
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002826Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
28272007 Feb 8)
2828
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002829Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2830set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002831
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002832Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2833
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002834Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2835Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2836New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2837patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2838
2839Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2840Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2841
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002842Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002843label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2844
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002845Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2846with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2847Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002848
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002849Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2850
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002851Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2852Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2853only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2854
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002855Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2856Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002857Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002858properly?
2859
2860Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
28612007 Jun 21)
2862
2863When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2864Jun 18)
2865
2866If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2867
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002868In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2869the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2870
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002871C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2872
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002873":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2874
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002875When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002876error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002877
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002878GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002879use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2880
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002881Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2882if_ruby.c.
2883
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002884":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2885
2886The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2887it in keep_msg?
2888
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002889Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002890error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002891name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2892
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002893Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2894longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002895
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002896Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2897Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2898Also for ":w" without a file name.
2899The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002900
2901"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2902Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2903
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002904VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2905directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2906(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2907
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002908VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2909
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002910input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2911name?
2912
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002913Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2914
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002915When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2916(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002917Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002918will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2919
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002920gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2921This also fails with --remote.
2922
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002923When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
29242008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2925all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2926
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002927aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2928
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002929When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2930(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2931
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002932Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2933the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2934
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002935GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2936
2937Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2938Jun 5)
2939
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002940Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
29412008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2942Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2943
2944In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2945but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2946Jul 22)
2947
2948There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2949
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002950Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2951
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002952Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2953moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2954that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2955
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002956The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2957
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002958When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002959cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2960the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2961
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002962These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2963 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2964 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2965 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2966
2967Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2968partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2969
2970In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2971buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2972reload it then?
2973
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002974For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2975
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002976Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2977only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2978
2979Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2980tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2981doesn't contain other directories.
2982
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002983Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2984Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2985
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002986Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2987 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2988 set background=dark
2989This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2990color is, not reset it.
2991
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002992Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2993start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2994show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2995middle?
2996
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002997Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2998
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002999When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
3000current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
3001the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
3002
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003003When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
3004Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
3005
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003006Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
3007Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
3008
3009Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
3010
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003011A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
3012Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
3013
3014Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
3015Dara, 2006 June 21)
3016
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003017Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
3018number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
3019
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003020After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
3021the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
3022
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003023Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003024
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003025Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3026Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3027
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003028Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010030292008 Sep 29)
3030
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003031In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3032check the result of has("patch13").
3033
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003034Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3035restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3036
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003037Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3038and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3039
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003040Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3041put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3042
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003043Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3044resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3045
3046In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3047can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3048
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003049GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3050maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3051doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003052Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3053visible.
3054
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003055When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3056differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003057
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003058The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3059be only one.
3060
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003061Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003062"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3063name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3064Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003065
3066Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3067(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3068
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003069Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3070as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3071
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003072Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
307323)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003074
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003075":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3076tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3077Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003078
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003079When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3080text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3081latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3082
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003083Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3084no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3085
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003086In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3087VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
30882007 Oct 16)
3089
3090TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3091Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3092
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003093Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003094
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003095When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3096typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3097Sep 3, 11)
3098
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003099":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3100this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3101
3102When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3103Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3104restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3105
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003106Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
31072010 Jun 30)
3108
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003109Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3110'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3111(Kartik Agaram)
3112
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003113
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003114Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003115- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3116 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3117- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3118 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3119 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3120- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3121 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3122 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003123- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3124- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003125
3126
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003127More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003128- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3129 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003130- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003131- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3132 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003133- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3134- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3135- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3136 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3137 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003138- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003139- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3140 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3141- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3142 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3143- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3144 21)
3145- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3146 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3147- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3148 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003149- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3150 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003151- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3152 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3153 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3154 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3155 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003156- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003157
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003158Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000031599 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3160 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3161 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3162 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3163 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3164 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3165 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3166 (Alan Schmitt)
3167 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003168 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3169 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000031709 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003171 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031728 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031737 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3174 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3175 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031768 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003177 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020031787 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003179 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3180- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003181 for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003182- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3183- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3184 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3185 been given values.
3186 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031877 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3188 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3189- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3190 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3191 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
31928 Add functions:
3193 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3194 Update 2004 Sep 10
3195 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3196 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003197 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003198 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3199 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3200 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3201 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3202 (2003 May 13)
3203 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3204 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003205 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3206 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003207 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3208 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3209 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032107 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3211 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032127 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3213 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000032148 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3215 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032167 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
32178 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3218 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
32197 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3220 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032217 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3222- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3223 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3224 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003225- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3226 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3227- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3228
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003229Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3230- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3231 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3232
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02003233
3234Spell checking:
3235- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap
3236 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away
3237 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line
3238 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col".
3239- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
3240- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single
3241 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
3242 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
3243 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be
3244 downloaded.
3245- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new
3246 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
3247- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers
3248 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
3249- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character,
3250 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
3251- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
3252 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use
3253 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function.
3254
3255
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003256Quickfix/Location List:
3257- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3258 #2999)
3259- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3260 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3261 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3262 the quickfix buffer?
3263- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3264 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3265- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3266 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3267- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3268 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3269 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3270- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3271 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3272- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3273- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3274 2007 Jan 1)
3275- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3276 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3277- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3278 errors. How do we get the rest?
32798 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3280 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3281 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3282 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
32837 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02003284 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003285
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003286Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003287- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3288 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032898 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3290 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3291 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3292 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3293 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3294 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032958 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3296 make Vim exit.
32977 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3298 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3299 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
33008 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3301 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3302 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
33036 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3304 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3305 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
33068 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3307 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3308 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3309 names in one buffer???
