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Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2022 Jun 23
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
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
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Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +010041Prepare for the Vim 9.0 release:
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +010042- Update version9.txt
Bram Moolenaar46eea442022-03-30 10:51:39 +010043- Adjust intro message to say "help version9".
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010044
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020045Further Vim9 improvements, possibly after launch:
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +010046- Use Vim9 for more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaara4d131d2021-12-27 21:33:07 +000047- Check performance with callgrind and kcachegrind.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +010048 getline()/substitute()/setline() in #5632
Bram Moolenaar2f0936c2022-01-08 21:51:59 +000049- Better implementation for partial and tests for that.
50- when using "const" mark the variable type as const with TTFLAG_CONST, so
51 that an error is given at compile time when trying to change it. E.g. for a
52 const list and trying to call add().
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020053- Compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010054 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
55 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
56 Give an error if compilation fails. (#7625)
Bram Moolenaar6aa57292021-08-14 21:25:52 +020057 Alternatively: Detect a compiled function call and skip the expression
58 evaluation.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010059 Use the location where the option was set for deciding whether it's to be
60 evaluated in Vim9 script context.
Bram Moolenaar6f4754b2022-01-23 12:07:04 +000061- implement :type
62- implement :enum
Bram Moolenaara4d131d2021-12-27 21:33:07 +000063- implement :class and :interface: See |vim9-classes|
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010064- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
65 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +020066- Inline call to map() and filter(), better type checking.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010067- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
68 EVAL expr
69 LOADVARARG (varargs idx)
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020070- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
71 has(featureName), len(someString)
72- Implement as part of an expression: ++expr, --expr, expr++, expr--.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010073
Bram Moolenaarfa3b7232021-12-24 13:18:38 +000074Update list of features to vote on:
75- multiple cursors
76- built-in LSP support
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +010077- virtual text, using text properties
78- start first line halfway, scroll per screen line
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010079
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020080Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +020081- Preview popup not properly updated when it overlaps with completion menu.
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +010082 (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2021 May 22)
83- Srollbar thumb sometimes not visible #10492
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +010084- Add a function to redraw a specific popup window. Esp. to be used when
85 editing the command line, when screen updating doesn't happen. (Shougo)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +020086- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable?
87 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in
88 current window.
89 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows
90 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +020091- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
92 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010093- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +020094- Make it possible to scroll horizontally when 'wrap' is off. Does this
95 require an ascii scrollbar, like with the vertical one?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010096- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
97 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
98 the way. (#5737)
99 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +0200100- Width is not computed correctly when minwidth and maxwidth are &columns
101 and padding and a scrollbar are used. (#6676)
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +0100102- Should popup_getoptions() also return the mask? #7774
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200103- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
104 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100105- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
106 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
107- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200108- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200109 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100110- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
111 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200112- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100113 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100114- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200115
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200116Text properties:
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200117- property is overruled by cursorline. (#8225).
118 Add better control over priority? Make list of all highlighting, specify
119 where property fits in.
120 Or Should we let the textprop highlight overrule other (e.g. diff) highlight
121 if the priority is above a certain value? (#7392)
Bram Moolenaar2d8ed022022-05-21 13:08:16 +0100122 Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
123 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaar3f32a5f2022-05-12 20:34:15 +0100124- "C" works OK. "dd" fails to delete text property in a buffer with a single
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100125 line.
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100126- Add text property that shifts text to make room for annotation (e.g.
127 variable type). Like the opposite of conceal. Requires fixing the cursor
128 positioning and mouse clicks as with conceal mode.
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100129- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200130
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100131'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200132- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
133 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
134- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200135- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200136- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
137 isn't one?
138 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
139
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200140Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100141- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200142- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100143- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200144
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200145Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +0100146- Add a mechanism for configuration. Instead of several global variables use
147 a dictionary. Use callbacks for some things, e.g. opening a debug window in
148 a certain position.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200149- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100150- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
151 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100152- Use the optional token on requests, match the result with it. #10300
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200153- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200154- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200155 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
156 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100157- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100158- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
159 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100160 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100161 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200162
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200163Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100164- Can escape a terminal popup with win_gotoid(), should be an error
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200165- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200166- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
167 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
168 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200169- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
170 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
171 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
172 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200173- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
174 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100175- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
176 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200177 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
178 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100179 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100180- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100181- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
182 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200183- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
184 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200185- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200186- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
187 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
188- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
189 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200190- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
191 is disabled.
192- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
193- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
194 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200195- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
196 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
197 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100198- Redrawing is slow with Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200199- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
200 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
201- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
202 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200203
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100204Patches considered for including:
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100205- use ngettext() in a few more places #10606
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100206- Add "-n" option to xxd. #10599
207- Support %e and %k in 'errorformat'. #9624
208- Add support for "underdouble", "underdot" and "underdash". #9553
209- Patch to implement the vimtutor with a plugin: #6414
210 Was originally written by Felipe Morales.
211- Patch to make fillchars global-local. (#5206)
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100212- Version of getchar() that does not move the cursor - #10603
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100213
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +0100214Autoconf: must use autoconf 2.69, later version generates lots of warnings
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +0100215- try using autoconf 2.71 and fix all "obsolete" warnings
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Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100217Can deref_func_name() and deref_function_name() be merged?
218
Bram Moolenaar921bde82022-05-09 19:50:35 +0100219After patch 8.2.4915 w_botline is computed much more often. Can this be
220reduced?
Bram Moolenaarfd31be22022-01-16 14:46:06 +0000221
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100222NFA regexp does not handle composing characters well: #10286
223 [ɔ̃] matches both ɔ and ɔ̃
224 \(ɔ\|ɔ̃\) matches ɔ and not ɔ̃
225
Bram Moolenaar1588bc82022-03-08 21:35:07 +0000226Improvement in terminal configuration mess: Request the terminfo entry from
227the terminal itself. The $TERM value then is only relevant for whether this
228feature is supported or not. Replaces the xterm mechanism to request each
229entry separately. #6609
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +0100230Multiplexers (screen, tmux) can request it to the underlying terminal, and
Bram Moolenaar1588bc82022-03-08 21:35:07 +0000231pass it on with modifications.
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Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100233Can "CSI nr X" be used instead of outputting spaces? Is it faster? #8002
234
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +0100235With a window height of 6 and 'scrolloff' set to 3, using "j" does not scroll
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100236evenly. (#10545) Need to handle this in scroll_cursor_bot().
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +0100237
Bram Moolenaar89a9c152021-08-29 21:55:35 +0200238Idea: when typing ":e /some/dir/" and "dir" does not exist, highlight in red.
239
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100240":set shellpipe&" and ":set shellredir&" should use the logic from
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200241initialization to figure out the default value from 'shell'. Add a test for
242this.
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Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100244With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
245(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
246need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
247IDEA: when drawing the text, store the text byte index in ScreenLinesIdx[].
248When converting screen column to text position use this.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100249The line number can be obtained from win->w_lines[].
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100250
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200251MS-Windows: did path modifier :p:8 stop working? #8600
252
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100253test_arglist func Test_all_not_allowed_from_cmdwin() hangs on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200254
Bram Moolenaar47003982021-12-05 21:54:04 +0000255Information for a specific terminal (e.g. gnome, tmux, konsole, alacritty) is
256spread out. Make a section with copy/paste examples of script and pointers to
257more information.
258
Bram Moolenaar90df4b92021-07-07 20:26:08 +0200259Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
260work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
261Also see #8487 for an example.
262
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200263Request to use "." for the cursor column in search pattern \%<.c and \%<.v.
264(#8179)
265
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +0000266":filter set termcap" only filters terminal codes, not keys. (#9297)
267
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +0100268Add an option to restrict 'incsearch' to not scroll the view. (Tavis Ormandy)
269
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000270Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
271
Bram Moolenaar519cc552021-11-16 19:18:26 +0000272When 'term' starts with "foot" then default t_TI and t_TE to the values used
273for the builtin xterm termcap.
274
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +0100275Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
Bram Moolenaare0e39172021-01-25 21:14:57 +0100276(#4087) Did patch 8.2.2379 help?
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100277Also, z= in German on a long word can take a very long time, but CTRL-C to
278interrupt does not work. Where to add ui_breakcheck()?
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000279New English spell files also have very slow suggestions.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200280
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200281Make "g>" and "g<" in Visual mode move the text right or left.
282Also for a block selection. #8558
283
Bram Moolenaar1588bc82022-03-08 21:35:07 +0000284When using dictionary insert completion with 'ignorecase', the leading capital
285in a word should be preserved.
286
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200287Add optional argument to virtcol() that specifies "start", "cursor" or "end"
288to tell which value from getvvcol() should be used. (#7964)
289Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
290inconsistent with the documentation.
291
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100292globpath() does not use 'wildignorecase' at all? (related to #8350)
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200293
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200294Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
295with 'termguicolors'. #1740
296
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200297Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660. Asked for a PR.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200298
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100299Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc.
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Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200301Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co
302changes.
303
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100304Add ??= operator, "a ??= b" works like "a = a ?? b". #10343
305
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200306Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE.
307This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need
308to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011
309
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200310Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab".
311Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901)
312
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200313Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
314Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
315
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200316Make the jumplist behave like a tag stack. (#7738) Should there be a more
317time bound navigation, like with undo?
318
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100319For testing, make a copy of ml_line_ptr instead of pointing it into the data
320block, so that valgrind can do out of bounds check. Set ML_LINE_DIRTY flag or
321add ML_LINE_ALLOCED.
322
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100323Changing a capturing group to non-capturing changes the result: #7607
324 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
325 aaa
326 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\%(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
327 aaa bbb
328Should also work without any group:
329 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '.\{-1,}\>\|.*')
330 aaa bbb (should be aaa)
331
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200332Should add a match/str/list/pos method that also returns the test and position
333of submatches. #8355
334
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200335Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200336Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200337(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
338Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
339- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
340 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
341 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
342- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
343 covered by the above change.
