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Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2016 Jun 12
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020031Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +020037Further implement 'barline' in viminfo:
38- jumplist: merge with vi_jumplist.
39- Use timestamp for more items: locations, marks.
40- Docs: lines are copied by Vim since 7.4.1131
41- Check if debug history works.
42
43Problem with setqflist([]): grep 4 times, ":colder 3", setqflist([]) will
44clear the next list, not the current one. Ramel Eshed, Jun 8.
45
46Patch: Fix drawing background with &termguicolors #805 (Jacob Niehus)
47
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +010048+channel:
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +020049- GUI cursor blinking interrupted when the job output goes to a buffer that is
50 in a window. (Ramel Eshed, 2016 Jun 9)
51- GUI cursor blinking interrupted when there is a status line. (Ramel Eshed,
52 2016 Jun 9)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +010053- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
54 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +010055 minute. Option to set the droptime.
Bram Moolenaar82af8712016-06-04 20:20:29 +020056- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +010057- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +010058- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
59 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
60 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +010061- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
62 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
Bram Moolenaar328da0d2016-03-04 22:22:32 +010063Later
64- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal.
65 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +010066
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +020067Quickfix improvements for backgroupd building and grepping:
68- Move 'efm' parsing to a separate function. If 'efm' is the same as last
69 time re-use the fmt_first list.
70- Do not clear "dir_stack", "directory" and "file_stack", "currfile" when
71 using ":addexpr".
72 Move multiline, multiignore, multiscan outside of the function.
73- Add :cbottom, if quickfix window is visible scroll to make the last line
74 visible. Use scroll_cursor_bot(0, FALSE);
75- Add a flag/property/option to quickfix commands and functions to keep a file
76 name as a string and not create a buffer for it? To avoid creating lots of
77 buffers. (Ramel Eshed)
78
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010079Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +020080- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
81 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
82 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
83 LC_CTYPE
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +020084- The regexp engines are not reentrant, causing havoc when interrupted by a
85 remote expression or something else. Move global variables onto the stack
86 or into an allocated struct.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010087- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
88 matches everywhere.
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +010089- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
90 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +010091- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020092- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
93 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010094- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010095- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
96 2013 Dec 11)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010097- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin Szamotulski
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010098 Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +010099- Difference in NFA and old engine. (Brett Stahlman, 2014 Nov 5)
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +0100100- Bug when using \>. (Ramel, 2014 Feb 2) (Aaron Bohannon, 2014 Feb 13)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200101- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
102- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
103 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200104- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +0200105- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100106- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
107 2015 Feb 7)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200108- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
109 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
110 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
Bram Moolenaar979243b2015-06-26 19:35:49 +0200111 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
112 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100113- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
114- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100115- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100116- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
117 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
118 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
119 col and vcol when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +0100120- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
121 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200122- The pattern "\1" with the old engine gives E65, with the new engine it
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100123 matches the empty string. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Oct 2, Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100124- Search for \\~ causes error E874.
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200125- Search for /\%d0\+ causes error E363 in a file with consecutive NUL
126 characters. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jun 7)
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200127
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200128jsonencode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
129What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100130
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200131Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
132about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200133
Bram Moolenaar82af8712016-06-04 20:20:29 +0200134Cursor positioned in the wrong place when editing src/testdir/test_viml.vim.
135
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200136Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
137Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100138
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200139Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
140
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200141&t_ut not used with 'termguicolors' is set. (Jacob Niehus, 2016 May 14, #804)
142Patch to fix this, Jacob Niehus, 2016 May 14, #805)
143
144For current Windows build .pdb file is missing. (Gabriele Fava, 2016 May 11)
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001455)
146
Bram Moolenaar82af8712016-06-04 20:20:29 +0200147Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name.
148Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31.
149Or should we add a more general mechanism, like a lambda() function?
150Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Sep 16, update 2016 Apr 17.
151Correction for test, Ken Takata, 2016 May 27.
152
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200153Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
154
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200155":caddexpr" should keep state, so that directory changes can be respected.
156(Luc Hermitte, 2016 Jun 6)
157Don't clear dir_stack and file_stack when returning, do it on entry when not
158adding iterms. And keep them in qf_list_T.
159
Bram Moolenaar82af8712016-06-04 20:20:29 +0200160Patch to add filtering of the quickfix list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2016 Mar
16113, last version) Update May 22, #830.
162
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200163When 'autochdir' is set, writing new file does not change the current dir.
164(Dan Church, issue #777)
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200165Patch to fix this. (mister fish (Allen Haim), 2016 May 14, #803)
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200166
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200167ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
168Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200169
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200170Patch to load rgb.txt once. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Apr 29)
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100171
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200172Still problems with 'emoji'. See issue #721. Patch 7.4.1697 half-fixes it.
173Avoid PLAN_WRITE in windgoto() ?
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200174Should already never use utf-8 chars to position the cursor.
Bram Moolenaar681baaf2016-02-04 20:57:07 +0100175
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100176Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
177
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200178Patch to add TabNew, TabNewEntered and TabClosed autocommand events.
179(Felipe Morales, 2015 Feb 1)
180
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200181Patch on issue #728 by Christian Brabandt, 2016 Apr 7. Update with test: Apr 8.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200182Explanation Apr 12.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200183Might be related to:
184Test 44 fails when [[=A=]] is changed to [[=À=]]. Caused by getcmdline() not
185handling the 0x80 as a second byte correctly? (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jun 10)
186
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100187Patch to add 'topbot' to 'belloff' option. (Coot, 2016 Mar 18, #695)
188
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200189Patch for C syntax HL. (Bradley Garagan, 2016 Apr 17) #763
190
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100191Patch to make matchit work better, respect 'matchpairs'. (Ken Takata, 2016 Mar
19225)
193
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200194Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
195
196Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
197
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200198Patch for restoring wide characters in the console buffer.
199(Ken Takata, 2016 Jun 7)
200
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +0100201We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
202the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
203
Bram Moolenaar681baaf2016-02-04 20:57:07 +0100204Patch for Python: #622. (Roland Puntaier, 2016 Feb 2)
205What does it change?
206
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100207It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
208Reject the value? #710.
209
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200210Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
2112013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12.
212Update mentioned by Christian, 2016 Apr 25.
213Update from Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 26.
214
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100215Win32: patch to use 64 bit stat() if possible. (Ken Takata, 2014 May 12)
216More tests May 14. Update May 29. Update Aug 10.
217Now part of large file patches. (Ken Takata, 2016 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +0200218Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
219pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
220Patches from Ken Takata might help (2014 Apr 17)
221Update 2016 Mar 28. Can include all parts into one dist patch.
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100222
223Patch to support 64 bit ints for Number. (Ken Takata, 2016 Jan 21)
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200224Update 2016 Apr 24.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200225
Bram Moolenaar82af8712016-06-04 20:20:29 +0200226Patch to improve cscope. (Adrian Kocis, #843)
227
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200228Patch for groovy multi-line comment highlighting. (Justin M. Keyes, 2016 May
22920 #644)
230
231When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
232Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
233
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200234Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200235Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858
236
237Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200238
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200239Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
240No test, needs some work to include.
241>
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200242Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
243(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100244
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +0100245After 7.5 is released:
246- Drop support for older MS-Windows systems, before XP.
247 Patch from Ken Takata, 2016 Mar 8.
248
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100249Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
250https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
251Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
252
Bram Moolenaar328da0d2016-03-04 22:22:32 +0100253Patch to add setbufline(). (email from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, patch by Ozaki
254Kiichi, 2016 Feb 28)
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +0100255Update Mar 8: https://gist.github.com/mattn/23c1f50999084992ca98
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100256Update Mar 13: https://gist.github.com/mattn/23c1f50999084992ca98
Bram Moolenaar328da0d2016-03-04 22:22:32 +0100257
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100258Need to try out instructions in INSSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
259interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
260Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
261interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
262result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200263
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100264Duplication of completion suggestions for ":!hom". Issue 539.
265Patch by Christian, 2016 Jan 29
266>
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200267Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100268work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200269
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100270Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
271
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200272Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
273
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200274When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
275Apr 17) #762
276
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100277Should jsonencode()/jsondecode() restrict recursiveness?
278Or avoid recursiveness.
279
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100280Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
281'iskeyword' for syntax.
282
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100283Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
284(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
285
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100286Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
287
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100288Patch to change GUI behavior: instead of changing the window size change the
289lines/columns when menu/toolbar/etc. is added/removed. (Ychin, 2016 Mar 20,
290#703)
291
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100292Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
293It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
294Add configure check?
295Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
296Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
297Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
298
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200299Patch to add getbufinfo(), gettabinfo() and getwininfo(). (Yegappan
300Lakshmanan, 2016 Apr 2016) Update Jun 8.
301
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100302Access to uninitialized memory in match_backref() regexp_nda.c:4882
303(Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 6)
304
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100305":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
306directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
307
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02003087 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
309 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
310 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
311 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200312Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jun 10, #859
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200313
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200314If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
3152016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200316
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100317Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
318(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
319
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100320Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200321Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100322
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100323Add value "smart" to 'tagcase': ignore case when tag is all lower case.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200324Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2016 Mar 30, #712.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100325
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100326Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
327Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
328
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200329When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
330restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
331Do not trigger the event?
332
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200333Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
334changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
335and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100336Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
337Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
3386, 2nd message)
339Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100340
Bram Moolenaar681baaf2016-02-04 20:57:07 +0100341Patch to fix that executable() may fail on very long filename in MS-Windows.
342(Ken Takata, 2016 Feb 1)
343
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100344Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
345Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
346https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
347
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100348Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
349With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
350
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200351Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100352
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +0100353Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
354
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +0100355Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100356Only remembers one error.