3310 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3311 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3312 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
33137 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3314 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3315 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003316 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3317 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033187 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3319 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
33207 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033217 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3322 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3323 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3324 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
33257 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
33267 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
33277 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3328 to the match with the tag? Option?
33297 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
33307 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3331 (Sayre).
33327 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3333 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033347 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3335 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3336 match. Nvi can do it too.
33377 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3338 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3339 line 1\ line 2\\
3340 line 2\ line 3\\
3341 . line4/
33426 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3343 the way the shell is started?
33446 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3345 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3346
3347
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003348GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033499 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033508 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3351 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3352 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000033538 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3354 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3355 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033569 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3357 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3358 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3359 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003360- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3361 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3362 blocked for now.
3363
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003364
3365Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003366- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3367 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033688 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3369 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3370 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033716 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3372 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000033738 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3374 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3375 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033767 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3377 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3378 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033797 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3380 2004 May 9)
33818 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3382 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3383 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3384 MS-Windows 98?
3385 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3386 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3387 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3388 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033898 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3390 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3391 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3392 doesn't work properly.
33938 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3394 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3395 appears in the right position. (Webb)
33969 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3397 button doesn't give popup menu.
3398 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3399 selection.
3400 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3401 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3402 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
34038 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3404 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3405 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3406 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
34078 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3408 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3409 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034107 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3411 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003412 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034137 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3414 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034156 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
34168 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3417 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3418 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
34198 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3420 know which keyboard is being used?
34217 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3422 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3423 area (Koloseike).
34248 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3425 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3426 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3427 the font name).
3428
3429
3430Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034316 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3432 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3433 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3434 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3435 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034369 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3437 required and it's missing?
34388 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3439 wrong.
34409 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3441 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000034429 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003443 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3444 flag.
34458 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3446 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3447 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
34488 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
34496 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3450 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3451 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3452 the tooltips work though...
34537 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3454 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
34558 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3456 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3457 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3458
3459
3460Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010034619 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3462 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034639 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3464 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3465 through files.
34667 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3467 read long file names. (Schroeder)
34684 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3469 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3470 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3471 problem during a refresh.
34725 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3473 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3474 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3475 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3476 colors as it should.
3477 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3478 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3479
3480
3481Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003482- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034837 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3484 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034858 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3486 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3487 (Phillipps)
3488
3489
3490GUI:
34919 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3492 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
34939 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003494 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003495 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
34969 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3497 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034988 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3499 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3500 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
35018 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3502 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3503 of where it is processing the output.
3504 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
35058 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3506 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010035078 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000035088 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3509 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3510 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020035118 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035128 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3513 browse().
35148 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3515 use that code? Or use console dialog.
35168 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3517 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000035187 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3519 - regexp on/off
3520 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3521 when all buffers/directory is used:
3522 - filter for file name
3523 when directory is used:
3524 - subdirectory on/off
3525 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035268 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3527 to avoid problems.
35288 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3529 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3530 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
35318 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3532 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3533 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
35348 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3535 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035368 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
35377 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3538 visible.
35397 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3540 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
35417 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3542 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
35438 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3544 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
35458 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3546 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3547 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3548 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3549- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
35504 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3551 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3552 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3553
3554
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003555Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035568 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3557 a good fallback, thus use:
3558 $HOME
3559 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3560 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3561 $USERPROFILE
3562 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3563 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3564 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3565 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035668 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3567 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
35688 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3569 Should work like in the GUI version.
35708 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3571 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
35728 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3573 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
35748 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3575 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3576 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035778 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3578 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3579 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3580
3581
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003582Win32 console:
35839 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3584 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3585 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3586 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3587 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3588 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3589 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3590 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3591 and the file is not saved.
3592 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3593 long name.
35948 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3595 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
35967 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3597 besides the console.
35988 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
35999 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3600 <C-S-i>?
36019 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3602 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
36038 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3604 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003605
3606
3607Amiga:
36088 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3609 sequences.
36109 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3611 backslashes in result.
36128 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3613 all options, using white space separation.
3614
3615
3616Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003617- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036187 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3619 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3620 (Jack)
3621 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036228 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3623 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036248 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
36258 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
36269 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3627 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036289 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003629
3630
3631"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003632- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3633 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000036349 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3635 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000036369 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003637 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3638 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036398 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3640 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3641 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003642 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036437 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3644 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
36458 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3646 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3647 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036487 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3649 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003650- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3651 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036528 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3653 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3654 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3655 using the horizontal scrollbar.
36567 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3657 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3658 invocations belong together.
36598 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3660 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
36618 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3662 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3663 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003664 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036658 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3666 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3667 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036688 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3669 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036707 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3671 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3672 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3673 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036747 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3675 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3676 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
36777 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3678 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3679 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
36807 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3681 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036827 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3683 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036849 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3685 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3686 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3687 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3688 script can be called.
36898 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3690 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3691 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036928 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3693 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036948 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003695 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3696 configurable?
36978 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036988 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3699 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020037008 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3701 is a multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037028 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3703 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037049 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3705 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3706 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037077 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037088 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3709 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3710 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000037118 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3712 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003713 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3714 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037158 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3716 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
37179 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3718 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3719 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003720 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037217 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3722 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037237 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3724 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3725 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3726 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037278 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003728 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3729 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3730 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3731 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003732 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3733 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003734 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003735 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003736 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3737 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3738 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3739 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3740 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037418 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3742 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
37438 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3744 in lines that don't extend into the block?