344So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
345same thing.
346Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200347
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200348Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054)
349Is OK when syntax HL is active.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200350
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200351Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count.
352Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096)
353After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should
354work.
355
356Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of
357autocommands be made faster? (#7056)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200358
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200359Append in Visual block mode inserts the wrong character.
360Test_visual_block_mode() already has the proper check, which is commented out.
361(#8288)
362
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200363Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
364 replace this:
365 let left = GetLeftFunc()
366 let right = GetRightFunc()
367 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
368 by:
369 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200370Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
371
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200372Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI?
373
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100374":pedit" ignores the local working directory when 'pvp' is set (#7267)
375
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200376Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
377(#6539)
378
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100379File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
380
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100381A syntax plugin cannot use autocommands, it could be sourced from setting
382'syntax' in a modeline. Add a function that indicates whethere "secure"
383and/or "sandbox" are set.
384
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200385Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
386character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200387
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100388When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
389(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
390
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200391With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
392'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100393
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200394Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
395which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
396#6127
397
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200398Add a cterm attribute for "dimmed" or "faint" text. (#8269)
399
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200400When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
401":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
402Might be related to #6088.
403
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200404Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt".
405(#6919)
406
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200407When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
408Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
409(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
410
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100411Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
412(Paul Jolly, #5656)
413Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100414 Later more requests for what to track.
415 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
416 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
417 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100418BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100419Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100420
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200421Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
422
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200423Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
424
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100425:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
426Dec 19)
427
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200428Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
429Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
430
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100431Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
432May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200433Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
434remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100435Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200436
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100437When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
438the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
439
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200440Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100441Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
442in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200443Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
444(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200445
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200446Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
447that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
448Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100449
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100450Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100451
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200452":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
453find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
454
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200455Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
456
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100457Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
458
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100459Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
460
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100461"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
462
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200463Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
464Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
465
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100466Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
467
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200468When a help file is opened that doesn't have "ft=help" in the modeline then
469the FileType is first set to "text" before it is set to "help". (#8099)
470
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200471Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
472(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
473
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200474When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
475default one. #4698
476
477When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
478with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
479
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100480Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200481Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100482
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200483Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200484fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
485
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200486Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200487
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200488Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
489- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
490- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100491- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200492
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100493Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200494Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100495
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100496When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
497when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
498gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
499input buffer. (#5302)
500
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200501Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200502
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100503Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
5042007 Feb 18)
505Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
506
507Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
508Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
509
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200510Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
511
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200512Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200513Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
514Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200515
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200516Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
517files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
518Include part of #3242?
519
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200520Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
521Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
522Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
523
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200524Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
525t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
526
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100527Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
528Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
529
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200530'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
531
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100532Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
533
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200534Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
535
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100536When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
537in a long line. #5189
538
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200539The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
540Give a few examples. (#4288)
541
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200542Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200543work, results in "E479: No match". (#4610)
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200544
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02005457 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
546 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
547 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200548Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200549
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100550Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
551read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
552be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
553
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100554Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
555CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
556with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
557fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
558displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
559
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200560Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
561
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200562Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
563
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100564Color schemes:
565NOTE: modernizing the default colorschemes _AND_ introducing new ones is now
566a project in its own right: https://github.com/vim/colorschemes. Feel free to
567reach out if you want to lend a hand.
568- Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
569 https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
570- Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
571 - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200572http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100573- Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
574 - monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
575 - seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
576 - gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
577 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
578 - janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
579 - apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
580- Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
581 - [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
582 - [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
583- Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
584 - Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200585
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100586Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
587Mar 5)
588
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200589Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
590on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
591
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200592Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
593in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
594buffer didn't change at all.
595
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200596Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
597'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
598(#4450)
599
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100600Session file only contains local option values for buffers that are in a
601window, not other buffers. (#7532)
602
603Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
604modified buffers
605 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
606 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
607 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
608 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
609
610When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
611buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
612Should add the buffer in hidden state.
613
614When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
615filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
616initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
617
618Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
619normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
620
621Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
622(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
623
624Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
625that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
626ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
627Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
628
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100629When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
630But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
631similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
632
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200633C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
634(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
635
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100636Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
637added?
638
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200639Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
640negative. (see #4326)
641
642'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
643`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
644tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
645:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
646
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200647This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
648 vim: syn=nosyntax
649
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100650Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
651#2948. (related to #1512?)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100652Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
653Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
654balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
6552018 Sep 14)
656Another request: #3811.
657
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200658More warnings from static analysis:
659https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200660
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100661Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
662
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200663Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
664
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200665Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
666internals of the dict structure.
667
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100668nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
669
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200670Missing tests for:
671- add_termcap_entry()
672
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200673Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
674change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
675them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
676
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200677Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200678Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200679
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100680When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
681case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
682For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
683
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200684Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
685(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
686expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200687
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200688Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
689 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
690 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
691
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100692Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100693punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100694
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200695Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
696drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
697
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100698When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
699scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
700using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
701
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200702Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
703#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
704(Sep 8)
705
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200706Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
707unified diff (list of lines).
708
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100709When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
710kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
711when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
712
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100713Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
714(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100715
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200716matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
71719.
718
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100719Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
720highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200721And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
722'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100723
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100724Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
725Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
726
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200727Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
728Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
729Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
730
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200731home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
732
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200733When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
734terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
735How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
736
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100737Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
738Feedback from someone who uses this?
739
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200740Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
741Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
742values.
743
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100744Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200745- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
746- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
747- omit diff.exe from distribution
748- Can we make this show differences within a line?
749- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200750
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200751Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
752
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100753Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200754What is the practical use for this? Need an example.
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100755
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200756When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
757includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
758
759Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200760Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200761
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100762Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
763
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200764Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
765window for the buffer.
766
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100767Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
768mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
769
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +0000770Compiler warning (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100771- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
772
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100773Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
774Oct 28)
775
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200776Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
777Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100778Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
779Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200780
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200781Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
782
783Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
78424)
785
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100786Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100787 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100788or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100789 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
790
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100791Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
792
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200793Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
794behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
795(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
796
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200797Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
798pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
799
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200800Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
801script or function.
802
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200803When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
804E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
805does nothing otherwise?
806
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200807MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
808If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
809(wait a little while).
810CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100811
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200812Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
813MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
8142017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
815receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
816
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200817Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
818missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
819
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200820":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
821deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
822
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100823Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100824Jan 15, #2555)
825
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200826":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
827
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100828Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
829
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100830No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
831No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
832
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200833Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
834http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
835Should be supported with a flag.
836
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100837Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
838Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
839applying the diff, etc.
840
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100841User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
842word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100843
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100844Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200845
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200846Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
847:drop (remote commands).
848
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200849Implement option_save() and option_restore():
850option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
851 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
852 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
853 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
854 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
855 be called when the same window is the current window.
856 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
857 the local options won't be restored.
858
859option_save({list}) *option_save()*
860 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
861 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
862 let s:saved_options = option_save([
863 \ 'ignorecase',
864 \ 'iskeyword',
865 \ ])
866 au <buffer> BufLeave *
867 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
868< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
869 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
870 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
871 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100872 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
873 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
874 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100875 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200876
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100877"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
878directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
879Also see #1689.
880
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100881When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100882highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100883
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100884No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
8852017 Dec 26, #2501)
886
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200887A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
888
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200889Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
890
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200891A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
892Mention where they were defined somewhere.
893
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200894ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
895
896Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
897
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100898Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
899Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
900
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100901Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
902in #846)
903Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
904
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100905When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
906redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200907
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100908In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
909(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
910
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100911Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
912neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100913
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100914Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
915Nov 21)
916
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100917When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocommand event isn't
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200918triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
919set_color_count().
920
921Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
922responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
923
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100924When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
925CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
926Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
927always nested.
928
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200929matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
930
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100931Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
932
Bram Moolenaar6c391a72021-09-09 21:55:11 +0200933'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
93420)
935
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100936MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100937for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
938
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200939Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100940(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200941
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200942Test more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200943
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200944Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200945
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200946Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
947defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
948Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
949
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200950After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
95113, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200952
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200953When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
954line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
955
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100956Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
957
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200958Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
959behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
960
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100961'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
962
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200963The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
964
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200965Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
966#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
967
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100968The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100969for another buffer. (lacygoill) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100970
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200971X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
972pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
973clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
974Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
975Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
976clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200977Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200978
979Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
980
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200981Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
982attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +0200983that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200984
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200985Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
986(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
987
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100988Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
989buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
990Also fixes #2166?
991
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100992Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
993possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
994
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200995When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
996case of :bwipe followed by :new.
997
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200998Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
999existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1000Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1001
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001002MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1003Jul 4)
1004
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001005Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1006Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1007This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1008Christian cannot reproduce it.
1009
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001010Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1011wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1012Or is this not an actual problem?
1013
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001014Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1015
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001016Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1017
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001018'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1019#1736)
1020
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001021Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
10228, #1690)
1023
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001024Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1025
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001026assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1027it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1028
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001029Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1030for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001031
1032Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1033(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1034Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1035later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1036Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1037mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001038Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1039mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001040maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001041
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001042Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001043plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1044be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1045
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001046Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1047 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1048 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001049
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001050json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001051What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001052
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001053Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1054
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001055import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1056(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1057
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001058Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1059Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001060Another example in #1309
1061
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001062Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1063#1330)
1064
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001065Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1066
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001067Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1068highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1069
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001070Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1071Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1072
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001073Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1074key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1075 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1076 echo keytrans(xx)
1077 <C-Home>
1078
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001079Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1080(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1081Make a function to check for function-like type?
1082
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001083Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1084 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001085 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001086
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001087Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1088somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1089
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001090The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1091"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1092Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1093
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001094Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1095
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001096Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1097about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001098Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1099
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001100":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001101vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1102
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001103Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001104E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001105Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001106
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001107Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1108Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1109
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001110Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001111Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001112
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001113"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1114(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1115
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001116Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1117(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001118
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001119Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1120
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001121Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1122anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1123
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001124Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001125E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001126
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001127Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1128(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1129
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001130Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1131
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001132On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1133separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1134
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001135Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1136
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001137Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1138
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001139Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1140no longer support.