357
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200358Illegal memory access, requires ASAN to see. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jul 28)
359
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200360Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
361
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200362Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
363(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200364
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +0100365Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
366github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100367 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100368Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100369
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100370When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
371triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
372set_color_count().
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100373
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200374Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200375
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +0100376Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100377comparing individual items.
378Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
379Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
380Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
381equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
382
Bram Moolenaard042dc82015-11-24 19:18:36 +0100383Plugin to use Vim in MANPAGER. Konfekt, PR #491
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100384
385Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
386
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100387MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
388wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
389
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100390Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
391specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
392
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100393Half-finished patch to fix the Problem using cgn to change a search hit when
394replacement includes hit. Reported by John Beckett, fix by Christian Brabandt,
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01003952016 Jan 11.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100396
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +0100397Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
398(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
399
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200400Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200401inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200402
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100403Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
404'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster?
405
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100406Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
407(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
408
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100409Need a Vim equivalent of Python's None and a way to test for it.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100410Use v:none. var == v:none
411
412Patch to add arguments to argc() and argv(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2016 Jan
41324) Also need a way to get the global arg list? Update later on Jan 24
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200414Update Mar 5. Update Apr 7. Update Jun 5.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100415
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100416To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
417library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
418
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100419When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
420is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
421
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100422Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
42330)
424
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +0200425MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
426(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
427
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100428Using an external diff is inefficient. Not all systems have a good diff
429program available (esp. MS-Windows). Would be nice to have in internal diff
430implementation. Can then also use this for displaying changes within a line.
431Olaf Dabrunz is working on this.
432
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200433The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
43424): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100435
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200436":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
437effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
438
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200439":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
4409)
441
442The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
443wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
444
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200445Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200446Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200447
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100448When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
449the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
450
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200451Patch for problem with restoring screen on Windows. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, 2015
452Sep 10)
453
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100454Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
455Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
456Problem mentioned by Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 4.
457
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200458Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200459slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
460inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
461
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200462ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
4632014 Sep 11)
464
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200465Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
466(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
467
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200468When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
469'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
470
471Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200472(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100473Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
474- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
475 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
476 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
477- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
478 covered by the above change.
479So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +0100480same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200481Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200482
483Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
484Work in progress.
485
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100486Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
487when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
488
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200489Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
490Is this right?
491
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +0200492Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
493(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
494Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
495
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200496Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
497Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100498
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +0200499Patch to fix that wide characters do not work properly after exiting.
500(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 May 24) Better patch to come.
501
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100502Patch to add wordcount(). Same info as g CTRL-G. (Christian Brabandt, 2015
503Nov 17)
504
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +0200505Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
506Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
507
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200508Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
509
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100510Cannot execute the shell when it's in a directory with a space.
511Issue #459.
512
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +0100513When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
514filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
515initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
516
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100517Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
518
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200519Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
520OK to not block marks?
521
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100522Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
523
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100524Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering.
525(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe)
Bram Moolenaard042dc82015-11-24 19:18:36 +0100526Now on Git: https://gist.github.com/nocd5/165286495c782b815b94
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100527Update 2016 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100528
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100529Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
530
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100531When 'balloonexpr' returns a list the result has a trailing newline.
532Just remove one trailing newline. (lcd, 2014 Oct 17)
533
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200534When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
535(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
536
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200537Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200538
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100539Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
540(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
541
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200542When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
543any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
544
545Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +0200546
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100547Patch to add the EndOfBuffer highlight group, used instead of NonText for "~"
548lines. (Marco Hinz, 2014 Nov 2)
549
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100550Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100551
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100552Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny,
5532015 Feb 6.
554
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100555Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
556Is this a good solution?
557
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100558Patch to add /pattern/ to :oldfiles. Pull #575.
559
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200560Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist()
561functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21)
562Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14)
563Second one. Update May 22.
564Update by Daniel Hahler, 2014 Jul 4, Aug 14, Oct 14, Oct 15.
565
566Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
567(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
568
569Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
570
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100571Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
572Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
573was already defined.
574(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
575
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200576Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
577
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200578Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100579Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100580Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100581Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jan 4.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100582
583Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200584
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200585Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
586(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
587
588Delete old code in os_msdos.c, mch_FullName().
589
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100590Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
591(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
592
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200593Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200594Update 2016 Jun 10, # 857
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +0200595
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100596Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
597change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
598them: ":repeats".
599
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100600Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
601
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +0100602When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
603these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
604window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
605
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100606Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
607should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
608history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
609Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
610
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200611"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
612Jun 8)
613
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100614Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
615insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
616
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200617Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
618
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100619No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
620
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200621Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
622(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
623Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
624arguments.
625
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100626Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
627
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200628Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100629
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200630Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
6310x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
632New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
633compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
634
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100635Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100636Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Has a problem (email 2015 Jan 7).
637Update 2015 Jan 10.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100638Also see issue #609.
639We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100640
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200641Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
642right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200643its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200644
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100645Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
646What for systems that don't have unsetenv()?
647
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100648Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
649
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100650This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
651 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
652This neither: (ZyX)
653 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
654
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200655'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
656Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
657from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100658
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200659Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
6602014 Jun 8)
661
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100662Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100663Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100664Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
665Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
666User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100667- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
668 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
669 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100670- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
671- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
672 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
673 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
674 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
675 on vim.org.
676- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
677 there. Can manually update when really needed.
678- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
679- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
680- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
681- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
682Implementation:
683- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
684 plugin separate.
685- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
686 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
687 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
688- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
689 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
690- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
691 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
692 installing.
693Out of scope:
694- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
695- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
696 useful).
697
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200698Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
699normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100700
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200701CTRL-] in Visual mode uses the selected text as a tag. This does not work
702when preceded with CTRL-W. (Patrick Hemmer, 2014 Jun 28)
703
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200704When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
705menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
706
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200707Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
708(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
709
710":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
711various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100712
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +0200713Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200714(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
715
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200716VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
717instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
718
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100719Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200720Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100721
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200722Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200723command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100724
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100725Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
726
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100727Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
728highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100729
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200730The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
731For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
732
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100733Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +0200734possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100735
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100736Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +0100737It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100738
739Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200740
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200741Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
742
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100743Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
744
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200745With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa,
7462013 Sep 5)
747
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100748Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100749Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100750
751Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
7523. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
753
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200754/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
755
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01007567 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
757 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
758 "lucida_console:h8").
759Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
760
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200761:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
762
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200763Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100764names.
765(ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28; Update 2013 Dec 15, 2014 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100766Also fixes Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200767
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200768Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200769With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200770
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100771Patch to fix that on suckless Terminal mousewheel up does not work.
772(Ralph Eastwood, 2013 Nov 25)
773
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200774Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
775
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200776Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
777
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100778When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
779(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
780
781Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
782Dec 13.
783
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100784Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
785buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
786
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200787GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
788(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
789
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100790Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
791registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
792
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200793Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
794
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200795The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
796(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
797Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
798
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200799The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
800- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
801- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
802
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100803Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
804Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
805reliably?
806
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200807Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
808That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
809Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
81017)
811Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200812Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200813
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100814Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
815(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
816
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100817Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
818(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
819
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02008208 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
821 defined.
822Issue 28.
823
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200824Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
8252013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100826
827Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
828
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200829Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
8305)
831
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200832Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
833carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
834
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200835Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
836highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
837
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +0100838Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200839
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200840Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +0200841May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
842May 19: with local variables.
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200843May 28: with options
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200844
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200845Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020084628) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200847
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200848Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
849optional. (2013 Jul 12)
850
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200851Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
852
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100853Improve the installer for MS-Windows. There are a few alternatives:
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200854- Add silent install option. (Shane Lee, #751)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100855- Installer from Cream (Steve Hall).
856- Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen)
857 https://github.com/gpwen/vim-installer-mui2
858- make it possible to do a silent install, see
859 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
860 Version from Guopeng Wen does this.
861- MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
862- The one on Issue 279.
863Problem: they all work slightly different (e.g. don't install vimrun.exe).
864How to test that it works well for all Vim users?
865
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100866Patch to check whether a buffer is quickfix or a location list.
867(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Dec 9)
868
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100869Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
870
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100871Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100872
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200873- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
874 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
875Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200876
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200877Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200878
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200879In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
880process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
881a reboot.
882
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100883Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100884Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
885Ben Fritz: problem with 'selection' set to "exclusive".
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100886Updated to current Vim, not quite right yet. (Ben Fritz, 2014 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100887
888Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the
889cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20)
890
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100891patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
892
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100893Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183.
894I can't reproduce it.
895
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100896Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
897not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100898
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200899Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
900Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
901
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200902Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
903Or use expand('<sid>')?
904
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100905Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
906
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100907Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100908
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200909Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no
910signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22.
911
912Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
913
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100914Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
915
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100916b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
9177)
918
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +0200919Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
920compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
921
922Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
923Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
924vim.bindeval().
925
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200926Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
9272012 Aug 4)
928
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100929Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
930(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
931
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100932Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
933But use Gnome instead of GTK?
934
935Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
936Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
937Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200938
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200939Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
940loading all files.
941
942Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
943line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
944after starting up?
945
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +02009468 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
947 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
948
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200949MS-Windows resizing problems:
950- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
951 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
952- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
953 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
954 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100955
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200956'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200957
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200958Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200959of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
960
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200961Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
962
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100963Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200964Also question if examples are correct.
965
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200966The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
967Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
968But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200969
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200970Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
971Aug 16)
972
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100973When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
974is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
975
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +0200976xterm supports escape sequences to mark a paste operation. Need to be
977enabled. (Bruno Sutic, 2014 Jul 11) How to know the terminal supports this?