37458 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3746 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3747 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
37488 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3749 'linebreak'.
37508 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3751 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3752 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037539 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3754 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3755 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3756 'magic' in history. (Margo)
37579 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3758 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037599 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
37609 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3761 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3762 cause another redraw, etc.
37638 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3764 must escape special characters in the pattern.
37658 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3766 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3767 ":w!!" for that.
3768 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3769 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003770 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037717 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3772 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3773 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3774 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3775 clipboard)
37767 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3777 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3778 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000037796 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3780 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3781 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037828 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3783 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
37848 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3785 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3786 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
37878 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3788 (e.g., ":w").
37898 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3790 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037918 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3792 script in do_cmdline().
37938 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3794 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3795 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3796 changes.
37978 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3798 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37998 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3800 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038018 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3802 to skip catch_signals()?
38039 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3804 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3805 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3806 text?
38078 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3808 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
38098 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3810 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
38119 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3812 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3813 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3814 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3815 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
38167 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3817 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3818 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3819 in the list?
38208 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3821 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3822 instead of on button down.
38238 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038248 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3825 character is typed.
38268 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3827 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
38288 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3829 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
38308 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3831 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3832 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3833 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3834 cygwin bash.
38357 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3836 Remember flags for backreferences.
38377 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3838 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
38397 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3840 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
38418 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3842 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
38437 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3844 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038457 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3846 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3847 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
38487 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3849 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
38508 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3851 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003852 that the user knows the files have to be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003853
3854
3855I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
38569 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3857 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3858 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003859
3860
3861Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003862- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3863 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3864 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003865- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3866 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3867 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3868 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3869 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3870 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003871 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003872- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3873 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003874 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003875 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3876 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3877 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003878- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3879 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3880 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3881 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3882 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3883- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3884 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3885 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3886- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3887 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003888- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003889- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3890 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3891 character gets the highlighting.
3892- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3893 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3894- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3895 (Jennings)
3896- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003897- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003898- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003899 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003900- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3901 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3902 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3903- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3904 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3905 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3906 (Benzinger).
3907- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3908 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3909 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3910- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3911 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3912- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3913 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3914- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3915 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3916 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3917 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3918 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3919 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3920- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3921 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3922 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003923- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3924 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3925 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003926- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3927 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3928 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3929- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3930 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3931- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3932 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003933- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3934 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3935- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3936 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3937 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3938 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3939 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3940- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3941 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3942 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3943- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3944 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3945 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003946- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3947 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 +00003948- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3949 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3950 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3951 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3952 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3953- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3954 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3955
3956--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3957 *extensions-improvements*
3958
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003959Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3960- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3961 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3962 calling a function.
3963 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3964 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003965- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3966 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003967 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003968- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3969 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3970 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3971 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3972 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3973 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003974 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003975- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3976 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3977 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003978- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3979 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039808 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3981 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3982 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3983 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003984- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3985 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003986
3987
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003988Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039898 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3990 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039918 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3992 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039938 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3994 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039958 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039969 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3997 - change to cursor position and curswant
3998 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3999 - how it works for folded lines
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004000 - how it works with multibyte characters
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040019 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
4002 work too.
40038 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
4004 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
4005 text.
40068 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
40077 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
4008 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
40097 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
4010 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004011 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004012- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
4013
4014
4015Help:
4016- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
4017 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
4018- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
4019 to the other matches.
4020- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004021- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
4022 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02004023 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004024 default contents.
4025- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4026 height for the help window (and other windows).
4027- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4028- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4029- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4030
4031
4032User Friendlier:
40338 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4034 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4035 Briscoe)
40368 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
40378 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4038 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4039 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
40408 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4041 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4042- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4043 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004044- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
40459 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4046 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4047 item?).
4048 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040498 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000040507 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4051 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4052 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000040538 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4054 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4055 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4056 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004057
4058
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004059Tab pages:
40609 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040617 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4062 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040638 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000040648 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040657 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040667 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004067 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040688 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4069 tab pages.
40707 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4071
4072
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004073Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004074- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004075 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004076- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4077 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4078 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4079- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4080 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004081- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4082 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4083 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004084- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4085 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4086 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004087- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004088 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4089 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040908 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4091 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40928 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4093 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40948 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4095 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004096 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004097 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4098 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4099 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4100 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004101- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4102 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004103- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004104- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4105 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004106- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004107 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004108- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004109 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004110- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4111 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004112- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4113 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4114- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004115 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004116 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4117 in the affix file separately.
4118 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004119 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004120 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4121 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4122 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4123- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4124 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4125 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4126 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4127 Alternative:
4128 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4129 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4130 affix which is required.
4131- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004132 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004133- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4134 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4135 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004136- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4137 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004138- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4139 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4140- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041418 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4142 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4143 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4144 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004145- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4146 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4147 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4148 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041498 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4150 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041518 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
41528 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4153 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041547 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
41558 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4156 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4157 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4158 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004159
4160
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004161Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020041629 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4163 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020041648 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004165 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004166
4167Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004168 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4169 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041708 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4171 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041728 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4173 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041748 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4175 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4176 user aware of this?
41778 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4178 commands skip over a closed fold.
41798 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41808 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041817 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004182- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4183 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4184 missing line goes unnoticed.
4185 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004186- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4187 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4188 smoother?