1141
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +02001142Support sort(l, 'F'), convert strings to float. (#7857)
Bram Moolenaar9faec4e2021-02-27 16:38:07 +01001143
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001144sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
11454#1038)
1146
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001147sort() does not use 'smartcase' for the skip pattern, even though 'ignorecase'
1148is used. (Filipe Brandenburger, #7322)
1149
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001150+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001151- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001152- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1153 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1154 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001155- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1156 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001157- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1158 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001159- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1160 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1161- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1162 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1163- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001164- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1165 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001166- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1167- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1168 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1169 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1170- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1171- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1172- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1173 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1174 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1175- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1176 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1177- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1178 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1179 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1180
1181Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001182- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1183 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1184 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1185 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001186- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1187 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001188- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1189 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1190- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1191 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1192- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1193 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1194 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1195 LC_CTYPE
1196- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1197 matches everywhere.
1198- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1199 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1200- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1201- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1202 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1203- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001204- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender,
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001205 2013 Dec 11)
1206- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1207 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1208- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1209- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1210 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1211- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1212- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1213- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1214- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1215 2015 Feb 7)
1216- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1217 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1218 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1219 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1220 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1221- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1222- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1223- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1224- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1225 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1226 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1227 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1228- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1229 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1230- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1231 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1232 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1233 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1234
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001235Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1236doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1237Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001238Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001239E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1240
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001241cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1242
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001243:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1244
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001245Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1246
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001247Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1248Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001249
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001250ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1251Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001252
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001253Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1254Jul 25, #948)
1255
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001256Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1257names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1258Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1259the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1260
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001261MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1262Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001263
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001264Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1265times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1266
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001267Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1268
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001269We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1270the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1271
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001272Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1273
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001274When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1275emoji_width table has only one entry.
1276
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001277It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1278Reject the value? #710.
1279
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001280When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1281Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1282
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001283Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1284No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001285
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001286Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1287(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001288
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001289Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1290
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001291Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1292https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001293Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001294
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001295Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1296but the reference remains valid.
1297
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001298Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001299interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1300Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1301interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1302result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001303
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001304Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1305
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001306Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1307
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001308Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1309Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1310
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001311exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1312Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1313
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001314Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1315'iskeyword' for syntax.
1316
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001317Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1318It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1319Add configure check?
1320Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1321Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1322Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1323
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001324Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1325Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1326
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001327Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1328Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1329
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001330":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1331directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1332
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001333Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1334(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1335
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001336When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1337restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1338Do not trigger the event?
1339
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001340Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1341With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1342
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001343Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001344
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001345Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1346
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001347Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001348Only remembers one error.
1349
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001350GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001351
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001352Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1353(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001354
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001355Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1356github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001357 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001358Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001359
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001360Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001361
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001362Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001363comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001364
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001365Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1366
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001367MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1368wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1369
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001370Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1371specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1372
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001373Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1374(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1375
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001376Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001377'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1378before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001379
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001380C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1381and also line continuation after #include.
1382I can't recommend it though.
1383
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001384Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1385(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1386
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001387To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1388library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1389
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001390Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
139130)
1392
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001393MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1394(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1395
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001396The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
139724): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001398
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001399":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1400effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1401
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001402":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
14039)
1404
1405The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1406wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1407
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001408Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001409Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001410
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001411When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1412the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1413
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001414Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001415slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1416inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1417
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001418ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
14192014 Sep 11)
1420
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001421Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1422(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1423
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001424When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1425'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1426
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001427Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1428Work in progress.
1429
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001430Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1431when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1432
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001433Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1434Is this right?
1435
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001436Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1437(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1438Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1439
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001440Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1441Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001442
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001443Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1444Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1445
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001446Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1447
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001448Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1449
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001450Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1451OK to not block marks?
1452
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001453Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1454
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001455When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1456(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1457
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001458Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001459
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001460Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1461(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1462
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001463When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1464any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1465
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001466Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001467
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001468Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1469(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1470
1471Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1472
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001473Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1474Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1475was already defined.
1476(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1477
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001478Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1479
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001480Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1481(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1482
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001483Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1484(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1485
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001486Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1487
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001488When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1489these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1490window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1491
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001492Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1493should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1494history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1495Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1496
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001497"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1498Jun 8)
1499
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001500Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1501insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1502
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001503No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1504
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001505Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1506(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1507Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1508arguments.
1509
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001510Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1511
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001512Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1513right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001514its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001515
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001516Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1517
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001518This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1519 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1520This neither: (ZyX)
1521 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1522
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001523'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1524Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1525from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001526
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001527Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1528https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001529Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001530Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1531package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001532Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1533Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1534User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001535- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1536 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1537 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001538- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1539- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1540 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1541 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1542 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1543 on vim.org.
1544- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1545 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1546- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1547- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1548- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1549- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1550Implementation:
1551- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1552 plugin separate.
1553- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1554 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1555 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1556- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1557 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1558- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1559 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1560 installing.
1561Out of scope:
1562- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1563- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1564 useful).
1565
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001566When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1567menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1568
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001569Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1570(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1571
1572":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1573various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001574
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001575Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001576(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1577
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001578VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1579instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1580
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001581Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001582Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001583Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001584
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001585Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1586
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001587Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001588
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001589Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1590
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010015917 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1592 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1593 "lucida_console:h8").
1594Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1595
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001596:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1597
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001598Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1599
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001600Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1601
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001602When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1603(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1604
1605Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001606Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001607
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001608Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1609
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001610The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1611(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1612Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1613
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001614Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1615Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1616reliably?
1617
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001618Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1619(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1620
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001621Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1622(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001623Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1624(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1625try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1626try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001627
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001628Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
16292013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001630
1631Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1632
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001633Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1634carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1635
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001636Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1637highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1638
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001639Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001640
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001641Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200164228) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001643
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001644Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1645
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001646- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1647 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1648Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001649
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001650Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001651
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001652Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1653Or use expand('<sid>')?
1654
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001655Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1656
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001657Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1658
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001659b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
16607)
1661
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001662Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1663compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1664
1665Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1666Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1667vim.bindeval().
1668
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001669Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
16702012 Aug 4)
1671
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001672Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1673(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1674
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001675Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1676But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1677
1678Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1679Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1680Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001681
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001682Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1683loading all files.
1684
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001685'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001686
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001687Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001688of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1689
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001690The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1691Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1692But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001693
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001694When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1695is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1696
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001697URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001698- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001699- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1700 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1701
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001702Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001703New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001704
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001705Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1706
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001707Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1708
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001709Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1710Apr 18)
1711
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001712Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1713And one for gui_x11.txt.
1714
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001715":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1716finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1717Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1718
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001719Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1720
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001721Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1722
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001723Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1724they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1725
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001726Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1727
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001728Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1729Nov 20)
1730
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001731Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001732Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001733
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001734`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001735(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1736
1737Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1738
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001739BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1740Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1741
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001742Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1743Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1744
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001745Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1746
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001747On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
17482012 Jun 19)
1749
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001750'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1751'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1752Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001753Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001754
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001755Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1756New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1757
1758Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1759Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1760
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001761Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1762Jan 19)
1763
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001764Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1765discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1766meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001767
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001768"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001769Oct 26)
1770
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001771Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1772
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001773Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1774
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001775When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1776(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1777
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001778When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1779then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1780from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1781
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001782Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1783":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
178415)
1785
1786Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1787
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001788BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1789cleared. See test64.
1790
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001791On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
179264 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1793right type.
1794
1795string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1796(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1797
1798When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1799(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001800When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1801following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1802(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001803
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001804When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1805doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1806
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001807Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1808
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001809When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1810indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1811the help file.
1812
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001813After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1814Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1815
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001816"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001817
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001818Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1819
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001820Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001821
1822Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
18232010 Dec 18)
1824
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001825With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1826number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1827Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1828
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001829Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1830Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1831
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020018328 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1833Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1834
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001835Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1836one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1837the match scrolls into view.
1838
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020018397 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1840Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1841Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1842
18439 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1844 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1845Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1846
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001847Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1848Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1849
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001850In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1851or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1852sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1853
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001854Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1855Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1856
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001857Wish for NetBeans commands:
1858 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1859
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +020018607.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1861there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1862do?
1863
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001864New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1865- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001866- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001867 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1868
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001869"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
18702011 Feb 27)
1871
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001872Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1873^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1874
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001875When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1876exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
18779) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1878
1879g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1880the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1881
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001882Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1883crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1884
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001885Regexp engine performance:
1886- Profiling:
1887 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1888 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1889 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1890 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1891 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1892 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1893- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1894- Performance tests:
1895 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1896 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1897 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1898 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1899 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1900 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1901 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1902 'hlsearch'.
1903 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1904 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1905 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1906 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1907
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001908Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1909Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1910
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001911'beval' option should be global-local.
1912
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001913Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001914
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001915setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001916
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001917With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
19182010 Oct 24)
1919
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001920Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1921
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001922When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1923Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1924
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001925":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1926
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001927'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1928
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001929C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1930checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1931Issue 46.
1932
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001933Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1934gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1935
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001936":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1937accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1938
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001939Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1940setwinvar().
1941
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001942Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001943
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001944When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1945instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1946
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001947Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1948Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1949Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001950
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001951Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001952Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1953
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001954CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1955the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001956FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Philippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001957
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001958Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1959Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1960
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001961Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1962Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1963
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001964Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1965
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001966Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1967non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001968
1969iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1970Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1971or replace with a character and continue?
1972
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001973Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1974Requires configure check for localtime().
1975Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1976
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001977Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1978
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001979Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1980Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1981path.
1982
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001983Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001984Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001985
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001986'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1987
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001988":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1989like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1990
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001991Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1992https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001993
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001994Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1995
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001996Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1997characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1998
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001999Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2000
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002001Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2002 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2003
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002004For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002005line argument -noregister.
2006
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002007When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2008missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2009
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002010When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2011doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002012
2013Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2014(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2015Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2016There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2017Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2018
2019":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2020highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2021to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2022
2023Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2024Probably needs a bit of work.