978
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100979URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100980- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100981- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
982 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
983
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200984Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
985(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
986Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
987
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200988Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +0200989New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200990
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100991When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
992for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
993Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100994
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200995Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
996
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200997Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
99824)
999
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001000Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1001
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001002Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1003
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001004Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1005Apr 18)
1006
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001007Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1008And one for gui_x11.txt.
1009
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001010":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1011finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1012Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1013
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001014Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1015
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001016Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1017
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001018Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1019they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1020
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001021Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1022
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001023Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1024Nov 20)
1025
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001026Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001027Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001028
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001029`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001030(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1031
1032Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1033
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001034BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1035Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1036
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001037Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1038Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1039
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001040Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1041
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001042Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
1043
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001044On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
10452012 Jun 19)
1046
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001047'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1048'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1049Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001050Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001051
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001052With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1053(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1054need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1055
1056Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1057only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
105821, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1059
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001060The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1061support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1062
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001063'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1064highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1065
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001066Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1067New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1068
1069Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1070Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1071
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001072Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1073Jan 19)
1074
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001075Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1076discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1077meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001078
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001079"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001080Oct 26)
1081
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001082Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1083
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001084With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1085register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001086
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001087Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1088
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001089When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1090(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1091
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001092Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
1093Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
1094
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001095Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
1096doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
1097Jun 17)
1098
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001099When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1100then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1101from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1102
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001103Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1104":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
110515)
1106
1107Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1108
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001109BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1110cleared. See test64.
1111
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001112Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
1113
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001114Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001115effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001116Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
1117
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001118On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
111964 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1120right type.
1121
1122string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1123(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1124
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001125Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
1126
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001127When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1128(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001129When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1130following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1131(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001132
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001133When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1134doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1135
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001136Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1137
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020011387 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
1139Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
1140
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001141maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1142mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1143
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001144Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1145(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1146
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001147When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1148indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1149the help file.
1150
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001151After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1152Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1153
1154Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1155
1156"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1157
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001158Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
1159May 24) Update May 26.
1160
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001161Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1162
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001163Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001164
1165Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
11662010 Dec 18)
1167
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001168With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1169number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1170Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1171
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001172Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1173Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1174
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020011758 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1176Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1177
11788 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
1179 after typing something.
1180Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
1181function that resets did_cursorhold.
1182Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
1183
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001184Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1185one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1186the match scrolls into view.
1187
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020011887 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1189Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1190Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1191
11929 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1193 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1194Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1195
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001196Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1197Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1198
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001199In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1200or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1201sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1202
1203GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1204doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1205
1206GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1207
1208Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1209Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1210
1211Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1212
12137.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1214there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1215do?
1216
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001217Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
121822)
1219
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001220New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1221- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001222- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001223 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1224
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001225"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
12262011 Feb 27)
1227
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001228Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1229^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1230
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001231'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
1232way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
1233
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001234When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1235exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
12369) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1237
1238g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1239the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1240
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001241Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1242crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1243
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001244Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
1245number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
1246
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001247Regexp engine performance:
1248- Profiling:
1249 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1250 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1251 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1252 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1253 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1254 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1255- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1256- Performance tests:
1257 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1258 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1259 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1260 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1261 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1262 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1263 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1264 'hlsearch'.
1265 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1266 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1267 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1268 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1269
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001270Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1271names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1272Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1273the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1274
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001275Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1276Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1277
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001278'beval' option should be global-local.
1279
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001280Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001281
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001282setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001283
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +020012847 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
1285 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
1286 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
1287
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001288With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
12892010 Oct 24)
1290
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001291Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
1292Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
1293
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001294Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1295
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001296When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1297Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1298
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001299":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1300
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001301'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1302
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001303C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1304checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1305Issue 46.
1306
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001307Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1308
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001309Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1310gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1311
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001312":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1313accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1314
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001315Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1316setwinvar().
1317
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001318Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1319
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001320When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
1321(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
1322
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001323When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1324instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1325
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001326Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1327Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1328Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001329
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001330Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1331back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1332
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001333Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001334Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1335
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001336CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1337the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1338FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1339
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001340Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1341Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1342
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001343Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1344Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1345
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001346I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1347Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1348an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001349
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001350Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1351
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001352Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1353non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001354
1355iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1356Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1357or replace with a character and continue?
1358
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001359Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1360Requires configure check for localtime().
1361Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1362
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001363Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1364Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1365
1366Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1367
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001368Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1369Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1370path.
1371
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001372Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001373Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001374
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001375'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1376
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001377":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1378like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1379
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001380Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1381https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001382
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001383Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
13842010 Nov 5)
1385
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001386Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
1387Jan 7)
1388
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001389Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1390Only with "vim -u NONE".
1391
1392Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1393
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001394With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1395entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1396Feb 12)
1397
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001398Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1399characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1400
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001401Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1402
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001403Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1404 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1405
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001406Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1407
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001408When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1409Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1410
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001411When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1412not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1413string value.
1414
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001415Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
1416
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001417For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001418line argument -noregister.
1419
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001420When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1421missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1422
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001423When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1424doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001425
1426Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1427(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1428Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1429There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1430Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1431
1432":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1433highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1434to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1435
1436Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1437Probably needs a bit of work.
1438
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001439Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1440Added test, updates, June 23.
1441Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1442With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1443Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1444
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001445List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001446Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1447
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001448Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1449
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001450Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1451
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001452Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1453Sep 1)
1454
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001455Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1456
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001457Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1458on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1459
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001460Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
14612009 Jul 18)
1462
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001463Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1464window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1465Needs more work.
1466
1467Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1468
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001469When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1470few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1471
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001472'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001473(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1474
1475Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1476J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1477
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001478When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1479for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1480
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001481Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1482
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001483Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1484
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001485When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
1486
1487":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1488because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1489ex_docmd.c.
1490
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001491Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001492Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1493
1494string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1495for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1496
1497Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1498
1499'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
150020)
1501
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001502Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
15032009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1504
1505Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1506
1507Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1508SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1509
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001510When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1511indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1512(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1513
1514Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1515are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1516Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1517Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1518that doesn't have a window.
1519
1520When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1521doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1522
1523getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1524displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1525
1526":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1527
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001528There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1529was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1530perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1531
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001532Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1533
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001534Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
1535file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
1536system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
1537
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001538Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1539command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1540
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001541Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1542does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1543
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001544opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1545height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001546very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001547
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001548Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1549(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1550
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001551Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001552(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1553
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001554Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1555char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1556
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001557Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1558Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1559
1560This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
1561
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001562A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001563
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001564Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1565messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1566es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
15672009 Jan 26)
1568
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001569When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001570in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1571Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1572
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001573Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1574a modeline.
1575
1576Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1577Sergey Khorev)
1578
1579Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1580part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001581
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001582netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
1583number to be below last visible line.
1584
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001585After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1586correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1587
1588Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1589(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1590
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001591shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001592'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1593Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1594unix-like shell?
1595
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001596Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1597register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1598(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1599
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001600Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1601Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1602
1603Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1604make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1605
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001606When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1607still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1608
1609"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1610(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1611
1612Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1613
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001614Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1615that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1616ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1617Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1618
1619Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001620Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001621
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001622MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1623doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1624probably causes this.
1625
1626'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020016272009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001628
1629Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1630 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1631 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1632(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1633
1634Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1635":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1636option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1637is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001638
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001639":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1640first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001641Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001642
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001643Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1644laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1645Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001646
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001647Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1648anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1649
1650On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1651doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1652Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1653Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1654
1655":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
1656
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001657When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1658'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1659fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1660the buffer to be unmodified.
1661Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1662another look at it.
1663
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001664c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1665(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1666
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001667You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1668error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1669Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1670at the other match for 0xBF.
1671
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001672When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1673argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1674
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001675Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1676backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1677
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001678When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1679line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1680
1681Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1682position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1683
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001684After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1685(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001686command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001687
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001688":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1689Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1690
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001691Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
1692Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
1693
1694When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1695either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1696put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1697
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001698Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1699Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1700Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1701Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1702(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1703
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001704Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1705
1706ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001707
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001708Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1709(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1710escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1711an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001712This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1713July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001714Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1715work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1716
1717When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
171831)
1719
1720Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1721work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1722Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001723
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001724Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
1725multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
1726(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
1727
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001728Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
17292008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001730Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001731
1732Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1733Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1734'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1735
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001736Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1737Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1738
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001739Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1740Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1741
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020017428 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1743 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1744 several).
1745 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1746 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1747 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1748Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1749
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001750Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
1751
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001752The utf class table is missing some entries:
1753 0x2212, minus sign
1754 0x2217, star
1755 0x2500, bar
1756 0x26ab, circle
1757
1758Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1759line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1760
1761GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1762Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1763
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001764Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1765try the Cocoa version.
1766
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001767Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1768changed or the window is resized.
1769
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001770GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1771the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1772
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001773Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1774Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001775
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001776Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
17771) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1778
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001779C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1780with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1781Try to reproduce at work.
1782
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001783Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1784Is there a way to list all the files first?
1785
1786When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1787result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
178816)
1789
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001790Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1791(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1792
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001793Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1794Await response to question to make the register writable.
1795
1796Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
17971)
1798
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001799In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1800each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1801
1802try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1803
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001804try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1805
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001806":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1807Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1808
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001809Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1810
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001811Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1812Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1813
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001814Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1815Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1816Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001817
1818C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1819(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1820
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001821When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1822and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1823
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001824Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1825 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1826
1827New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1828
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001829":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1830a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1831
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001832'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1833Likonen, March 19)
1834
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001835Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1836other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1837
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001838The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1839appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1840matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1841
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001842When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1843character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1844'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1845(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1846
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001847Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1848Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001849
1850More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1851
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001852Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1853http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1854
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001855Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1856back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1857Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001858
1859Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1860No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1861
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001862Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1863terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001864
1865Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1866
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001867Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1868but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1869that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001870
1871When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1872
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001873Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1874Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1875
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001876Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1877popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1878size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1879This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1880
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001881Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1882a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1883isn't right?