4189- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4190 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004191- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4192 file can contain:
4193 args version.c main.c
4194 edit version.c
4195 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004196- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004197- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4198 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004199- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4200 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004201- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4202 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004203- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004204
4205Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004206- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4207 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4208 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4209 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042109 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4211 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4212 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4213 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042149 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4215 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4216 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042178 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4218 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4219 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4220 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4221 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4222 item.
42238 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004224 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4225 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042268 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4227 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042288 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4229 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4230 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042317 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4232 so that the user can fix the problem.
42338 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4234 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042359 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020042368 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters.
42378 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042388 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042397 Searching and composing characters:
4240 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004241 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4242 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042438 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
42448 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020042458 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004246 characters.
42478 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
42488 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4249 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
42507 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4251 'display' option to specify this.
42527 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4253 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4254- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4255 fontselector somehow.
4256- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4257 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4258- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4259 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4260- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4261 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4262 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4263 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4264 if a font exists?
4265- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004266 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004267- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4268 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004269- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004270 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4271 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004272 at a multibyte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004273- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4274 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004275 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02004276- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004277 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4278 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4279 But it's very complicated...
4280
4281
4282Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042837 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004284- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4285- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4286 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004287- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4288 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004289- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4290- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4291 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004292- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4293 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004294- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4295 units as for the margins.
4296- Support right-to-left text?
42978 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4298 color.
4299
4300
4301Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043028 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4303 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
43048 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4305 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
43068 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4307 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000043087 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4309 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043108 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4311 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4312 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043137 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4314 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4315 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043168 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
43179 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4318 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043197 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4320 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000043217 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4322 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043238 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4324 change this for each release.
43258 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4326 pattern, but not in the body.
43278 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4328 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4329 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043308 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010043318 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004332 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4333 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043348 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4335 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
43368 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4337 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004338 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043398 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4340 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4341 used.
43428 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4343 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
43448 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4345 re-insert the [] if possible.
43468 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4347 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000043488 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4349 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4350 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4351 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4352 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043538 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4354 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
43558 Support for deleting syntax items:
4356 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4357 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4358 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
43598 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4360 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4361 a '<'. (Fleiner)
43627 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4363 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4364 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
43657 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4366 detected.
43678 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004368 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043698 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4370 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043718 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43728 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43737 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4374 ":mkvimrc".
43758 Improve c.vim:
4376 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4377 "c_strict_ansi".
4378 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43798 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4380 current line while in Insert mode.
43818 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4382 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43838 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4384 display position.
43858 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4386 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4387 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43888 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4389 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4390 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043917 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4392 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4393 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4394 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4395 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043967 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4397 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4398 E.g. for this html:
4399 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044007 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
44017 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4402 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044038 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
44048 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044057 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4406 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4407 completion?
44088 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4409 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
44107 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4411 select one of the sets.
44128 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4413 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4414 2, etc.
44158 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4416 highlighting (for "." command).
44178 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4418 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
44198 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
44207 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4421 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
44226 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4423 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4424- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4425 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4426- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004427- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4428 (for comment blocks).
4429- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4430 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4431 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4432 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4433 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4434 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4435 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4436 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4437 (Campbell)
4438 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4439 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
44407 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4441 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
44427 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4443 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4444 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
44457 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4446 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4447 messages. And external commands?
44488 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4449 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
44507 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4451 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4452
4453
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004454Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044558 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4456 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004457 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000044587 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4459 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4460 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004461- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020044628 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4463 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4464 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4465 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4466 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4467 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044687 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4469 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044708 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044718 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4472 can be the plugin name.
4473 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4474 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044757 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4476 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4477 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4478 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4479 autocommand.
4480 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4481 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4482 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4483 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044847 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4485 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044866 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4487 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044888 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004489 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4490 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004491 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4492 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4493 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004494 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4495 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4496 3 2002
4497 Only add this when also implemented for
4498 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4499 be used.
4500 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004501 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4502 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4503 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4504 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4505 File.Open..." argument.
4506 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4507 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4508 with properties instead.
4509 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4510 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4511 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004512 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004513 crypt() encrypt string
4514 decrypt() decrypt string
4515 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4516 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004517 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004518 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004519 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004520 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004521 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004522 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4523 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004524 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4525 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004526 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004527 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4528 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4529 to allow the library to execute a command or
4530 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045317 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4532 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
45338 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4534 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045358 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4536 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045378 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045386 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045398 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4540 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045418 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4542 option or environment variable.
45438 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045448 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004545 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045467 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4547 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045488 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4549 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
45508 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
45518 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4552 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4553 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4554 charwise({expr}).
45557 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4556 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4557 buffer for this?
4558 result = scratch(string, command)
4559 result = apply(string, command)
4560 result = execute(string, command)
4561 "command" would use <> notation.
4562 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45637 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004564
4565
4566Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045676 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4568 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4569 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4570 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4571 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4572 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4573 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004574
4575
4576Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045777 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4578 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045797 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4580 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4581 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4582 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045838 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4584 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4585 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4586 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004587 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045888 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45899 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45908 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45917 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4592 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45938 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4594 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4595 when starting up in a color terminal.
45968 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4597 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045988 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4599 function be improved?
46008 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4601 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4602 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4603 this be improved?
46048 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4605 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000046067 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4607 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046087 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4609 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
46107 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4611 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046127 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4613 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4614 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4615 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4616 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4617 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4618 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046198 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4620 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4621 using strcmp() too often?
46227 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4623 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4624 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4625 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4626 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4627 the two blocks to the memfile block.
46287 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4629 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4630 with an argument that can be messed with.