2025
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002026List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002027Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2028
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002029Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2030
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002031Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2032
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002033Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2034
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002035Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2036on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2037
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002038Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
20392009 Jul 18)
2040
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002041Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2042window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2043Needs more work.
2044
2045Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2046
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002047When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2048few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2049
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002050'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002051(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2052
2053Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2054J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2055
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002056When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2057for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2058
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002059":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2060because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2061ex_docmd.c.
2062
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002063Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002064Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2065
2066string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2067for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2068
2069Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2070
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002071Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
20722009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2073
2074Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2075
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002076Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2077are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2078Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2079Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2080that doesn't have a window.
2081
2082When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2083doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2084
2085getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2086displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2087
2088":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2089
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002090Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2091
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002092Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2093does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2094
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002095opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2096height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002097very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002098
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002099Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002100(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2101
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002102Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2103char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2104
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002105This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2106
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002107Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2108messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2109es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
21102009 Jan 26)
2111
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002112When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002113in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2114Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2115
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002116Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2117a modeline.
2118
2119Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2120Sergey Khorev)
2121
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002122Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2123(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2124
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002125shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002126'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2127Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2128unix-like shell?
2129
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002130Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2131register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2132(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2133
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002134Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2135Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2136
2137Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2138make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2139
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002140When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2141still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2142
2143"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2144(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2145
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002146MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2147doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2148probably causes this.
2149
2150'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020021512009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002152
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002153Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2154":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2155option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2156is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002157
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002158":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2159first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002160Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002161
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002162Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2163anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2164
2165On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2166doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2167Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2168Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2169
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002170When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2171'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2172fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2173the buffer to be unmodified.
2174Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2175another look at it.
2176
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002177c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2178(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2179
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002180You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2181error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2182Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2183at the other match for 0xBF.
2184
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002185When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2186argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2187
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002188Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2189backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2190
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002191When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2192line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2193
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002194":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2195Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2196
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002197When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2198either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2199put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2200
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002201Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2202Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2203Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2204Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2205(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2206
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002207Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2208
2209ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002210
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002211Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2212(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2213escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2214an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002215This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2216July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002217Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2218work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2219
2220When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
222131)
2222
2223Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2224work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2225Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002226
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002227Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002228multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002229(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2230
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002231Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2232Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2233'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2234
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002235Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2236Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2237
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002238Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2239Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2240
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020022418 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2242 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2243 several).
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +02002244
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002245The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002246 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002247 0x2217, star
2248 0x2500, bar
2249 0x26ab, circle
2250
2251Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2252line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2253
2254GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2255Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2256
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002257C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2258with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2259Try to reproduce at work.
2260
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002261Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2262Is there a way to list all the files first?
2263
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002264Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2265(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2266
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002267Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
22681)
2269
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002270":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2271Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2272
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002273Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2274Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2275
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002276When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2277and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2278
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002279Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2280 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2281
2282New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2283
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002284":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2285a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2286
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002287Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2288other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2289
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002290The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2291appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2292matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2293
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002294When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2295character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2296'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2297(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2298
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002299Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2300Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002301
2302More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2303
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002304Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2305http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2306
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002307Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2308No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2309
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002310Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2311terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002312
2313Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2314
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002315Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2316but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2317that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002318
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002319Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2320Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2321
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002322Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2323popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2324size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2325This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2326
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002327When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2328parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2329neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2330particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2331Jun 3)
2332However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2333the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002334
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002335A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2336Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2337
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002338Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2339Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2340
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002341Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2342switch list is noticed:
2343 switch (i)
2344 {
2345 case 1:
2346 foobar:
2347 }
2348
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002349Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2350
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002351Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2352with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2353go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2354moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2355
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002356Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002357GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002358Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2359argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2360(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2361
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002362Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2363(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2364
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002365Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
23662007 Feb 8)
2367
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002368Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2369set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002370
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002371Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2372
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002373Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2374Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2375New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2376patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2377
2378Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2379Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2380
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002381Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002382label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2383
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002384Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2385with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2386Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002387
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002388Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2389
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002390Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2391Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2392only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2393
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002394Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2395Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002396Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002397properly?
2398
2399Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
24002007 Jun 21)
2401
2402When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2403Jun 18)
2404
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002405C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2406
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002407":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2408
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002409When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002410error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002411
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002412GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002413use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2414
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002415Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2416if_ruby.c.
2417
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002418":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2419
2420The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2421it in keep_msg?
2422
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002423Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002424error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002425name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2426
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002427Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2428longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002429
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002430Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2431Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2432Also for ":w" without a file name.
2433The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002434
2435"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2436Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2437
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002438VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2439directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2440(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2441
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002442VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2443
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002444input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2445name?
2446
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002447Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2448
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002449When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2450(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002451Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002452will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2453
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002454gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2455This also fails with --remote.
2456
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002457When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
24582008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2459all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2460
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002461aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2462
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002463When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2464(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2465
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002466Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2467the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2468
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002469GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2470
2471Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2472Jun 5)
2473
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002474Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
24752008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2476Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2477
2478In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2479but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2480Jul 22)
2481
2482There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2483
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002484Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2485moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2486that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2487
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002488The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2489
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002490When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002491cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2492the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2493
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002494These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2495 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2496 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2497 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2498
2499Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2500partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2501
2502In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2503buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2504reload it then?
2505
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002506For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2507
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002508Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2509Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2510
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002511Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2512 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2513 set background=dark
2514This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2515color is, not reset it.
2516
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002517Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2518start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2519show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2520middle?
2521
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002522Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2523
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002524When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2525current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2526the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2527
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002528When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2529Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2530
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002531Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2532Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2533
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002534A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2535Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2536
2537Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2538Dara, 2006 June 21)
2539
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002540Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2541number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2542
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002543After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2544the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2545
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002546Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002547
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002548Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2549Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2550
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002551Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010025522008 Sep 29)
2553
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002554In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2555check the result of has("patch13").
2556
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002557Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2558restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2559
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002560Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2561and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2562
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002563Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2564put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2565
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002566In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2567can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2568
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002569When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2570differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002571
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002572The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2573be only one.
2574
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002575Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002576"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2577name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2578Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002579
2580Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2581(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2582
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002583Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2584as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2585
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002586Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
258723)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002588
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002589":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2590tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2591Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002592
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002593When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2594text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2595latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2596
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002597In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2598VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
25992007 Oct 16)
2600
2601TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2602Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2603
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002604Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002605
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002606When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2607typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2608Sep 3, 11)
2609
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002610":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2611this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2612
2613When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2614Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2615restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2616
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002617Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2618'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2619(Kartik Agaram)
2620
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002621
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002622Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002623- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2624 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2625- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2626 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2627 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2628- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2629 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2630 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002631- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2632- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002633
2634
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002635More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002636- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2637 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002638- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002639- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2640 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002641- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2642- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2643- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2644 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2645 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002646- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002647- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2648 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2649- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2650 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2651- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2652 21)
2653- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2654 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2655- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2656 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +02002657- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill McCarthy, 2008
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002658 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002659- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2660 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2661 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2662 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2663 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002664- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002665
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002666Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000026679 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2668 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2669 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2670 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2671 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2672 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2673 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2674 (Alan Schmitt)
2675 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002676 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2677 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000026789 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002679 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000026808 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000026817 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2682 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2683 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000026848 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002685 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020026867 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002687 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2688- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002689 for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002690- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2691- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2692 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2693 been given values.
2694 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000026957 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2696 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2697- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2698 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2699 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
27008 Add functions:
2701 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2702 Update 2004 Sep 10
2703 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2704 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002705 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002706 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2707 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2708 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2709 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2710 (2003 May 13)
2711 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2712 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002713 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2714 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002715 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2716 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2717 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027187 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2719 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027207 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2721 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000027228 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +02002723 (unencrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027247 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
27258 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2726 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
27277 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2728 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027297 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2730- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2731 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2732 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002733- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2734 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2735- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01002736- Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2737 Await response to question to make the register writable.
2738
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002739
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02002740Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
2741- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
2742 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
2743
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02002744
2745Spell checking:
2746- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap
2747 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away
2748 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line
2749 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col".
2750- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
2751- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single
2752 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
2753 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
2754 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be
2755 downloaded.
2756- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new
2757 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
2758- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers
2759 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2760- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character,
2761 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2762- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2763 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use
2764 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function.
2765
2766
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002767Quickfix/Location List:
2768- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
2769 #2999)
2770- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
2771 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
2772 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
2773 the quickfix buffer?
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002774- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
2775 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
2776- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
2777 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
2778 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002779- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2780- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
2781 2007 Jan 1)
2782- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2783 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
2784- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2785 errors. How do we get the rest?
27868 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2787 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
2788 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
2789 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
27907 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02002791 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002792
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002793Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002794- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2795 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027968 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2797 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2798 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2799 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2800 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2801 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028028 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2803 make Vim exit.
28047 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2805 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2806 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
28078 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2808 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2809 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
28106 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2811 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2812 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
28138 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2814 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2815 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2816 names in one buffer???
2817 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2818 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2819 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
28207 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2821 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2822 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002823 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2824 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028257 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2826 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
28277 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028287 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2829 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2830 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2831 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
28327 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
28337 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
28347 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2835 to the match with the tag? Option?
28367 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
28377 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2838 (Sayre).
28397 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2840 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028417 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2842 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2843 match. Nvi can do it too.
28447 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2845 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2846 line 1\ line 2\\
2847 line 2\ line 3\\
2848 . line4/
28496 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2850 the way the shell is started?
28516 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2852 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2853
2854
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01002855GTK+ GUI:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028569 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028578 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2858 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2859 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000028608 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2861 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2862 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028639 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2864 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2865 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2866 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002867- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2868 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2869 blocked for now.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01002870- Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat,
2871 #7082)
2872- Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
2873 - gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
2874- Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
2875 - Test_setbufvar_options()
2876 - Test_exit_callback_interval()
2877- When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
2878 g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when
2879 the timer expires.