1884
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001885When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1886it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1887
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001888Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1889then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1890files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001891Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1892indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1893":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001894in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
1895quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001896Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001897
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001898When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1899parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1900neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1901particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1902Jun 3)
1903However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1904the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001905
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001906A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1907Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1908
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001909Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1910Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1911
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001912Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1913switch list is noticed:
1914 switch (i)
1915 {
1916 case 1:
1917 foobar:
1918 }
1919
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001920Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1921
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001922Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1923with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1924go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1925moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1926
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001927Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
192864-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1929
1930Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1931Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1932Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1933argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1934(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1935
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001936Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1937(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1938
1939Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1940makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1941.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1942 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1943
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001944Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
19452007 Feb 8)
1946
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001947Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1948set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001949
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001950Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1951
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001952Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1953Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1954New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1955patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1956
1957Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1958Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1959
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001960Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1961
1962Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
19632007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001964Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001965
1966Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001967label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1968
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001969Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1970with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1971Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001972
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001973Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1974
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001975Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1976Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1977only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1978
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001979Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1980Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001981Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001982properly?
1983
1984Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
19852007 Jun 21)
1986
1987When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1988Jun 18)
1989
1990If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1991
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001992Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1993windows. (Adam George)
1994
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001995F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1996modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1997K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001998
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001999UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
2000to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
2001
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002002In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2003the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2004
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002005C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2006
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002007":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2008
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002009When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002010error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002011
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002012Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
2013use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2014
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002015Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2016if_ruby.c.
2017
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002018":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2019
2020The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2021it in keep_msg?
2022
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002023Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002024error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002025name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2026
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002027Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2028longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002029
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002030Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2031Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2032Also for ":w" without a file name.
2033The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002034
2035"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2036Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2037
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002038VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2039directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2040(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2041
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002042VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2043
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002044input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2045name?
2046
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002047Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2048
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002049When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2050(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2051Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2052will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2053
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002054gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2055This also fails with --remote.
2056
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002057When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
20582008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2059all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2060
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002061aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2062
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002063When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2064(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2065
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002066Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2067the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2068
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002069GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2070
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002071Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2072superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2073
2074Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2075character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2076
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002077Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2078Jun 5)
2079
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002080Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
20812008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2082Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2083
2084In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2085but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2086Jul 22)
2087
2088There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2089
2090Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2091":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2092somehow? Or use a new function.
2093
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002094Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2095
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002096Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2097moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2098that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2099
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002100The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2101
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002102When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002103cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2104the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2105
2106Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
2107has been created.
2108
2109Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
2110shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
2111fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
2112background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
2113A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002114
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002115These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2116 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2117 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2118 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2119
2120Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2121partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2122
2123In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2124buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2125reload it then?
2126
2127New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
2128previous version.
2129
2130For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2131
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002132Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2133only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2134
2135Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2136tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2137doesn't contain other directories.
2138
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002139Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2140Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2141
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002142Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2143 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2144 set background=dark
2145This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2146color is, not reset it.
2147
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002148Linux distributions:
2149- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2150 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2151 xfree-xterm".
2152- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2153
2154Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2155start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2156show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2157middle?
2158
2159When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002160(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002161connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
2162dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
2163
2164Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2165
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002166When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2167current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2168the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2169
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002170When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2171Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2172
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002173Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2174 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2175 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2176 - getting colors in xterm
2177 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2178
2179Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2180Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2181
2182Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2183
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002184A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2185Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2186
2187Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2188Dara, 2006 June 21)
2189
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002190Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2191number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2192
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002193After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2194the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2195
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002196Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002197
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002198Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
2199copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
2200error and stop using the connection to the server.
2201
2202Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2203Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2204
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002205Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010022062008 Sep 29)
2207
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002208In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2209check the result of has("patch13").
2210
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002211Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2212restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2213
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002214Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2215and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2216
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002217Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2218put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2219
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002220Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2221resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2222
2223In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2224can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2225
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002226GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2227maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2228doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002229Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2230visible.
2231
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002232When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2233differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002234
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002235The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2236be only one.
2237
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002238"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
2239script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
2240
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002241It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
2242the function name before resolving it to a number?
2243 let d = {}
2244 fun! d.foo()
2245 echo "here"
2246 endfun
2247 call d.foo(9)
2248
2249Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
2250only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002251Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
2252used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
2253
2254Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
2255output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
2256Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
2257
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002258Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002259"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2260name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2261Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002262
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002263printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
2264perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
2265
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002266Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2267(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2268
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002269Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2270as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2271
2272Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2273Jan 1)
2274
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002275Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
227623)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002277
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002278":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2279tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2280Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002281
2282xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
2283buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
2284Xterm 224 supports it!
2285
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002286When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2287text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2288latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2289
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002290Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
2291
2292Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2293no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2294
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002295In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2296VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
22972007 Oct 16)
2298
2299TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2300Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2301
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002302Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002303
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002304When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2305typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2306Sep 3, 11)
2307
2308When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2309respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2310the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2311what happens for the GUI.
2312
2313X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
2314pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
2315clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
2316Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
2317Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
2318clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
2319
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002320":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2321this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2322
2323When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2324Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2325restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2326
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002327Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
23282010 Jun 30)
2329
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002330Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2331'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2332(Kartik Agaram)
2333
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002334
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002335Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002336- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2337 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2338- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2339 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2340 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2341- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2342 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2343 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002344- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2345- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002346
2347
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002348More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002349- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2350 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002351- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
2352- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
2353 21)
2354- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2355 patch May 10)
2356- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2357 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2358- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2359 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2360- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2361- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2362- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2363 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2364 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002365- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002366- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2367 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2368- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2369 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2370- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2371 21)
2372- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2373 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2374- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2375 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002376- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2377 Sep 13)
2378- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02002379 Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24, 2014 Oct 10)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002380- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2381 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2382 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2383 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2384 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002385- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002386
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002387Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000023889 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2389 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2390 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2391 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2392 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2393 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2394 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2395 (Alan Schmitt)
2396 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002397 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2398 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000023999 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002400 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000024018 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024028 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00002403 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024047 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2405 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2406 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024078 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002408 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020024097 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002410 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2411- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2412 for multi-byte characters.
2413- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2414- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2415 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2416 been given values.
2417 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
24188 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002419 with an ESC sequence.
2420 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2421 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2422 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024237 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2424 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2425- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2426 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2427 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
24288 Add functions:
2429 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2430 Update 2004 Sep 10
2431 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2432 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002433 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002434 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2435 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2436 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2437 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2438 (2003 May 13)
2439 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2440 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002441 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2442 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002443 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2444 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2445 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024467 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2447 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2448- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2449 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
24507 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2451 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000024528 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2453 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024547 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
24558 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2456 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
24577 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2458 Kotchan has a patch for it)
24598 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
2460 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
2461 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
24627 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2463- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2464 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2465 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002466- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2467 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2468- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2469
2470
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002471Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002472- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2473 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024748 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2475 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2476 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2477 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2478 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2479 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024808 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2481 make Vim exit.
24827 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2483 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2484 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
24858 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2486 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2487 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
24886 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2489 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2490 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
24918 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2492 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2493 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2494 names in one buffer???
2495 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2496 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2497 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
24987 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2499 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2500 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002501 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2502 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025037 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2504 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
25057 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
25067 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
25077 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
2508 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
25097 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2510 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2511 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2512 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
25137 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
25147 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
25157 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2516 to the match with the tag? Option?
25177 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
25187 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2519 (Sayre).
25207 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2521 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025227 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2523 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2524 match. Nvi can do it too.
25257 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2526 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2527 line 1\ line 2\\
2528 line 2\ line 3\\
2529 . line4/
25306 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2531 the way the shell is started?
25326 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2533 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2534
2535
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002536GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000025379 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025388 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2539 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2540 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000025418 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2542 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2543 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025449 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2545 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2546 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2547 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002548- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2549 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2550 blocked for now.
2551
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002552
2553Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002554- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2555 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025568 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
2557 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
25588 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2559 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2560 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
25618 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2562 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025636 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2564 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000025658 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2566 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2567 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025687 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2569 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2570 to use an opaque background in most places?
25718 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
2572 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
2573 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025747 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2575 2004 May 9)
25768 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2577 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2578 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2579 MS-Windows 98?
2580 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2581 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2582 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2583 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025848 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2585 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2586 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2587 doesn't work properly.
25888 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2589 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2590 appears in the right position. (Webb)
25919 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2592 button doesn't give popup menu.
2593 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2594 selection.
2595 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2596 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2597 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
25988 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2599 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2600 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2601 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
26028 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2603 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2604 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026057 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2606 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2607 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
26087 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2609 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002610 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026117 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2612 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026136 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
26148 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2615 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2616 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
26178 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2618 know which keyboard is being used?
26197 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2620 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2621 area (Koloseike).
26228 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2623 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2624 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2625 the font name).
2626
2627
2628Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000026296 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2630 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2631 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2632 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2633 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026349 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2635 required and it's missing?
26368 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2637 wrong.
26389 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2639 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000026409 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002641 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2642 flag.
26438 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2644 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2645 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
26468 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
26476 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2648 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2649 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2650 the tooltips work though...
26517 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2652 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
26538 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2654 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2655 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2656
2657
2658Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010026599 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2660 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026619 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2662 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2663 through files.
26647 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2665 read long file names. (Schroeder)
26664 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2667 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2668 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2669 problem during a refresh.
26705 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2671 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2672 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2673 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2674 colors as it should.
2675 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2676 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2677
2678
2679Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002680- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026817 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2682 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026838 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2684 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2685 (Phillipps)
2686
2687
2688GUI:
26899 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2690 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
26919 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002692 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002693 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
26949 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2695 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
26968 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2697 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
26988 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2699 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2700 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
27018 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2702 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2703 of where it is processing the output.