4631 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4632 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
46337 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4634- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
46358 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4636 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4637- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4638 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4639- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4640- Do profiling on:
4641 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004642 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4643 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4644 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4645 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4646 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4647 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004648 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046497 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4650 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4651 changed).
4652 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4653 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4654- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4655- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4656 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4657- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4658 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4659 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004660- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4661- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4662 cursor is right of the screen.
46638 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4664 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4665
4666
4667Code size:
46688 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4669- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4670 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46718 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46728 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4673 it.
46747 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4675 left out.
46768 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4677 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046788 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004679
4680
4681Messages:
46828 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4683 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46848 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4685 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46868 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4687 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004688- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4689 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4690- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
46919 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4692 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4693 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4694 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4695 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046968 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4697 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46988 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4699 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4700 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4701 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4702 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4703 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004704- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004705 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047068 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4707 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4708 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4709 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4710 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4711 error messages, printing text, etc.
47128 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4713 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4714 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4715
4716
4717Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004718- screen_line():
4719 - insert/delete character stuff.
4720 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4721- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4722 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4723- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4724 waiting for a character.
47258 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4726 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4727 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004728
4729Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020047308 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047316 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4732- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4733 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4734 windows.
47357 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4736 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4737 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4738- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4739 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4740 (Goldfarb)
4741- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4742 bound windows.
4743- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4744 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004745- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004746- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4747 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4748 of lines but not with a single line).
4749
4750
4751Autoconf:
47528 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
47538 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4754 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4755- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4756 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4757- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4758- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4759- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4760
4761
4762Perl interface:
47638 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047647 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47657 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47666 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4767
4768
4769Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047708 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4771 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047726 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4773 :libload internal-name libname
4774 :libunload internal-name
4775 :liblist
4776 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4777 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4778 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47796 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4780
4781
4782Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047839 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4784 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4785 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4786 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4787 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047888 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4789 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4790 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004791 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004792 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047937 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4794 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4795 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047968 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47978 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4798 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047997 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4800 window for each tag.
48017 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
48027 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4803 bottom" search message.
48047 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4805 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4806 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004807- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4808- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004809- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4810 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4811 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048127 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4813 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4814 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4815 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
48167 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4817 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4818 :tagargs clear
4819 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4820 matching).
48217 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4822 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4823 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4824 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
48257 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4826 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
48277 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4828 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4829 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004830
4831
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004832Win32 GUI:
48338 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4834 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048357 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4836 (Mike McCollister)
48378 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4838 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4839 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4840 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4841 common part of the path.
48428 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
48438 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4844 gettext and menus work.
48458 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4846 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004847 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004848 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
48498 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4850 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
48518 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4852 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
48537 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4854 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
48557 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
48567 <Esc> should close a dialog.
48577 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4858 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4859 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4860 prompts.
48617 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4862 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4863 the file added into an already running Vim.
48647 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4865 functions to find the window title.
4866
4867
4868GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048697 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48708 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48716 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48728 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4873 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48749 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48757 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48768 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4877 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48788 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4879 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4880 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48818 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4882 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48838 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4884 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4885 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4886 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048877 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48888 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4889 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048907 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4891 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4892 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048938 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48948 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004895 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048968 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48978 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48988 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4899 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4900 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
49017 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4902 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4903 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
49047 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4905 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
49067 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4907 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4908 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4909 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049107 Should support multi-column menus.
4911- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4912 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4913- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
49148 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
49156 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4916 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
49177 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
49187 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4919 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4920 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
49217 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
49228 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4923 name can be chosen free.
49247 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4925 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
49266 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4927 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4928 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4929 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4930 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4931 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4932 things.
49337 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4934 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049357 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004936 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004937- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4938 where it was started from?
49397 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4940
4941
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004942Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020049439 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4944 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004945- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049468 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4947 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4948 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4949 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
49508 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4951 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000049527 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4953 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4954 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4955 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049567 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049578 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4958 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049598 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4960 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4961 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049627 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4963 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4964 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049658 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4966 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4967 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049688 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4969 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049708 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049716 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4972 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049737 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049747 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004975 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4976 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4977 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049785 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4979 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4980 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49817 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4982 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4983 file.
49848 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4985 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4986 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004987- Add events to autocommands:
4988 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004989 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004990 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4991 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004992 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004993 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004994 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4995 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4996 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4997 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004998 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004999 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
5000 the char.
5001 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
5002 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
5003 file from CVS).
5004 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
5005 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
5006 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
5007 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
5008 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
5009 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005010 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
5011 changes.
5012 WinResized - After a window has been resized
5013 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005014- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005015 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005016 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005017 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
5018 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
5019 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
5020 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
5021 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
5022
5023
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005024Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005025- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5026 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005027- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5028 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5029 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5030 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5031 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005032- Ideas from others:
5033 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5034 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5035 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5036 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5037 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5038 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5039 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5040 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5041 Uses Perl for C++.
5042 Uses ctags to find the info:
5043 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5044 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5045 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5046 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5047 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5048 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005049 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005050 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5051- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5052
5053
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005054Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005055- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050567 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5057 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050587 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5059 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5060 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050618 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5062 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50639 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5064 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5065 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050668 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5067 - ignore/match case
5068 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050698 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5070 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5071 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5072 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5073 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5074 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050758 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050767 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5077 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050788 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5079 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5080 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5081 Should work for C++ and Java.
5082 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50837 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50847 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5085 instead of words.