2880- problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width. (Aaron
2881 Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
2882- Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013
2883 May 5)
2884- drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2885 doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2886- tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2887- Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010
2888 Aug 9)
2889- When setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2890 the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2891- when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is maximized
2892 the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but doesn't
2893 work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5. Also: the window may no longer fit
2894 on the screen, thus the command line is not visible.
2895- Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn
2896 Winckler, 2010 Jun 30)
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002897
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002898
2899Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002900- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2901 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029028 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2903 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2904 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029056 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2906 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000029078 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2908 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2909 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029107 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2911 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2912 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029137 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2914 2004 May 9)
29158 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2916 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2917 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2918 MS-Windows 98?
2919 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2920 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2921 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2922 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029238 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2924 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2925 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2926 doesn't work properly.
29278 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2928 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2929 appears in the right position. (Webb)
29309 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2931 button doesn't give popup menu.
2932 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2933 selection.
2934 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2935 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2936 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
29378 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2938 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2939 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2940 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
29418 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2942 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2943 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029447 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2945 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002946 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029477 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2948 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029496 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
29508 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2951 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2952 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
29538 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2954 know which keyboard is being used?
29557 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2956 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2957 area (Koloseike).
29588 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2959 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2960 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2961 the font name).
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01002962- When running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks. Was reported:
2963 cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
2964- Last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2965 command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002966
2967
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01002968Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000029696 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2970 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2971 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2972 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2973 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029749 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2975 required and it's missing?
29768 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2977 wrong.
29789 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2979 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +010029809 XIM doesn't work properly for Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002981 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2982 flag.
29838 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2984 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2985 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
29868 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
29876 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2988 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2989 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2990 the tooltips work though...
29917 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2992 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
29938 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2994 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2995 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2996
2997
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002998Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002999- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030007 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3001 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030028 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3003 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3004 (Phillipps)
3005
3006
3007GUI:
30089 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3009 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
30109 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003011 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003012 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
30139 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3014 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030158 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3016 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3017 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
30188 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3019 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3020 of where it is processing the output.
3021 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
30228 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3023 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010030248 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000030258 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3026 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3027 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020030288 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030298 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3030 browse().
30318 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3032 use that code? Or use console dialog.
30338 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3034 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000030357 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3036 - regexp on/off
3037 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3038 when all buffers/directory is used:
3039 - filter for file name
3040 when directory is used:
3041 - subdirectory on/off
3042 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030438 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3044 to avoid problems.
30458 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3046 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3047 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
30488 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3049 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3050 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
30518 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3052 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030538 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
30547 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3055 visible.
30567 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3057 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
30587 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3059 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
30608 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3061 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
30628 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3063 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3064 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3065 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3066- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
30674 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3068 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3069 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3070
3071
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003072Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000030738 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3074 a good fallback, thus use:
3075 $HOME
3076 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3077 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3078 $USERPROFILE
3079 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3080 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3081 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3082 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030838 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3084 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
30858 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3086 Should work like in the GUI version.
30878 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3088 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
30898 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3090 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
30918 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3092 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3093 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030948 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3095 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3096 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3097
3098
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003099Win32 console:
31009 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3101 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3102 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3103 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3104 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3105 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3106 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3107 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3108 and the file is not saved.
3109 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3110 long name.
31118 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3112 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
31137 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3114 besides the console.
31158 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
31169 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3117 <C-S-i>?
31189 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3119 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
31208 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3121 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003122
3123
3124Amiga:
31258 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3126 sequences.
31279 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3128 backslashes in result.
31298 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3130 all options, using white space separation.
3131
3132
3133Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003134- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031357 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3136 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3137 (Jack)
3138 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031398 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3140 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031418 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
31428 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
31439 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3144 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031459 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003146- Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
3147- Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
3148- Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
3149- Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
3150 try the Cocoa version.
3151- After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
3152 changed or the window is resized.
3153- Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008 Mar
3154 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
3155- trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug 1)
3156 Reply by Ben Schmidt.
3157- Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003158
3159
3160"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003161- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3162 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000031639 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3164 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000031659 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003166 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3167 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031688 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3169 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3170 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003171 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031727 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3173 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
31748 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3175 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3176 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031777 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3178 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003179- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3180 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031818 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3182 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3183 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3184 using the horizontal scrollbar.
31857 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3186 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3187 invocations belong together.
31888 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3189 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
31908 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3191 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3192 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003193 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031948 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3195 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3196 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031977 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3198 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3199 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3200 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032017 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3202 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3203 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
32047 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3205 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3206 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
32077 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3208 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032097 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3210 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032119 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3212 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3213 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3214 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3215 script can be called.
32168 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3217 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3218 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032198 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3220 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000032218 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003222 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3223 configurable?
32248 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032258 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3226 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020032278 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3228 is a multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032298 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3230 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032319 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3232 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3233 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032347 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032358 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3236 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3237 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000032388 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3239 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003240 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3241 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032428 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3243 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
32449 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3245 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3246 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003247 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032487 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3249 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032507 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3251 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3252 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3253 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032548 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003255 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3256 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3257 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3258 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003259 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3260 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003261 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003262 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003263 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3264 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3265 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3266 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3267 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032688 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3269 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
32708 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3271 in lines that don't extend into the block?
32728 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3273 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3274 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
32758 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3276 'linebreak'.
32778 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3278 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3279 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032809 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3281 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3282 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3283 'magic' in history. (Margo)
32849 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3285 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032869 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
32879 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3288 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3289 cause another redraw, etc.
32908 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3291 must escape special characters in the pattern.
32928 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3293 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3294 ":w!!" for that.
3295 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3296 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003297 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032987 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3299 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3300 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3301 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3302 clipboard)
33037 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3304 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3305 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000033066 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3307 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3308 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033098 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3310 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
33118 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3312 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3313 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
33148 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3315 (e.g., ":w").
33168 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3317 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033188 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3319 script in do_cmdline().
33208 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3321 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3322 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3323 changes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033248 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3325 to skip catch_signals()?
33269 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3327 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3328 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3329 text?
33308 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3331 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
33328 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3333 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
33349 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3335 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3336 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3337 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3338 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
33397 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3340 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3341 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3342 in the list?
33438 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3344 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3345 instead of on button down.
33468 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033478 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3348 character is typed.
33498 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3350 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
33518 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3352 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
33538 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3354 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3355 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3356 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3357 cygwin bash.
33587 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3359 Remember flags for backreferences.
33607 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3361 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
33627 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3363 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
33648 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3365 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
33667 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3367 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033687 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3369 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3370 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
33717 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3372 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003373
3374
3375I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
33769 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3377 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3378 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003379
3380
3381Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003382- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3383 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3384 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003385- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3386 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3387 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3388 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3389 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3390 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003391 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003392- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3393 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003394 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003395 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3396 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3397 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003398- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3399 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3400 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3401 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3402 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3403- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3404 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3405 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3406- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3407 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003408- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003409- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3410 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3411 character gets the highlighting.
3412- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3413 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3414- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3415 (Jennings)
3416- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003417- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003418- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003419 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003420- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3421 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3422 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3423- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3424 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3425 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3426 (Benzinger).
3427- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3428 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3429 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3430- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3431 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3432- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3433 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3434- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3435 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3436 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3437 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3438 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3439 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3440- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3441 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3442 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003443- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3444 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3445 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003446- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3447 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3448 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3449- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3450 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3451- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3452 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003453- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3454 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3455- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3456 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3457 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3458 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3459 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3460- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3461 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3462 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3463- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3464 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3465 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003466- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3467 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 +00003468- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3469 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3470 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3471 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3472 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3473- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3474 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3475
3476--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3477 *extensions-improvements*
3478
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003479Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3480- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01003481 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma-separated as if
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003482 calling a function.
3483 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3484 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003485- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3486 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003487 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003488- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3489 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3490 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3491 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3492 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3493 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003494 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003495- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3496 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3497 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003498- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3499 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000035008 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3501 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3502 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3503 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003504- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3505 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003506
3507
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003508Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035098 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3510 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000035118 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3512 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000035138 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3514 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035158 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035169 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3517 - change to cursor position and curswant
3518 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3519 - how it works for folded lines
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003520 - how it works with multibyte characters
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035218 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3522 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3523 text.
35248 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
35257 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3526 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
35277 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3528 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003529 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003530- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3531
3532
3533Help:
3534- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3535 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3536- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3537 to the other matches.
3538- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003539- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3540 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003541 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003542 default contents.
3543- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3544 height for the help window (and other windows).
3545- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3546- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3547- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3548
3549
3550User Friendlier:
35518 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3552 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3553 Briscoe)
35548 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
35558 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3556 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3557 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
35588 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3559 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3560- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3561 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +00003562- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..." #9339
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035639 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3564 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3565 item?).
3566 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035678 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000035687 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3569 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3570 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000035718 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3572 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3573 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3574 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003575
3576
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003577Tab pages:
35789 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035797 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3580 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000035818 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000035828 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000035837 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000035847 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003585 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000035868 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3587 tab pages.
35887 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3589
3590
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003591Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003592- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01003593 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003594- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3595 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3596 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3597- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3598 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003599- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3600 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3601 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003602- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3603 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3604 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003605- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003606 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3607 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000036088 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3609 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
36108 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3611 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
36128 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3613 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003614 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003615 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3616 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3617 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3618 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003619- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3620 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003621- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003622- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3623 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003624- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003625 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003626- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003627 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003628- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3629 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003630- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3631 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3632- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003633 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003634 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3635 in the affix file separately.
3636 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003637 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003638 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3639 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3640 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3641- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3642 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3643 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3644 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3645 Alternative:
3646 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3647 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3648 affix which is required.