2704 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
27058 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2706 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010027078 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000027088 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2709 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2710 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020027118 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027128 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2713 browse().
27148 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2715 use that code? Or use console dialog.
27168 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2717 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000027187 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2719 - regexp on/off
2720 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2721 when all buffers/directory is used:
2722 - filter for file name
2723 when directory is used:
2724 - subdirectory on/off
2725 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027268 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2727 to avoid problems.
27288 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2729 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2730 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
27318 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2732 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2733 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
27348 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2735 up. Set erase character somehow?
27368 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2737 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2738 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2739 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
27408 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
27417 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2742 visible.
27437 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2744 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
27457 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2746 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
27478 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2748 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
27498 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2750 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2751 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2752 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2753- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
27544 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2755 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2756 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2757
2758
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01002759Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000027608 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2761 a good fallback, thus use:
2762 $HOME
2763 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2764 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2765 $USERPROFILE
2766 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2767 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2768 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2769 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027708 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2771 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
27728 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2773 Should work like in the GUI version.
27748 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2775 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
27768 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2777 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
27788 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2779 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2780 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027818 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2782 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2783 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2784
2785
2786Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020027878 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002788 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2789 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
27908 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2791 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2792
2793
2794Win32 console:
27959 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2796 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2797 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2798 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2799 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2800 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2801 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2802 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2803 and the file is not saved.
2804 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2805 long name.
28068 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2807 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
28087 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2809 besides the console.
28108 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
28119 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2812 <C-S-i>?
28139 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2814 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
28158 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2816 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028177 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2818 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2819 exiting.
2820
2821
2822Amiga:
28238 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2824 sequences.
28259 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2826 backslashes in result.
28278 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2828 all options, using white space separation.
2829
2830
2831Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002832- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028337 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2834 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2835 (Jack)
2836 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028378 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2838 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028398 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
28408 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
28419 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2842 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028439 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002844
2845
2846"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002847- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2848 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002849- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2850 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002851- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2852 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2853 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2854 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2855 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2856 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2857 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000028589 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2859 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000028609 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002861 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2862 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028638 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2864 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2865 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002866 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028677 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2868 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
28698 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2870 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2871 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028727 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2873 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002874- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2875 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028768 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2877 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2878 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2879 using the horizontal scrollbar.
28807 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2881 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2882 invocations belong together.
28838 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2884 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
28858 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2886 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2887 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01002888 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000028898 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2890 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2891 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028928 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2893 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028947 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2895 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2896 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2897 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028987 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2899 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2900 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
29017 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2902 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2903 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
29047 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2905 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029067 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2907 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029089 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2909 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2910 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2911 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2912 script can be called.
29138 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2914 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2915 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029168 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2917 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000029188 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002919 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2920 configurable?
29218 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
29229 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2923 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2924 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029258 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2926 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029278 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2928 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029298 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2930 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029319 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2932 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2933 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029347 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029358 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2936 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2937 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000029388 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2939 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002940 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2941 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029428 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2943 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
29449 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2945 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2946 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002947 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029487 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2949 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029507 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2951 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2952 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2953 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029548 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002955 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2956 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2957 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2958 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002959 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2960 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002961 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002962 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002963 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2964 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2965 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2966 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2967 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
29688 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2969 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
29709 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2971 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2972 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029738 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2974 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
29758 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2976 in lines that don't extend into the block?
29778 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2978 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2979 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
29808 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2981 'linebreak'.
29828 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2983 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2984 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029859 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2986 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2987 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2988 'magic' in history. (Margo)
29899 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2990 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
29919 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2992 isn't updated).
29939 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
29949 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2995 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2996 cause another redraw, etc.
29978 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2998 must escape special characters in the pattern.
29998 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3000 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3001 ":w!!" for that.
3002 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3003 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003004 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030057 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3006 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3007 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3008 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3009 clipboard)
30107 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3011 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3012 Waggoner)
30138 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
3014 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
3015 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000030166 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3017 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3018 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030198 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3020 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
30218 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3022 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3023 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000030248 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030258 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3026 (e.g., ":w").
30278 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3028 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
30298 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
3030 for ">>".
30318 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3032 script in do_cmdline().
30338 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3034 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3035 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3036 changes.
30378 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3038 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
30398 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3040 check for file marks. This can be slow.
30417 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3042 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3043 needed.
3044 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
30458 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3046 to skip catch_signals()?
30479 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3048 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3049 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3050 text?
30518 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3052 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
30538 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3054 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
30559 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3056 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3057 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3058 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3059 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
30607 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3061 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3062 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3063 in the list?
30648 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3065 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3066 instead of on button down.
30678 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
30689 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3069 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003070 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3071 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030728 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3073 character is typed.
30748 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3075 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
30768 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3077 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
30788 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3079 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3080 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3081 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3082 cygwin bash.
30837 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3084 Remember flags for backreferences.
30857 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3086 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
30877 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3088 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
30898 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3090 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
30917 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3092 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030937 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3094 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3095 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
30967 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3097 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
30988 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3099 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3100 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
31017 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3102 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003103
3104
3105I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
31069 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3107 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3108 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003109
3110
3111Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003112- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3113 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3114 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003115- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3116 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3117 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3118 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3119 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3120 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003121 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003122- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3123 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003124 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003125 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3126 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3127 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003128- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3129 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3130 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3131 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3132 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3133- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3134 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3135 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3136- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3137 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003138- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003139- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3140 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3141 character gets the highlighting.
3142- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3143 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3144- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3145 (Jennings)
3146- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
3147- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3148 errors. How do we get the rest?
3149- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003150- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003151 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
3152- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
3153 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
3154 first?
3155- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
3156 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
3157- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3158 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3159 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3160- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3161 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3162 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3163 (Benzinger).
3164- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3165 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3166 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3167- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3168 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3169- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3170 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3171- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3172 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3173 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3174 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3175 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3176 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3177- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3178 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3179 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003180- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3181 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3182 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003183- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3184 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3185 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3186- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3187 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3188- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3189 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003190- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3191 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3192- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3193 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3194 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3195 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3196 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3197- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3198 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3199 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3200- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3201 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3202 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003203- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3204 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 +00003205- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3206 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3207 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3208 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3209 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3210- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3211 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3212
3213--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3214 *extensions-improvements*
3215
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003216Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3217- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3218 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3219 calling a function.
3220 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3221 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003222- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3223 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
3224- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
3225 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
3226 http://clewn.sf.net.
3227 And the idevim plugin/script.
3228 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
3229 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
3230 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
3231 other window.
3232 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
3233 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
3234 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
3235 in terminal mode.
3236- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3237 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3238 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3239 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3240 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3241 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003242 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003243- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3244 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3245 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003246- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3247 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003248- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
3249 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
3250 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032518 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3252 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3253 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3254 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003255- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3256 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003257
3258
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003259Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032608 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3261 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000032628 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3263 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032648 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3265 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032668 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032677 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
32689 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3269 - change to cursor position and curswant
3270 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3271 - how it works for folded lines
3272 - how it works with multi-byte characters
32739 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3274 work too.
32758 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3276 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3277 text.
32788 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
32797 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3280 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
32817 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3282 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003283 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003284- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3285
3286
3287Help:
3288- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3289 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3290- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3291 to the other matches.
3292- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
3293- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
3294- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3295 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3296 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3297 default contents.
3298- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3299 height for the help window (and other windows).
3300- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3301- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3302- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3303
3304
3305User Friendlier:
33068 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3307 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3308 Briscoe)
33098 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
33108 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3311 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3312 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
33138 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3314 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3315- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3316 ":mkplugin <file>"?
33178 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
3318 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
3319 'runtimepath'.
3320 " Vim plugin
3321 <main plugin code>
3322 " >>> plugin help start <<<
3323 <plugin docs>
3324- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
33259 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3326 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3327 item?).
3328 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033298 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
33307 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000033317 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3332 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3333 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000033348 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3335 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3336 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3337 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003338
3339
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003340Tab pages:
33419 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033427 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3343 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000033448 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000033458 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000033467 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000033477 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003348 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000033497 Add local variables for each tab page?
33508 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3351 tab pages.
33527 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033537 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3354 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003355
3356
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003357Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003358- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3359 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3360- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3361 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3362 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3363- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3364 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003365- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3366 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3367 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003368- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3369 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3370 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003371- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3372 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003373- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003374 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3375 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000033768 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3377 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
33788 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3379 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
33808 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3381 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003382 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003383 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3384 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3385 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3386 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003387- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3388 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003389- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003390- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3391 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003392- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003393 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003394- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003395 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003396- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3397 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003398- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3399 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3400- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003401 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003402 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3403 in the affix file separately.
3404 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003405 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003406 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3407 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3408 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3409- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3410 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3411 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3412 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3413 Alternative:
3414 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3415 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3416 affix which is required.
3417- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003418 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003419- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3420 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3421 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003422- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3423 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003424- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3425 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3426- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000034278 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3428 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3429 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3430 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003431- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3432 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3433 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3434 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034358 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3436 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000034378 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
34388 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3439 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000034407 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
34418 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3442 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3443 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3444 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003445
3446
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003447Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020034489 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3449 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034509 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
3451 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02003452 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034538 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
3454 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
3455 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003456 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
3457 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034587 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
3459 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
3460 location.
3461
3462
3463Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003464 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3465 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034668 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3467 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000034688 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034699 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
3470 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034718 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3472 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3473 user aware of this?
34748 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3475 commands skip over a closed fold.
34768 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
34778 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034787 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003479- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3480 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3481 missing line goes unnoticed.
3482 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003483- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3484 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3485 smoother?