50868 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50878 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5088 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50898 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5090 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005091- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5092 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005093- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5094 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5095 wildcards in the file name)?
5096- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5097- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5098- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5099 be in another file).
5100- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5101- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5102- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5103 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5104- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5105- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5106- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005107- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5108
5109
5110Command line editing:
51117 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5112 line.
51138 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5114 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5115 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5116- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5117 lines wraps to start of line).
5118- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5119 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5120 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5121 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5122 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5123 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5124 cmdwin does now already.
5125 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5126 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5127 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5128 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5129 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5130 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5131 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5132 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5133 Problems:
5134 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5135 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5136 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5137 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5138 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5139 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5140 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5141 character in first column?
5142 - Implementation ideas:
5143 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5144 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5145 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5146 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5147 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5148 Mode.
5149
5150
5151Command line completion:
51528 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
51538 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5154 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51558 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5156 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051578 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5158 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051597 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5160 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005161- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5162- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5163 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051648 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5165 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51667 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5167 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5168- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5169 identifiers (Webb).
51708 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5171 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51727 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5173 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5174- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5175 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5176- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5177 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5178 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005179
5180
5181Command line history:
5182- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5183 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5184 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005185 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005186- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5187 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5188
5189
5190Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051919 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5192 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5193 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051948 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5195 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5196 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5197 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5198 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051998 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5200 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5201 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052027 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5203 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005204- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052057 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5206 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5207- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5208 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5209 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5210 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5211 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5212 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5213- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5214 Normal mode.
5215- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5216 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5217 are used.
5218- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5219- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5220- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5221
5222
5223'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052249 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5225 char * veryLongName =
5226 "very long string"
5227 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052288 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052298 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5230 long_type foo =
5231 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052328 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5233 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005234 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052358 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5236 func(
5237 new String[] {
5238 "asdf",
5239 "asdf"
5240 }
5241 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052428 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5243 (Chow Loong Jin)
5244 namespace {
5245 int
5246 func(int arg) {
5247 }
5248 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052496 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5250 func( arg1
5251 , arg2
5252 , arg3
5253 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000052547 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005255 func(
5256 int x) // indent like "(4"
5257 {
5258 if (a
5259 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052609 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5261 if (a)
5262 {
5263 if (b)
5264 {
5265 // {
5266 }
5267 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005268 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5269 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5270 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005271- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005272 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52737 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5274- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5275 line).
5276- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5277- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5278 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005279- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5280 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5281- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5282 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5283- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5284- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5285 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52868 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5287 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5288 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5289- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5290- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5291 lines start with "\item".
5292- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5293 /* here is a comment that
5294 is just autoindented, and
5295 nothing else */
5296- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52977 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5298 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5299 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005300 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005301
5302
5303Java:
53048 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5305 Odendahl?
53068 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5307 "[i" commands and friends.
5308- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5309 (Jason)
5310- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5311 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5312
5313
5314'comments':
53158 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5316 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5317 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5318 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005319 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5320 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053217 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5322 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
53237 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
53246 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5325 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5326 regexp is used.
53278 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5328 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5329
5330
5331Virtual edit:
53328 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053337 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5334
5335
5336Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053378 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053388 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053398 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005340 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020053418 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005342 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005343 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5344 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020053458 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053468 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5347 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053488 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5349 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5350 the end of the line or before a ".".
53517 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5352 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
53537 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5354 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053556 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53565 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5357 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5358 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5359 cursor is on.
5360
5361
5362Select mode:
53638 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5364 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53657 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005366 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053677 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5368 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5369 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5370 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5371 normal_cmd().
5372 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5373 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5374
5375
5376Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053778 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5378 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005379- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5380 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5381 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005382- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5383 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5384 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053858 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005386 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005387 where needed.
53887 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5389 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53907 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5391 of each selected line.
53928 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53938 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5394 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5395 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53968 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5397 Ben Godfrey)
53987 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5399 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
54007 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5401 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054027 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005403 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005404 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
54058 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5406 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
54077 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5408 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5409 option!
54107 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5411 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5412 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5413 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5414 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5415 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5416 without changing the column.
54176 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054187 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5419 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054206 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5421 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
54226 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054236 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005424 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005425 or other special character.
54266 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5427
5428
5429More advanced repeating commands:
5430- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005431- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005432- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005433 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5434 "y." will repeat last yank.
5435 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5436 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5437 and/or pick an older command.
5438- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5439
5440
5441Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054428 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5443 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5444 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
54458 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
54467 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5447 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054488 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5449 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
54508 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000054517 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054528 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5453 entering search strings.
54548 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5455 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5456 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054578 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5458 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054597 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054607 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5461 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054626 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5463 abbreviations are to be used.
5464- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5465 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5466 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005467- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5468 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5469 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5470 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5471 Or implicit:
5472 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005473- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5474 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5475 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005476- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5477 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5478- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5479 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54806 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5481 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5482 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5483 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005484- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5485 non-replace Insert mode?
5486- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005487- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5488- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5489 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5490- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005491 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005492- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5493 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5494- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5495- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5496 ":freekeys".
5497- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5498
5499
5500Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005501- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5502 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5503- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5504 folds when going to another line.
5505 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5506- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5507 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005508- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5509 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5510 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005511- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5512 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5513 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5514 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020055159 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5516 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005517
5518
5519Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055209 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000055218 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005522 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005523 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005524 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005525 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055269 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5527 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010055288 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5529 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000055308 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5531 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5532 Perl does it this way:
5533 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5534 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5535 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5536 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055378 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5538 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5539 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000055407 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5541 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000055428 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5543 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055447 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005545 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5546 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5547 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055487 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005549 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055507 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5551 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055528 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5553 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
55548 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5555 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055567 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005557 example.