3649- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003650 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003651- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3652 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3653 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003654- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3655 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003656- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3657 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3658- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000036598 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3660 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3661 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3662 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003663- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3664 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3665 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3666 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000036678 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3668 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000036698 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
36708 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3671 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000036727 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
36738 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3674 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3675 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3676 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003677
3678
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003679Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020036809 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3681 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020036828 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003683 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003684
3685Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003686 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3687 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaar2d8ed022022-05-21 13:08:16 +01003688- Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
3689 Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
3690 Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
3691 Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
3692- Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
3693- Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
3694 (Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
3695 Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
3696- Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the
3697 line number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
3698- Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe,
3699 2011 Jan 7)
3700- 'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session.
3701 (Teemu Likonen, March 19)
3702- With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't
3703 removed. (Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
3704- The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
3705- When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be
3706 folded. Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding,
3707 2010 Jun 9)
3708- When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
3709 indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous
3710 one. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
3711- Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037128 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3713 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020037148 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
3715 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037168 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3717 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3718 user aware of this?
37198 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3720 commands skip over a closed fold.
37218 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
37228 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037237 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003724- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3725 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3726 missing line goes unnoticed.
3727 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003728- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3729 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3730 smoother?
3731- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3732 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003733- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3734 file can contain:
3735 args version.c main.c
3736 edit version.c
3737 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003738- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003739- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3740 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003741- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3742 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003743- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3744 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003745- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003746
3747Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003748- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3749 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3750 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3751 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037529 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3753 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3754 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3755 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020037569 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3757 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3758 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037598 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3760 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3761 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3762 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3763 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3764 item.
37658 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003766 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3767 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037688 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3769 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037708 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3771 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3772 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037737 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3774 so that the user can fix the problem.
37758 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3776 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037779 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020037788 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters.
37798 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037808 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037817 Searching and composing characters:
3782 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003783 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3784 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037858 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
37868 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020037878 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003788 characters.
37898 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
37908 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3791 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
37927 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3793 'display' option to specify this.
37947 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3795 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3796- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3797 fontselector somehow.
3798- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3799 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3800- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3801 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3802- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3803 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3804 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3805 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3806 if a font exists?
3807- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003808 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003809- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3810 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003811- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003812 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3813 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003814 at a multibyte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003815 Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598)
3816 Scroll doesn't work correctly, why?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003817- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3818 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003819 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003820- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003821 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3822 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3823 But it's very complicated...
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003824- Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai
3825 Weibull, 2008 May 14).
3826 Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003827
3828
3829Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000038307 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003831- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3832- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3833 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003834- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3835 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003836- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3837- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3838 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003839- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3840 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003841- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3842 units as for the margins.
3843- Support right-to-left text?
38448 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3845 color.
3846
3847
3848Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +00003849 Long term goal: faster, better, etc. Options:
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003850 - use treesitter, NeoVim uses it - Many people don't like it.
3851 - use TextMate, vscode uses it. #9087 - possibly a long term solution
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038528 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3853 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
38548 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3855 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
38568 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3857 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000038587 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3859 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038608 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3861 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3862 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038637 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3864 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3865 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038668 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
38679 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3868 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038697 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3870 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000038717 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3872 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038738 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3874 change this for each release.
38758 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3876 pattern, but not in the body.
38778 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3878 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3879 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038808 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010038818 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003882 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3883 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038848 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3885 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
38868 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3887 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003888 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038898 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3890 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3891 used.
38928 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3893 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
38948 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3895 re-insert the [] if possible.
38968 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3897 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000038988 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3899 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3900 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3901 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3902 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039038 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3904 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
39058 Support for deleting syntax items:
3906 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3907 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3908 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
39098 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3910 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3911 a '<'. (Fleiner)
39127 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3913 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3914 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
39157 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3916 detected.
39178 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003918 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039198 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3920 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039218 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
39228 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
39237 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3924 ":mkvimrc".
39258 Improve c.vim:
3926 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3927 "c_strict_ansi".
3928 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
39298 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3930 current line while in Insert mode.
39318 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3932 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
39338 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3934 display position.
39358 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3936 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3937 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
39388 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3939 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3940 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000039417 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3942 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3943 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3944 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3945 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039467 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3947 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3948 E.g. for this html:
3949 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039507 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
39517 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3952 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039537 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3954 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3955 completion?
39568 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3957 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
39587 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3959 select one of the sets.
39608 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3961 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3962 2, etc.
39638 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3964 highlighting (for "." command).
39658 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3966 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
39678 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
39687 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3969 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
39706 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3971 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3972- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3973 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3974- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003975- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3976 (for comment blocks).
3977- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3978 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3979 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3980 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3981 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3982 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3983 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3984 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3985 (Campbell)
3986 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3987 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
39887 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3989 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
39907 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3991 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3992 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
39937 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3994 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3995 messages. And external commands?
39968 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3997 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
39987 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3999 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01004000- Syntax highlight for a region does not work with a "nextgroup" if the
4001 start match is empty. #8449
4002- The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be
4003 useful to support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
4004- Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
4005- Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
4006 highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
4007- patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
4008 Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
4009 Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
4010- Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window
4011 is not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
4012- Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set
4013 to 2, only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman,
4014 2010 Aug 21, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
4015- Using "syn sync breaklines=2" works for when text is changed, but not when
4016 scrolling or redrawing. Should start search for syntax patterns above the
4017 first drawn line. (#8103)
4018- Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
4019- Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb
4020 26)
4021- Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist,
4022 2007 Jul 31)
4023- Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
4024- Open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window, resulting
4025 in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
4026- When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is no
4027 search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004028
4029
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004030Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040318 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4032 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004033 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000040347 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4035 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4036 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004037- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000040387 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4039 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040408 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010040418 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4042 can be the plugin name.
4043 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4044 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040457 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4046 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4047 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4048 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4049 autocommand.
4050 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4051 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4052 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4053 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040547 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4055 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040566 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4057 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040588 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004059 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4060 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004061 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4062 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4063 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004064 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4065 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4066 3 2002
4067 Only add this when also implemented for
4068 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4069 be used.
4070 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004071 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4072 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4073 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4074 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4075 File.Open..." argument.
4076 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4077 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4078 with properties instead.
4079 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4080 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4081 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004082 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004083 crypt() encrypt string
4084 decrypt() decrypt string
4085 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4086 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004087 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004088 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004089 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004090 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004091 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004092 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4093 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004094 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4095 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004096 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004097 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4098 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4099 to allow the library to execute a command or
4100 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041017 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4102 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
41038 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4104 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041058 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4106 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041078 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041086 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000041098 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4110 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041118 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4112 option or environment variable.
41138 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041148 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004115 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000041167 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4117 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041188 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4119 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
41208 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
41218 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4122 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4123 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4124 charwise({expr}).
41257 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4126 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4127 buffer for this?
4128 result = scratch(string, command)
4129 result = apply(string, command)
4130 result = execute(string, command)
4131 "command" would use <> notation.
4132 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
41337 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004134
4135
4136Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000041376 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4138 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4139 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4140 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4141 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4142 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4143 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004144
4145
4146Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041477 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4148 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041497 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4150 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4151 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4152 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041538 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4154 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4155 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4156 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004157 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041588 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
41599 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
41608 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
41617 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4162 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
41638 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4164 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4165 when starting up in a color terminal.
41668 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4167 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041688 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4169 function be improved?
41708 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4171 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4172 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4173 this be improved?
41748 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4175 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000041767 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4177 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041787 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4179 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
41807 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4181 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041827 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4183 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4184 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4185 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4186 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4187 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4188 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041898 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4190 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4191 using strcmp() too often?
41927 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4193 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4194 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4195 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4196 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4197 the two blocks to the memfile block.
41987 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4199 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4200 with an argument that can be messed with.
4201 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4202 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
42037 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4204- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
42058 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4206 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4207- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4208 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4209- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4210- Do profiling on:
4211 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004212 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4213 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4214 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4215 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4216 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4217 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004218 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042197 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4220 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4221 changed).
4222 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4223 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4224- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4225- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4226 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4227- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4228 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4229 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004230- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4231- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4232 cursor is right of the screen.
42338 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4234 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4235
4236
4237Code size:
42388 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4239- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4240 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
42418 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
42428 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4243 it.
42447 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4245 left out.
42468 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4247 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010042488 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004249
4250
4251Messages:
42528 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4253 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
42548 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4255 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
42568 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4257 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004258- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4259 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4260- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
42619 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4262 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4263 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4264 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4265 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042668 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4267 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
42688 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4269 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4270 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4271 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4272 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4273 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004274- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004275 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042768 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4277 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4278 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4279 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4280 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4281 error messages, printing text, etc.
42828 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4283 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4284 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4285
4286
4287Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004288- screen_line():
4289 - insert/delete character stuff.
4290 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4291- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4292 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4293- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4294 waiting for a character.
42958 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4296 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4297 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004298
4299Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020043008 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043016 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4302- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4303 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4304 windows.
43057 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4306 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4307 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4308- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4309 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4310 (Goldfarb)
4311- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4312 bound windows.
4313- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4314 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004315- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004316- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4317 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4318 of lines but not with a single line).
4319
4320
4321Autoconf:
43228 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
43238 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4324 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4325- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4326 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4327- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4328- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4329- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4330
4331
4332Perl interface:
43338 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043347 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
43357 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
43366 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4337
4338
4339Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020043408 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4341 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043426 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4343 :libload internal-name libname
4344 :libunload internal-name
4345 :liblist
4346 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4347 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4348 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
43496 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4350
4351
4352Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000043539 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4354 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4355 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4356 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4357 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043588 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4359 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4360 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004361 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004362 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000043637 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4364 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4365 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043668 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
43678 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4368 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043697 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4370 window for each tag.
43717 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
43727 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4373 bottom" search message.
43747 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4375 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4376 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004377- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4378- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004379- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4380 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4381 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043827 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4383 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4384 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4385 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
43867 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4387 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4388 :tagargs clear
4389 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4390 matching).