3486- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3487 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003488- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3489 file can contain:
3490 args version.c main.c
3491 edit version.c
3492 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003493- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003494- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3495 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003496- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3497 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003498- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3499 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003500- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000035018 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003502 searches.
3503
3504
3505Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003506- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3507 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3508 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3509 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035109 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3511 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3512 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3513 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020035149 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3515 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3516 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035178 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3518 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3519 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3520 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3521 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3522 item.
35238 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003524 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3525 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035268 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3527 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003528 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003529 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035308 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3531 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035328 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3533 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3534 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035357 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3536 so that the user can fix the problem.
35378 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3538 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035399 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
35408 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035418 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
35428 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035437 Searching and composing characters:
3544 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003545 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3546 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035478 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
35488 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
35498 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3550 characters.
35518 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
35528 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3553 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
35547 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3555 'display' option to specify this.
35567 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3557 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3558- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3559 fontselector somehow.
3560- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3561 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3562- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3563 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3564- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3565 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3566 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3567 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3568 if a font exists?
3569- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003570 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003571- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3572 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
35737 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
3574 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003575- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3576 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3577 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3578 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003579- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3580 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3581 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3582- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3583 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3584 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3585 But it's very complicated...
3586
3587
3588Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000035897 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003590- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3591- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3592 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003593- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3594 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003595- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3596- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3597 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003598- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3599 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003600- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3601 units as for the margins.
3602- Support right-to-left text?
36038 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3604 color.
3605
3606
3607Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036088 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3609 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
36108 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3611 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
36128 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3613 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000036147 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3615 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036168 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3617 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3618 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036197 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3620 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3621 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036228 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
36239 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3624 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036257 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3626 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000036277 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3628 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036298 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3630 change this for each release.
36318 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3632 pattern, but not in the body.
36338 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3634 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3635 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036368 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010036378 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003638 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3639 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036408 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3641 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
36428 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3643 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003644 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036458 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3646 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3647 used.
36488 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3649 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
36508 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3651 re-insert the [] if possible.
36528 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3653 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000036548 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3655 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3656 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3657 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3658 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036598 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3660 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
36618 Support for deleting syntax items:
3662 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3663 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3664 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
36658 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3666 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3667 a '<'. (Fleiner)
36687 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3669 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3670 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
36717 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3672 detected.
36738 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003674 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036758 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3676 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036778 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
36788 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
36797 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3680 ":mkvimrc".
36818 Improve c.vim:
3682 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3683 "c_strict_ansi".
3684 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
36858 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3686 current line while in Insert mode.
36878 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3688 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
36898 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3690 display position.
36918 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3692 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3693 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
36948 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3695 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3696 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036978 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3698 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3699 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000037007 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3701 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3702 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3703 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3704 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037057 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3706 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3707 E.g. for this html:
3708 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037097 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
37107 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3711 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037128 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
37138 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037147 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3715 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3716 completion?
37178 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3718 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
37197 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3720 select one of the sets.
37218 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3722 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3723 2, etc.
37248 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3725 highlighting (for "." command).
37268 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3727 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
37288 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
37297 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3730 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
37316 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3732 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3733- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3734 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3735- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003736- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3737 (for comment blocks).
3738- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3739 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3740 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3741 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3742 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3743 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3744 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3745 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3746 (Campbell)
3747 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3748 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
37497 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3750 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
37517 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3752 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3753 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
37547 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3755 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3756 messages. And external commands?
37578 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3758 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
37597 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3760 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3761
3762
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01003763Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037648 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3765 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003766 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000037677 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3768 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3769 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037708 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3771 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003772- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3773 2006 Dec 11.
3774- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020037758 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3776 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3777 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3778 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3779 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3780 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000037817 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3782 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037838 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010037848 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
3785 can be the plugin name.
3786 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
3787 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037887 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3789 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3790 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3791 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3792 autocommand.
3793 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3794 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3795 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3796 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037977 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3798 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037996 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3800 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038018 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003802 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3803 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003804 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3805 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3806 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003807 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3808 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3809 3 2002
3810 Only add this when also implemented for
3811 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3812 be used.
3813 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003814 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3815 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3816 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3817 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3818 File.Open..." argument.
3819 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3820 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3821 with properties instead.
3822 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3823 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3824 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003825 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003826 crypt() encrypt string
3827 decrypt() decrypt string
3828 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3829 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003830 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003831 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003832 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003833 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003834 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003835 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3836 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003837 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3838 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003839 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003840 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3841 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003842 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3843 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3844 to allow the library to execute a command or
3845 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038467 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3847 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
38488 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3849 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038508 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3851 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038528 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038537 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3854 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
38556 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000038568 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3857 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038588 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3859 option or environment variable.
38608 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038618 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003862 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000038637 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3864 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038658 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3866 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
38678 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
38688 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3869 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3870 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3871 charwise({expr}).
38727 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3873 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3874 buffer for this?
3875 result = scratch(string, command)
3876 result = apply(string, command)
3877 result = execute(string, command)
3878 "command" would use <> notation.
3879 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
38807 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003881
3882
3883Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000038846 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3885 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3886 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3887 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3888 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3889 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3890 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003891
3892
3893Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000038947 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3895 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020038967 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3897 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3898 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3899 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000039008 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3901 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3902 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3903 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003904 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039058 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3906 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3907 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039088 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
39099 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
39108 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
39117 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3912 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
39138 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3914 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3915 when starting up in a color terminal.
39168 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3917 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039188 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3919 function be improved?
39208 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3921 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3922 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3923 this be improved?
39248 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3925 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039267 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3927 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039287 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3929 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
39307 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3931 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020039327 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039337 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3934 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3935 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3936 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3937 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3938 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3939 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039408 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3941 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3942 using strcmp() too often?
39437 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3944 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3945 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3946 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3947 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3948 the two blocks to the memfile block.
39497 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3950 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3951 with an argument that can be messed with.
3952 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3953 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
39547 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3955- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
39568 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3957 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3958- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3959 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3960- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3961- Do profiling on:
3962 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3963 - 1000ii<Esc>
3964 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3965 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3966 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3967 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3968 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3969 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003970 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039717 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3972 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3973 changed).
3974 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3975 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3976- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3977- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3978 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3979- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3980 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3981 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3982- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3983 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3984- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3985- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3986 cursor is right of the screen.
39878 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3988 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3989
3990
3991Code size:
39928 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3993- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3994 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
39958 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
39968 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3997 it.
39987 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3999 left out.
40008 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4001 can be removed.
40028 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
4003
4004
4005Messages:
40068 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4007 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
40088 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4009 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
40108 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4011 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004012- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4013 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4014- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040158 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4016 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040179 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4018 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4019 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4020 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4021 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040228 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4023 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
40248 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4025 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4026 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4027 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4028 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4029 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004030- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004031 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040328 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4033 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4034 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4035 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4036 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4037 error messages, printing text, etc.
40388 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4039 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4040 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4041
4042
4043Screen updating:
40447 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4045 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4046 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4047- screen_line():
4048 - insert/delete character stuff.
4049 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4050- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4051 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4052- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4053 waiting for a character.
40548 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4055 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4056 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
40577 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004058
4059
4060Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020040618 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040626 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4063- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4064 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4065 windows.
40667 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4067 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4068 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4069- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4070 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4071 (Goldfarb)
4072- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4073 bound windows.
4074- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4075 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004076- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004077- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4078 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4079 of lines but not with a single line).
4080
4081
4082Autoconf:
40838 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
40848 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4085 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4086- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4087 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4088- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4089- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4090- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4091
4092
4093Perl interface:
40948 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040957 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
40967 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
40976 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4098
4099
4100Shared libraries:
41016 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4102 :libload internal-name libname
4103 :libunload internal-name
4104 :liblist
4105 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4106 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4107 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
41086 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4109
4110
4111Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000041129 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4113 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4114 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4115 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4116 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041178 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4118 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4119 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004120 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004121 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000041227 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4123 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4124 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041258 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
41268 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4127 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041287 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4129 window for each tag.
41307 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
41317 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4132 bottom" search message.
41337 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4134 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4135 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004136- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4137- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004138- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4139 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4140 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041417 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4142 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4143 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4144 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
41457 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4146 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4147 :tagargs clear
4148 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4149 matching).
41507 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4151 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4152 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4153 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
41547 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4155 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
41567 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4157 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4158 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004159
4160
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004161Win32 GUI:
41628 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4163 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041647 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4165 (Mike McCollister)
41668 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4167 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4168 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4169 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4170 common part of the path.
41718 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
41728 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4173 gettext and menus work.
41748 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4175 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004176 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004177 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
41788 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4179 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
41808 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4181 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
41827 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4183 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
41847 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
41857 <Esc> should close a dialog.
41867 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4187 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4188 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4189 prompts.
41907 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4191 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4192 the file added into an already running Vim.
41937 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4194 functions to find the window title.
4195
4196
4197GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020041988 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004199- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4200 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
42017 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
42028 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
42036 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
42048 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4205 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
42069 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
42077 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
42088 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4209 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
42108 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4211 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4212 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
42138 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4214 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
42158 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4216 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4217 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4218 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042197 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
42208 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4221 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000042227 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4223 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4224 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042258 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
42268 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004227 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042288 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
42298 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
42308 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4231 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4232 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
42337 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4234 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4235 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
42367 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4237 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
42387 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4239 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4240 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4241 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
42427 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
4243 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
42447 Should support multi-column menus.
4245- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4246 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4247- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
42488 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
42496 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4250 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
42517 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
42527 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4253 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4254 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
42557 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
42568 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4257 name can be chosen free.