55588 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5559 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5560- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5561 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5562 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5563 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055648 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5565 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5566 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55677 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5568 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055697 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5570 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055718 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5572 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055738 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5574 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055758 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5576 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5577 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5578 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005579- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5580 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005581- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5582 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5583- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5584 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5585 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5586 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055878 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5588 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005589- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5590 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055918 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5592 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5593 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005594- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5595 i ignore case
5596 I use case
5597 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5598 v use Vi regexp syntax
5599 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5600 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5601 Perl uses these too:
5602 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5603 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5604 o compile only once (Perl only)
5605 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5606 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5607 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5608 following command.
5609 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5610- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5611 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5612 for search string)?
56137 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5614 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5615- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5616 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5617- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5618 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5619- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5620- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005621 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005622 a for the next file in the argument list
5623 f for file in the buffer list
5624 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005625 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5626 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005627 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5628 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5629- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056307 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005631 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056327 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5633 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5634 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5635 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
56366 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5637 effects.
56387 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5639 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5640 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000056417 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005642 Also ":dselect".
5643
5644
5645Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056469 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5647 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5648 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056499 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5650 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020056518 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5652 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056538 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5654 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5655 timestamp?
5656 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5657 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005658- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5659 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005660- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5661 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5662 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56638 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5664 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5665 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5666 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56678 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5668 only remember the lines that really changed.
56697 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5670 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5671 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5672 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005673- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5674 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5675- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5676 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5677- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5678 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5679 [-99].
5680- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5681- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005682- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5683 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5684
5685
5686Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056877 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5688 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5689 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5690 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020056918 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005692 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56938 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5694 inode too.
56957 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005696 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5697 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056987 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5699 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5700- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5701 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5702- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5703 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
57047 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5705 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
57067 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5707 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
57088 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057097 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5710 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057118 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5712 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5713 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005714
5715
5716Swap (.swp) files:
57178 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5718 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5719 there are short file name problems.
57208 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5721 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
57228 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
57238 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005724 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005725 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5726 file the same as the actual file?
5727 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057287 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5729 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
57307 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005731 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005732 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5733 enough room.
57347 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5735 or /var/preserve.
5736- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5737 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5738- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005739 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005740- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5741 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5742 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5743 cached list of which line is where.
5744
5745
5746Viminfo:
57477 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5748 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5749 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000057508 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5751 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5752 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057538 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5754 name. (Schild)
57558 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57568 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057578 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057588 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5759 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5760 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5761 this?
57627 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57637 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5764 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57656 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5766 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5767 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5768- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5769 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5770
5771
5772Modelines:
57738 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5774 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5775 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005776- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5777 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5778 'shiftwidth'.
5779- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5780 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005781- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5782 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5783 modeline setting.
5784- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5785 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5786- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5787 .cpp files.
5788- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5789 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02005790- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005791 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5792
5793
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005794Sessions:
57958 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5796 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57977 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5798 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057998 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5800 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058018 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5802 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5803 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000058047 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5805 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000058067 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005807
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005808
5809Options:
58107 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5811 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058128 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5813 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5814 also be supported.
58158 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5816 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5817 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
58187 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005819
5820
5821External commands:
58228 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5823 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
58244 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5825 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5826 -f).
58274 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
58284 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5829 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
58304 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5831
5832
5833Multiple Windows:
58347 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
58358 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5836 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
58377 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5838 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5839 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000058407 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5841 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000058427 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5843 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058446 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5845 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005846 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005847 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
58487 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5849 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5850 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5851 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5852- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5853 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5854 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5855 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5856
5857
5858Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058598 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058608 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5861 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058628 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 +000058638 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5864 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58658 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5866 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5867 the mark was set.
58687 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5869 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5870 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5871 ":browse marks"?
58726 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058737 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5874 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58757 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5876 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58777 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5878 command).
58797 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5880 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5881 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5882 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58835 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5884 mappings.
58856 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5886 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5887 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5888
5889
5890Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058917 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005892 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005893- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5894 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058958 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058967 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5897 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5898
5899
5900Writing files:
5901- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5902 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5903 shortname conversion.
59048 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
59058 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5906 file.
59078 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5908 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5909 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059106 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5911 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
59126 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5913 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
59146 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5915 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059168 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005917 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
59187 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5919 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010059207 When editing a file, check that it has been changed outside of Vim more
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005921 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5922 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5923 waiting for a character to be typed).
59248 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5925 line of the window, like "[time]".
5926 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5927 Automatic and/or with a command.
5928
5929
5930Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000059318 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5932 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059338 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005934 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5935- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5936- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
59378 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5938 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005939- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005940 :s///N substitutes N times.
5941- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5942 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5943 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
59447 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5945 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5946 last line column 5.
59475 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5948 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5949 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5950 (Stanislav Sitar)
5951
5952
5953Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059548 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59557 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59568 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5957 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5958 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005959- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5960- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5961 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5962- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5963- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5964
5965
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005966Argument list:
59676 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5968 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5969 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59706 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5971
5972
5973Registers:
59748 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059758 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5976 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5977 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005978- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5979 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5980- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5981 leader when line wraps?
5982- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5983 line in the range.