43917 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4392 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4393 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4394 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
43957 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4396 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
43977 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4398 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4399 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004400
4401
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004402Win32 GUI:
44038 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4404 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044057 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4406 (Mike McCollister)
44078 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4408 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4409 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4410 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4411 common part of the path.
44128 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
44138 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4414 gettext and menus work.
44158 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4416 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004417 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004418 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
44198 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4420 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
44218 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4422 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
44237 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4424 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
44257 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
44267 <Esc> should close a dialog.
44277 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4428 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4429 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4430 prompts.
44317 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4432 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4433 the file added into an already running Vim.
44347 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4435 functions to find the window title.
4436
4437
4438GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044397 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
44408 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
44416 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
44428 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4443 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
44449 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
44457 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
44468 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4447 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
44488 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4449 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4450 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
44518 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4452 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
44538 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4454 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4455 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4456 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044577 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
44588 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4459 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000044607 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4461 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4462 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044638 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
44648 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004465 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044668 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
44678 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
44688 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4469 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4470 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
44717 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4472 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4473 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
44747 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4475 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
44767 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4477 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4478 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4479 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044807 Should support multi-column menus.
4481- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4482 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4483- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
44848 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
44856 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4486 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
44877 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
44887 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4489 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4490 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
44917 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
44928 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4493 name can be chosen free.
44947 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4495 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
44966 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4497 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4498 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4499 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4500 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4501 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4502 things.
45037 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4504 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045057 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004506 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004507- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4508 where it was started from?
45097 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4510
4511
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004512Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020045139 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4514 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004515- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010045168 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4517 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4518 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4519 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
45208 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4521 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000045227 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4523 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4524 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4525 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000045267 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045278 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4528 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045298 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4530 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4531 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045327 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4533 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4534 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045358 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4536 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4537 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045388 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4539 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045408 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045416 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4542 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045437 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045447 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004545 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4546 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4547 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045485 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4549 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4550 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
45517 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4552 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4553 file.
45548 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4555 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4556 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004557- Add events to autocommands:
4558 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004559 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4560 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004561 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004562 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004563 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004564 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004565 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4566 the char.
4567 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4568 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4569 file from CVS).
4570 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4571 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4572 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4573 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4574 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4575 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004576 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4577 changes.
4578 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4579 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004580- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004581 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004582 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004583 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4584 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4585 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4586 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4587 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01004588- Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
4589 autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
4590 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
4591 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
4592 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
4593 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
4594 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
4595 The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004596
4597
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004598Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004599- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4600 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004601- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4602 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4603 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4604 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4605 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004606- Ideas from others:
4607 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4608 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4609 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4610 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4611 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4612 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4613 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4614 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4615 Uses Perl for C++.
4616 Uses ctags to find the info:
4617 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4618 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4619 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4620 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4621 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4622 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004623 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004624 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4625- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4626
4627
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004628Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004629- Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
4630 (Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
4631- When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline.
4632 (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 23, #1653)
4633- Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
4634- When complete() first argument is before where insert started and
4635 'backspace' is Vi compatible, the completion fails.
4636 (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
4637- The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
4638 - The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
4639 - Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
4640- When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a
4641 number, not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist()
4642 to force a string value.
4643- When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes back to originally
4644 completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
4645 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004646- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000046477 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4648 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046497 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4650 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4651 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046528 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4653 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
46549 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4655 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4656 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046578 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4658 - ignore/match case
4659 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046608 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4661 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4662 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4663 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4664 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4665 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046668 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000046677 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4668 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046698 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4670 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4671 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4672 Should work for C++ and Java.
4673 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
46747 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
46757 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4676 instead of words.
46778 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
46788 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4679 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
46808 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4681 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004682- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4683 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004684- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4685 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4686 wildcards in the file name)?
4687- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4688- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4689- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4690 be in another file).
4691- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4692- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4693- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4694 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4695- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4696- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4697- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004698- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4699
4700
4701Command line editing:
47027 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4703 line.
47048 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4705 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4706 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4707- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4708 lines wraps to start of line).
4709- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4710 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4711 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4712 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4713 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4714 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4715 cmdwin does now already.
4716 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4717 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4718 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4719 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4720 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4721 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4722 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4723 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4724 Problems:
4725 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4726 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4727 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4728 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4729 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4730 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4731 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4732 character in first column?
4733 - Implementation ideas:
4734 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4735 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4736 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4737 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4738 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4739 Mode.
4740
4741
4742Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004743- Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary.
4744 (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1350)
4745- Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the
4746 matching command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047478 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
47488 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4749 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
47508 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4751 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047528 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4753 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047547 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4755 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004756- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4757- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4758 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047598 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4760 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
47617 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4762 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4763- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4764 identifiers (Webb).
47658 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4766 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
47677 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4768 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4769- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4770 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4771- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4772 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4773 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar47c532e2022-03-19 15:18:53 +00004774- With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
4775 entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe,
4776 2011 Feb 12)
4777- After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting
4778 E33 (no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'",
4779 the command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
4780- Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now
4781 and then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding
4782 include files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
4783 Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
4784 indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
4785 ":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|,
4786 like in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find
4787 very quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier
4788 fix. (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
4789- Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
4790 only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
4791- Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through
4792 directory tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a
4793 directory that doesn't contain other directories.
47948 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
4795 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
47968 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
47978 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
4798- Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
4799 laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1) Works
4800 OK with Vim in an xterm.
4801- If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't
4802 work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004803
4804
4805Command line history:
4806- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4807 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4808 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004809 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004810- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4811 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4812
4813
4814Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000048159 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4816 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4817 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048188 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4819 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4820 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4821 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4822 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048238 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4824 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4825 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048267 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4827 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004828- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048297 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4830 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4831- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4832 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4833 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4834 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4835 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4836 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4837- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4838 Normal mode.
4839- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4840 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4841 are used.
4842- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4843- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4844- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4845
4846
4847'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010048489 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4849 char * veryLongName =
4850 "very long string"
4851 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048528 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048538 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4854 long_type foo =
4855 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048568 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4857 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004858 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048598 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4860 func(
4861 new String[] {
4862 "asdf",
4863 "asdf"
4864 }
4865 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048668 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4867 (Chow Loong Jin)
4868 namespace {
4869 int
4870 func(int arg) {
4871 }
4872 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048736 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4874 func( arg1
4875 , arg2
4876 , arg3
4877 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000048787 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004879 func(
4880 int x) // indent like "(4"
4881 {
4882 if (a
4883 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048849 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4885 if (a)
4886 {
4887 if (b)
4888 {
4889 // {
4890 }
4891 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004892 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4893 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4894 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004895- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004896 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
48977 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4898- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4899 line).
4900- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4901- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4902 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004903- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4904 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4905- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4906 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4907- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4908- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4909 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
49108 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4911 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4912 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4913- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4914- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4915 lines start with "\item".
4916- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4917 /* here is a comment that
4918 is just autoindented, and
4919 nothing else */
4920- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
49217 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4922 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4923 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004924 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004925
4926
4927Java:
49288 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4929 Odendahl?
49308 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4931 "[i" commands and friends.
4932- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4933 (Jason)
4934- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4935 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4936
4937
4938'comments':
49398 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4940 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4941 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4942 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004943 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4944 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049457 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4946 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
49477 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
49486 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4949 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4950 regexp is used.
49518 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4952 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4953
4954
4955Virtual edit:
49568 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049577 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4958
4959
4960Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049618 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049628 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000049638 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004964 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020049658 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004966 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004967 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4968 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020049698 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049708 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4971 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049728 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4973 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4974 the end of the line or before a ".".
49757 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4976 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
49777 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4978 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049796 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
49805 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4981 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4982 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4983 cursor is on.
4984
4985
4986Select mode:
49878 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4988 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
49897 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004990 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049917 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4992 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4993 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4994 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4995 normal_cmd().
4996 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4997 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4998
4999
5000Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020050018 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5002 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005003- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5004 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5005 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005006- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5007 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5008 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050098 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005010 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005011 where needed.
50127 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5013 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
50147 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5015 of each selected line.
50168 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
50178 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5018 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5019 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
50208 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5021 Ben Godfrey)
50227 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5023 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
50247 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5025 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050267 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005027 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005028 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
50298 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5030 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
50317 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5032 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5033 option!
50347 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5035 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5036 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5037 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5038 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5039 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5040 without changing the column.
50416 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050427 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5043 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050446 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5045 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
50466 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050476 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005048 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005049 or other special character.
50506 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5051
5052
5053More advanced repeating commands:
5054- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005055- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005056- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005057 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5058 "y." will repeat last yank.
5059 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5060 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5061 and/or pick an older command.
5062- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5063
5064
5065Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050668 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5067 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5068 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
50698 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
50707 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5071 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050728 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5073 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
50748 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000050757 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050768 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5077 entering search strings.
50788 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5079 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5080 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050818 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5082 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010050837 Add <0x8f> (hex), <0o33> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050847 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5085 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050866 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5087 abbreviations are to be used.
5088- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5089 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5090 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005091- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5092 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5093 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5094 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5095 Or implicit:
5096 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005097- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5098 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5099 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005100- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5101 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5102- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5103 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
51046 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5105 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5106 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5107 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005108- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5109 non-replace Insert mode?
5110- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005111- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5112- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5113 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5114- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005115 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005116- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5117 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5118- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5119- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5120 ":freekeys".
5121- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5122
5123
5124Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005125- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5126 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5127- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5128 folds when going to another line.