42587 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4259 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
42606 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4261 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4262 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4263 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4264 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4265 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4266 things.
42677 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4268 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042697 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004270 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004271- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4272 where it was started from?
42737 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4274
4275
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004276Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020042779 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4278 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004279- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010042808 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4281 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4282 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4283 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
42848 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4285 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000042867 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4287 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4288 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4289 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000042907 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000042918 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4292 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042938 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4294 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4295 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000042967 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4297 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4298 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042998 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4300 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4301 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000043028 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4303 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043048 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043056 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4306 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000043077 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043087 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004309 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4310 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4311 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043125 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4313 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4314 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
43157 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4316 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4317 file.
43188 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4319 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4320 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004321- Add events to autocommands:
4322 Error - When an error happens
4323 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004324 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00004325 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
4326 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004327 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00004328 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004329 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4330 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004331 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004332 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004333 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4334 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4335 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4336 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004337 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004338 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4339 the char.
4340 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4341 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4342 file from CVS).
4343 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4344 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4345 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4346 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4347 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4348 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004349 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4350 changes.
4351 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4352 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004353- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004354 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004355 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004356 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4357 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4358 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4359 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4360 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4361
4362
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004363Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004364- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4365 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004366- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4367 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4368 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4369 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4370 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004371- Ideas from others:
4372 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4373 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4374 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4375 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4376 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4377 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4378 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4379 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4380 Uses Perl for C++.
4381 Uses ctags to find the info:
4382 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4383 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4384 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4385 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4386 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4387 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004388 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004389 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4390- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4391
4392
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004393Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004394- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000043957 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4396 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043977 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4398 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4399 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044008 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4401 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
44029 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4403 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4404 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044058 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4406 - ignore/match case
4407 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044088 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4409 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4410 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4411 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4412 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4413 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044148 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000044157 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4416 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044178 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4418 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4419 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4420 Should work for C++ and Java.
4421 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
44227 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
44237 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4424 instead of words.
44258 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
44268 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4427 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
44288 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4429 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004430- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4431 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004432- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4433 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4434 wildcards in the file name)?
4435- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4436- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4437- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4438 be in another file).
4439- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4440- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4441- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4442 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4443- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4444- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4445- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004446- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4447
4448
4449Command line editing:
44507 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4451 line.
44528 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4453 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4454 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4455- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4456 lines wraps to start of line).
4457- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4458 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4459 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4460 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4461 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4462 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4463 cmdwin does now already.
4464 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4465 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4466 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4467 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4468 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4469 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4470 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4471 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4472 Problems:
4473 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4474 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4475 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4476 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4477 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4478 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4479 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4480 character in first column?
4481 - Implementation ideas:
4482 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4483 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4484 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4485 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4486 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4487 Mode.
4488
4489
4490Command line completion:
44918 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
44928 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4493 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
44948 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4495 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044968 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4497 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044987 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4499 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004500- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4501- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4502 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045038 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4504 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
45057 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4506 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4507- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4508 identifiers (Webb).
45098 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4510 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
45117 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4512 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4513- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4514 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4515- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4516 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4517 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004518
4519
4520Command line history:
4521- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4522 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4523 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4524 completely resulted from one mapping.
4525- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4526 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4527
4528
4529Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000045309 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4531 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4532 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045338 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4534 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4535 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4536 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4537 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045388 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4539 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4540 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045417 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4542 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004543- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020045449 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045457 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4546 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4547- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4548 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4549 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4550 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4551 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4552 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4553- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4554 Normal mode.
4555- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4556 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4557 are used.
4558- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4559- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4560- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4561
4562
4563'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010045649 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4565 char * veryLongName =
4566 "very long string"
4567 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045688 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045698 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4570 long_type foo =
4571 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045728 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4573 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004574 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045758 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4576 func(
4577 new String[] {
4578 "asdf",
4579 "asdf"
4580 }
4581 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010045828 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4583 (Chow Loong Jin)
4584 namespace {
4585 int
4586 func(int arg) {
4587 }
4588 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045896 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4590 func( arg1
4591 , arg2
4592 , arg3
4593 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000045947 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004595 func(
4596 int x) // indent like "(4"
4597 {
4598 if (a
4599 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046009 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4601 if (a)
4602 {
4603 if (b)
4604 {
4605 // {
4606 }
4607 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004608 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4609 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4610 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004611- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004612 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
46137 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4614- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4615 line).
4616- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4617- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4618 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004619- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4620 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4621- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4622 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4623- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4624- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4625 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
46268 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4627 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4628 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4629- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4630- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4631 lines start with "\item".
4632- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4633 /* here is a comment that
4634 is just autoindented, and
4635 nothing else */
4636- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
46377 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4638 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4639 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004640 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004641
4642
4643Java:
46448 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4645 Odendahl?
46468 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4647 "[i" commands and friends.
4648- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4649 (Jason)
4650- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4651 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4652
4653
4654'comments':
46558 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4656 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4657 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4658 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004659 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4660 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046617 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4662 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
46637 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
46646 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4665 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4666 regexp is used.
46678 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4668 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4669
4670
4671Virtual edit:
46728 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046737 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4674
4675
4676Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046778 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046788 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000046798 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004680 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000046818 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4682 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004683 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4684 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000046858 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046867 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4687 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046888 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4689 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046908 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4691 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4692 the end of the line or before a ".".
46937 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4694 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
46957 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4696 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046976 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
46985 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4699 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4700 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4701 cursor is on.
4702
4703
4704Select mode:
47058 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4706 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
47077 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004708 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047097 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4710 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4711 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4712 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4713 normal_cmd().
4714 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4715 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4716
4717
4718Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020047198 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4720 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004721- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4722 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4723 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004724- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4725 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4726 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047278 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004728 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004729 where needed.
47307 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4731 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
47327 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4733 of each selected line.
47348 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
47358 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4736 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4737 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
47388 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4739 Ben Godfrey)
47407 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4741 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
47427 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4743 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
47447 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4745 Young is working on this)
47467 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004747 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004748 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
47498 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4750 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
47517 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4752 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4753 option!
47547 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4755 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4756 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4757 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4758 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4759 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4760 without changing the column.
47616 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047627 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4763 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047646 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4765 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
47666 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047676 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004768 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004769 or other special character.
47706 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4771
4772
4773More advanced repeating commands:
4774- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000047757 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004776 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004777- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004778- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004779 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4780 "y." will repeat last yank.
4781 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4782 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4783 and/or pick an older command.
4784- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4785
4786
4787Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047888 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4789 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4790 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
47918 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
47927 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4793 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047948 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4795 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
47968 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000047977 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047988 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4799 entering search strings.
48008 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4801 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4802 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048038 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4804 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048058 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4806 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4807 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
48087 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048097 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4810 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048116 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4812 abbreviations are to be used.
4813- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4814 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4815 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004816- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4817 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4818 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4819 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4820 Or implicit:
4821 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004822- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4823 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4824 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004825- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4826 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4827- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4828 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
48296 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4830 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4831 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4832 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004833- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4834 non-replace Insert mode?
4835- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004836- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4837- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4838 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4839- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004840 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004841- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4842 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4843- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4844- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4845 ":freekeys".
4846- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4847
4848
4849Incsearch:
4850- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4851- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4852 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4853 up every time.
4854- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4855 folds when going to another line.
4856- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4857 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4858 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4859 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4860- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4861 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4862
4863
4864Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010048659 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000048668 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004867 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004868 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004869 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004870 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048719 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4872 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010048738 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4874 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000048758 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4876 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4877 Perl does it this way:
4878 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4879 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4880 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4881 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048828 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4883 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4884 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048858 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4886 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4887 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000048887 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4889 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000048908 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4891 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000048927 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004893 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4894 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4895 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
48967 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4897 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000048987 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004899 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049007 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4901 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049028 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4903 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
49048 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4905 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020049067 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004907 example.
49088 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4909 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4910- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4911 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4912 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4913 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049148 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4915 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4916 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
49177 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4918 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000049197 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4920 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049218 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4922 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049238 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4924 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049258 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4926 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4927 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4928 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004929- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4930 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004931- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4932 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4933- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4934 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4935 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4936 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049378 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4938 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004939- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4940 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049418 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4942 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4943 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004944- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4945 i ignore case
4946 I use case
4947 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4948 v use Vi regexp syntax
4949 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4950 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4951 Perl uses these too:
4952 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4953 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4954 o compile only once (Perl only)
4955 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4956 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4957 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4958 following command.
4959 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4960- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4961 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4962 for search string)?
49637 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4964 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4965- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4966 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4967- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4968 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4969- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4970- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004971 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004972 a for the next file in the argument list
4973 f for file in the buffer list
4974 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004975 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4976 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004977 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4978 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4979- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049807 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004981 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049827 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4983 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4984 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4985 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
49866 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4987 effects.
49887 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4989 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4990 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049917 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004992 Also ":dselect".
4993
4994
4995Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010049969 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4997 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
4998 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049999 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5000 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020050018 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
5002 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
5003 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
50048 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5005 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050068 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5007 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5008 timestamp?
5009 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5010 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050118 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
5012 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
5013 was changed outside of Vim.
5014 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
5015 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02005016 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
5017 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005018- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5019 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005020- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5021 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5022 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
50238 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5024 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5025 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5026 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
50278 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5028 only remember the lines that really changed.
50297 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5030 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5031 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5032 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005033- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5034 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5035- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5036 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5037- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5038 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5039 [-99].