5984- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5985 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59868 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5987 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005988
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005989
5990Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059918 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059928 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059937 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59947 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5995
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005996Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059977 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5998 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5999 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
6000 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
6001 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
6002 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
6003 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00006004 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000060057 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
6006 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000060077 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
6008 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060098 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
6010 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060117 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
6012 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
6013 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00006014- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00006015 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010060167 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
6017 window as a buffer-tab selection.
60188 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060197 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
6020 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
60218 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
6022 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060236 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060248 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6025 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6026 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6027 in this Vim.
60288 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006029 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060308 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6031 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6032 have it apply to the following command.
60338 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6034 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6035 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6036 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060377 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6038 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060397 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6040 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6041 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6042 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060436 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
60448 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
60459 Support ACLs on more systems.
60467 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6047 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060487 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6049 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6050 (truncated to fit in the space).
60517 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60528 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60538 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6054 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060557 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006056 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60577 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6058 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060597 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060607 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60617 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060628 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60638 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6064 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6065 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6066 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60678 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060688 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060698 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6070 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6071 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6072 does something like this. (Shah)
60737 Use growarray for replace stack.
60747 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6075 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60763 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060777 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6078 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060797 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6080 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006081- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6082- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6083- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6084- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60857 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6086 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6087- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6088 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006089- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006090- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6091 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6092- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6093 call "play newbeep.au").
6094- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6095 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6096 (Bhatt).
6097- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6098 blockwise registers).
6099- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6100 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6101- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6102 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6103 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6104 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006105- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061067 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6107 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6108- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6109 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6110 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6111 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6112 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000061138 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6114 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061158 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6116 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6117 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6118 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6119 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6120- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02006121- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061227 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6123 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6124- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6125 not in column 1.
61266 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6127 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
61287 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6129- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006130- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006131 :redir #> bufname
6132 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006133- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6134 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006135- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6136 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6137 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
61386 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6139 console? (Klaus Hast)
6140- Add :delcr command:
6141 *:delcr*
6142 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6143 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6144 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6145 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6146 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006147 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006148- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6149- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6150 characters from 'isprint'.
6151- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6152- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6153 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6154- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6155 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6156 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6157- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6158- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6159 Nvi).
6160- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6161 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61627 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6163- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6164 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61656 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6166- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6167 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6168 macro).
6169- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006170- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6171 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6172- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61738 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006174- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6175- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6176- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6177 if it is not the first or last window.
6178- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6179 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61807 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6181 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6182 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6183- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6184- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006185 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006186 many percent down the windows).
6187- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6188 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6189 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006190 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006191- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6192 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6193- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6194 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6195- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6196- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6197- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6198 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061998 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6200 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6201 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6202 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6203 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006204- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6205 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6206- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006207 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6208- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006209 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6210 (Webb).
6211- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006212 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006213- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6214 hex codes like 0xff).
6215- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6216 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6217 the last TYPED command.
6218- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6219- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6220- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6221 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006222- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062238 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6224 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6225 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006226- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006227 trailing '.'.
6228- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6229 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6230 find_file_in_path().
6231- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6232 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6233- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6234- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6235 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6236- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006237 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006238- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6239 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6240 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006241- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6242- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6243- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6244 to the minimal size.
6245- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6246- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6247- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6248- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6249- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006250- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6251 entered)?
6252- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6253 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006254- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006255- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6256- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6257- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6258- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6259- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6260 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006261- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062628 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6263 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6264 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6265 or in octal.
62667 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6267 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006268- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006269 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6270- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6271- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6272 insert line command).
6273- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6274- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6275- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6276- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6277- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6278 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006279- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006280 yet.
6281- Implement 'redraw' option.
6282- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6283 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062847 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6285 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006286 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6287 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062888 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6289 do it.
6290- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6291- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6292 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6293- Add text justification option.
6294- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6295- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6296 off".
6297- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6298- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6299- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006300 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006301- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006302- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006303- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6304 commands.
6305- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6306- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6307- :table command (Webb)
6308- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006309- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6310- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6311- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6312- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6313- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6314 (Demirel).
6315- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6316- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6317 for use in macro's and the like.
6318- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006319 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006320- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006321 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006322- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006323 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006324 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6325- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6326 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006327- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006328 mkopttab to make option table?
6329- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6330 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6331- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6332 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006333- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006334 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6335- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6336 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006337- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000063388 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6339 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6340 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6341 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6342 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063438 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6344 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6345 (Netherton)
63466 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6347 space after "(", for example.
63485 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6349 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6350 (Servatius Brandt)
6351
6352
6353From Elvis:
6354- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6355- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006356- Search patterns:
6357 \@ match word under cursor.
6358 but do:
6359 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6360 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63618 ":window" command:
6362 :win + next window (up)
6363 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6364 :win - previous window (down)
6365 :win -- idem, wrapping
6366 :win nr to window number "nr"
6367 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63687 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6369 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6370
6371
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006372From xvi:
6373- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6374- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6375
6376
6377From vile:
6378- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6379- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6380 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6381
6382
6383Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006384- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6385 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006386 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006387 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6388 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006389- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6390 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6391- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6392 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6393 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6394 current layout mirrored.
6395- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6396- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6397 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6398- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6399- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6400 font in each top-level window.
6401- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6402- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6403- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6404- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6405 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006406- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6407 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6408- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6409 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
64104 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6411 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6412 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6413 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006414 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006415 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6416 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6417- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6418 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6419 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6420
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006421vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006422vim: set fo+=n :