5040- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5041- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005042- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5043 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5044
5045
5046Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050477 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5048 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5049 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5050 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
50518 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5052 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
50538 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5054 inode too.
50557 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005056 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5057 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050587 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5059 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5060- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5061 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5062- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5063 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
50647 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5065 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
50667 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5067 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
50688 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000050698 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005070 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
50717 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5072 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010050738 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5074 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5075 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005076
5077
5078Swap (.swp) files:
50798 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5080 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5081 there are short file name problems.
50828 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5083 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
50848 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
50858 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005086 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005087 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5088 file the same as the actual file?
5089 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050907 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5091 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
50927 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005093 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005094 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5095 enough room.
50967 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5097 or /var/preserve.
5098- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5099 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5100- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
5101 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
5102- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5103 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5104 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5105 cached list of which line is where.
5106
5107
5108Viminfo:
51097 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5110 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5111 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000051128 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5113 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5114 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051158 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5116 name. (Schild)
51178 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
51188 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051198 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051208 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5121 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5122 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5123 this?
51247 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
51257 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5126 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
51276 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5128 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5129 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5130- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5131 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5132
5133
5134Modelines:
51358 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5136 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5137 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005138- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5139 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5140 'shiftwidth'.
5141- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5142 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005143- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5144 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5145 modeline setting.
5146- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5147 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5148- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5149 .cpp files.
5150- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5151 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5152- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5153 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5154
5155
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005156Sessions:
51578 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5158 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
51597 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5160 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051618 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5162 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051638 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5164 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5165 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000051667 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5167 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000051687 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005169
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005170
5171Options:
51727 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5173 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051748 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5175 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5176 also be supported.
51778 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5178 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5179 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
51807 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
51817 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
5182 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01005183 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005184
5185
5186External commands:
51878 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5188 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
51894 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5190 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5191 -f).
51924 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
51934 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5194 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
51954 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5196
5197
5198Multiple Windows:
51997 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
52008 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5201 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
52027 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5203 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5204 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000052057 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5206 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000052077 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5208 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052096 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5210 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005211 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005212 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
52137 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5214 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5215 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5216 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5217- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5218 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5219 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5220 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5221
5222
5223Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052248 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052258 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5226 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000052278 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 +000052288 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5229 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
52308 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5231 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5232 the mark was set.
52337 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5234 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5235 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5236 ":browse marks"?
52376 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052387 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5239 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
52407 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5241 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
52427 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5243 command).
52447 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5245 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5246 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5247 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
52485 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5249 mappings.
52506 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5251 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5252 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5253
5254
5255Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020052567 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005257 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005258- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5259 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000052608 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052617 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5262 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5263
5264
5265Writing files:
5266- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5267 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5268 shortname conversion.
52698 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
52708 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5271 file.
52728 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5273 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5274 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052756 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5276 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
52776 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5278 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
52796 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5280 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000052818 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005282 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
52837 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5284 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
52857 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5286 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5287 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5288 waiting for a character to be typed).
52898 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5290 line of the window, like "[time]".
5291 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5292 Automatic and/or with a command.
5293
5294
5295Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000052968 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5297 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000052988 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005299 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5300- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5301- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
53028 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5303 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005304- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005305 :s///N substitutes N times.
5306- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5307 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5308 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
53097 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5310 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5311 last line column 5.
53125 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5313 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5314 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5315 (Stanislav Sitar)
5316
5317
5318Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053198 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
53207 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
53218 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5322 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5323 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005324- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5325- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5326 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5327- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5328- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5329
5330
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005331Argument list:
53326 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5333 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5334 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
53356 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5336
5337
5338Registers:
53398 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053408 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5341 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5342 for every line.
53436 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5344 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5345 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5346- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5347 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5348- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5349 leader when line wraps?
5350- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5351 line in the range.
5352- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5353 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
53548 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5355 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005356
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005357
5358Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053598 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000053608 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053617 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
53627 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5363
5364
5365Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000053667 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5367 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5368 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5369 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5370 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5371 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5372 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005373 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000053747 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5375 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000053767 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5377 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053788 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5379 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053807 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5381 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5382 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005383- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005384 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053857 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5386 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010053877 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5388 window as a buffer-tab selection.
53898 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053907 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
5391 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
5392 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005393 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
5394 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053957 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5396 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
53978 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5398 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053996 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054008 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5401 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5402 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5403 in this Vim.
54048 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005405 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054068 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5407 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5408 have it apply to the following command.
54098 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5410 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5411 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5412 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054137 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5414 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054157 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5416 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5417 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5418 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054196 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
54208 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
54219 Support ACLs on more systems.
54227 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5423 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054247 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5425 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5426 (truncated to fit in the space).
54277 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
54288 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
54298 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5430 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000054317 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005432 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
54337 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5434 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054357 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054367 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
54377 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054388 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
54398 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5440 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5441 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5442 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
54438 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
54446 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
5445 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005446 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01005447 Patch to add async functionality. (Geoff Greer, 2013 Sep 1 and later)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054488 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054498 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5450 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5451 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5452 does something like this. (Shah)
54537 Use growarray for replace stack.
54547 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5455 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
54563 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054577 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5458 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010054597 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5460 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005461- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5462- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5463- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5464- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
54657 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5466 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5467- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5468 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005469- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005470- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5471 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5472- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5473 call "play newbeep.au").
5474- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5475 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5476 (Bhatt).
5477- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5478 blockwise registers).
5479- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5480 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5481- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5482 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5483 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5484 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005485- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054867 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5487 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5488- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5489 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5490 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5491 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5492 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054938 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5494 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054958 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5496 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5497 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5498 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5499 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5500- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005501- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055027 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5503 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5504- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5505 not in column 1.
55066 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5507 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
55087 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5509- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005510- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005511 :redir #> bufname
5512 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005513- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5514 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005515- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5516 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5517 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
55186 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5519 console? (Klaus Hast)
5520- Add :delcr command:
5521 *:delcr*
5522 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5523 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5524 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5525 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5526 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5527 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5528- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5529- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5530 characters from 'isprint'.
5531- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5532- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5533 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5534- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5535 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5536 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5537- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5538- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5539 Nvi).
5540- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5541 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
55427 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5543- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5544 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
55456 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5546- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5547 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5548 macro).
5549- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005550- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5551 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5552- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
55538 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005554- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5555- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5556- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5557 if it is not the first or last window.
5558- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5559 there is one) instead of the file itself.
55607 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5561 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5562 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5563- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5564- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005565 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005566 many percent down the windows).
5567- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5568 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5569 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005570 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005571- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5572 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5573- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5574 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5575- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5576- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5577- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5578 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055798 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5580 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5581 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5582 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5583 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005584- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5585 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5586- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005587 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5588- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005589 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5590 (Webb).
5591- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005592 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005593- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5594 hex codes like 0xff).
5595- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5596 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5597 the last TYPED command.
5598- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5599- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5600- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5601 should also work?
5602- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
56038 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5604 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5605 name.
5606- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5607 trailing '.'.
5608- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5609 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5610 find_file_in_path().
5611- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5612 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5613- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5614- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5615 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5616- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005617 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005618- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5619 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5620 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005621- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5622- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5623- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5624 to the minimal size.
5625- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5626- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5627- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5628- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5629- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005630- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5631 entered)?
5632- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5633 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005634- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005635- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5636- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5637- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5638- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5639- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5640 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005641- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056428 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5643 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5644 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5645 or in octal.
56467 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5647 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005648- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005649 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5650- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5651- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5652 insert line command).
5653- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5654- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5655- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5656- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5657- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5658 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005659- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005660 yet.
5661- Implement 'redraw' option.
5662- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5663 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056647 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5665 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005666 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5667 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056688 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5669 do it.
5670- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5671- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5672 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5673- Add text justification option.
5674- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5675- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5676 off".
5677- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5678- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5679- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005680 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005681- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005682- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005683- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5684- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5685 commands.
5686- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5687- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5688- :table command (Webb)
5689- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005690- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5691- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5692- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5693- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5694- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5695 (Demirel).
5696- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5697- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5698 for use in macro's and the like.
5699- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005700 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005701- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005702 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005703- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005704 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005705 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5706- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5707 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005708- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005709 mkopttab to make option table?
5710- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5711 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5712- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5713 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005714- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005715 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5716- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5717 cursor?
5718- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5719- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
57205 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5721 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000057228 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5723 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5724 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5725 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5726 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057278 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5728 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5729 (Netherton)
57306 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5731 space after "(", for example.
57325 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5733 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5734 (Servatius Brandt)
5735
5736
5737From Elvis:
5738- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5739- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005740- Search patterns:
5741 \@ match word under cursor.
5742 but do:
5743 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5744 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
57458 ":window" command:
5746 :win + next window (up)
5747 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5748 :win - previous window (down)
5749 :win -- idem, wrapping
5750 :win nr to window number "nr"
5751 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
57527 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5753 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5754
5755
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005756From xvi:
5757- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5758- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5759
5760
5761From vile:
5762- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5763- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5764 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5765
5766
5767Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005768- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5769 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5770 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5771 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5772 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005773- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5774 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5775- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5776 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5777 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5778 current layout mirrored.
5779- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5780- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5781 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5782- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5783- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5784 font in each top-level window.
5785- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5786- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5787- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5788- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5789 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5790- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5791 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5792 mentioned in the tags file.
5793 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5794 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5795- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5796 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5797- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5798 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
57994 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5800 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5801 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5802 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005803 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005804 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5805 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5806- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5807 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5808 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5809
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005810When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5811empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005812
5813vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5814vim: set fo+=n :