5129 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5130- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5131 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005132- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5133 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5134 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005135- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5136 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5137 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5138 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020051399 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5140 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005141
5142
5143Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010051449 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000051458 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005146 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005147 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005148 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005149 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051509 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5151 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051528 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5153 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000051548 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5155 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5156 Perl does it this way:
5157 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5158 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5159 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5160 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051618 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5162 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5163 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000051647 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5165 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000051668 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5167 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000051687 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005169 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5170 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5171 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000051727 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005173 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051747 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5175 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051768 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5177 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
51788 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5179 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020051807 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005181 example.
51828 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5183 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5184- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5185 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5186 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5187 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051888 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5189 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5190 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
51917 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5192 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000051937 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5194 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051958 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5196 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051978 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5198 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051998 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5200 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5201 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5202 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005203- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5204 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005205- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5206 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5207- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5208 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5209 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5210 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052118 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5212 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005213- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5214 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052158 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5216 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5217 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005218- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5219 i ignore case
5220 I use case
5221 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5222 v use Vi regexp syntax
5223 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5224 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5225 Perl uses these too:
5226 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5227 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5228 o compile only once (Perl only)
5229 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5230 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5231 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5232 following command.
5233 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5234- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5235 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5236 for search string)?
52377 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5238 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5239- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5240 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5241- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5242 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5243- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5244- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005245 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005246 a for the next file in the argument list
5247 f for file in the buffer list
5248 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005249 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5250 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005251 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5252 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5253- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052547 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005255 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052567 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5257 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5258 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5259 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
52606 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5261 effects.
52627 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5263 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5264 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000052657 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005266 Also ":dselect".
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005267- Searching for \%'> does not find anything when using line Visual
5268 selection. Probably because it's using MAXCOL. #8238
5269- Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
5270 /\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
5271- Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett
5272 Stahlman, 2014 Jun 8)
5273- Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega,
5274 2010 Nov 22)
5275- Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin
5276 R. Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
5277- When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it
5278 may result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen,
5279 2009 Apr 16)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005280
5281
5282Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010052839 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5284 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5285 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052869 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5287 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020052888 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5289 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052908 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5291 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5292 timestamp?
5293 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5294 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005295- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5296 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005297- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5298 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5299 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
53008 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5301 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5302 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5303 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
53048 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5305 only remember the lines that really changed.
53067 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5307 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5308 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5309 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005310- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5311 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5312- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5313 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5314- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5315 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5316 [-99].
5317- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5318- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005319- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5320 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005321- MS-Windows: when writing undo file the infostreams are copied in
5322 mch_copy_file_attribute(), that seems unnecessary. (#7925) Add a flag to
5323 only copy attributes?
5324- undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
5325- After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it
5326 causes corruption. (#6631)
5327- When the computer crashes while writing the undofile, the contents may be
5328 lost. Write to a temp file, fsync and rename. (#8879)
5329- Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
5330- Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426) ex_next()
5331 should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd(). Is there a test for
5332 this?
5333- Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
5334- Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
5335- Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013
5336 oct 3. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
5337 Also see #1635.
5338- When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
5339 synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
5340- The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
5341 For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
5342- Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
5343 possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
5344- Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian
5345 Brabandt, 2010 Nov 5)
5346- There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to
5347 what was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break
5348 inserted perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
5349- When using 'cryptmethod' xchaha20 the undo file is not encrypted.
5350 Need to handle extra bytes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005351
5352
5353Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053547 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5355 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5356 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5357 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020053588 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005359 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
53608 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5361 inode too.
53627 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005363 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5364 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053657 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5366 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5367- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5368 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5369- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5370 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
53717 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5372 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
53737 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5374 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
53758 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053767 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5377 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010053788 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5379 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5380 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005381- When using ":bwipe!" also get rid of references to be buffer, e.g. in the
5382 jumplist and alternate file.
5383- ":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but
5384 it goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
5385 unlisted. (#4478)
5386- :buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp
5387 error. (#5467)
5388- Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before
5389 and is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
5390- Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If
5391 there is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc.
5392 To be used for git temp files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005393
5394
5395Swap (.swp) files:
53968 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5397 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5398 there are short file name problems.
53998 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5400 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
54018 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
54028 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005403 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005404 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5405 file the same as the actual file?
5406 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054077 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5408 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
54097 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005410 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005411 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5412 enough room.
54137 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5414 or /var/preserve.
5415- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5416 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5417- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005418 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005419- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5420 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5421 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5422 cached list of which line is where.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005423- When editing a file with ":edit" the output of :swapname is relative,
5424 while editing it with "vim file" it is absolute. (#355) Which one should
5425 it be?
5426- When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile.
5427 Then a command can delete it.
5428- In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of
5429 the process that is running. It might actually be some other program,
5430 e.g. after a reboot.
5431- When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to
5432 wait for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
5433 Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
5434- After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
5435 correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
5436- In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about
5437 what each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005438
5439
5440Viminfo:
54417 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5442 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5443 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000054448 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5445 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5446 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054478 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5448 name. (Schild)
54498 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
54508 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054518 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054528 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5453 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5454 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5455 this?
54567 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
54577 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5458 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
54596 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5460 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5461 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5462- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5463 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005464- Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
5465- Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows
5466 about, it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017
5467 Jun 19, #1781)
5468- Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be
5469 read back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
5470- When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and
5471 reading it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
54728 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
5473 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
54748 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
5475 check for file marks. This can be slow.
54768 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
5477 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
5478 that the user knows the files have to be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005479
5480
5481Modelines:
54828 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5483 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5484 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005485- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5486 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5487 'shiftwidth'.
5488- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5489 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005490- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5491 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5492 modeline setting.
5493- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5494 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5495- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5496 .cpp files.
5497- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5498 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02005499- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005500 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5501
5502
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005503Sessions:
55048 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5505 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
55067 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5507 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055088 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5509 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055108 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5511 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5512 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000055137 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5514 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000055157 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005516
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005517
5518Options:
55197 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5520 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055218 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01005522 options that are a comma-separated list. The old number values should
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005523 also be supported.
55248 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5525 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5526 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
55277 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005528
5529
5530External commands:
55318 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5532 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
55334 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5534 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5535 -f).
55364 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
55374 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5538 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
55394 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5540
5541
5542Multiple Windows:
55437 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
55448 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5545 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
55467 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5547 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5548 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000055497 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5550 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000055517 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5552 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055536 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5554 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005555 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005556 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
55577 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5558 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5559 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5560 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5561- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5562 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5563 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5564 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5565
5566
5567Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055688 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055698 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5570 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000055718 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 +000055728 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5573 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
55748 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5575 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5576 the mark was set.
55777 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5578 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5579 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5580 ":browse marks"?
55816 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055827 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5583 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
55847 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5585 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
55867 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5587 command).
55887 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5589 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5590 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5591 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
55925 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5593 mappings.
55946 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5595 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5596 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5597
5598
5599Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020056007 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005601 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005602- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5603 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000056048 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056057 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5606 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5607
5608
5609Writing files:
5610- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5611 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5612 shortname conversion.
56138 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
56148 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5615 file.
56168 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5617 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5618 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056196 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5620 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
56216 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5622 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
56236 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5624 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000056258 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005626 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
56277 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5628 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010056297 When editing a file, check that it has been changed outside of Vim more
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005630 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5631 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5632 waiting for a character to be typed).
56338 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5634 line of the window, like "[time]".
5635 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5636 Automatic and/or with a command.
5637
5638
5639Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000056408 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5641 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000056428 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005643 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5644- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5645- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
56468 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5647 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005648- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005649 :s///N substitutes N times.
5650- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5651 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5652 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
56537 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5654 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5655 last line column 5.
56565 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5657 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5658 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5659 (Stanislav Sitar)
5660
5661
5662Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056638 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
56647 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
56658 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5666 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5667 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005668- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5669- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5670 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5671- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5672- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5673
5674
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005675Argument list:
56766 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5677 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5678 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
56796 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5680
5681
5682Registers:
56838 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056848 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5685 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5686 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005687- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5688 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5689- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5690 leader when line wraps?
5691- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5692 line in the range.
5693- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5694 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
56958 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5696 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005697- In Select mode the deleted text always goes into the unnamed register.
5698 Use CTRL-R to specify the register to use. (#9531)
5699- When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
5700 register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
5701 (#6435)
5702- Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi,
5703 2018 Apr 26, #2849)
5704- Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
5705 registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
5706- With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for
5707 empty register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
5708- Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked
5709 text part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
57106 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5711 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5712 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5713 Also do this for the small delete register "-.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005714
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005715
5716Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057178 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000057188 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057197 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
57207 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005721- In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping
5722 through the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
5723
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005724
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005725Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000057267 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5727 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5728 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5729 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5730 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5731 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5732 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005733 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000057347 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5735 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000057367 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5737 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057388 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5739 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000057407 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5741 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5742 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005743- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005744 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010057457 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5746 window as a buffer-tab selection.
57478 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057487 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5749 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
57508 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5751 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057526 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057538 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5754 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5755 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5756 in this Vim.
57578 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005758 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057598 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5760 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5761 have it apply to the following command.
57628 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5763 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5764 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5765 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057667 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5767 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057687 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5769 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5770 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5771 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057726 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
57738 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
57749 Support ACLs on more systems.
57757 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5776 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057777 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5778 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5779 (truncated to fit in the space).
57807 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
57818 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
57828 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5783 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000057847 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005785 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
57867 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5787 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057887 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057897 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
57907 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057918 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
57928 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5793 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5794 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5795 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
57968 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057978 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057988 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5799 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5800 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5801 does something like this. (Shah)
58027 Use growarray for replace stack.
58037 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5804 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
58053 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058067 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5807 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010058087 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5809 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005810- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5811- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5812- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5813- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
58147 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5815 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5816- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5817 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005818- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005819- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5820 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5821- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5822 call "play newbeep.au").
5823- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5824 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5825 (Bhatt).
5826- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5827 blockwise registers).
5828- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5829 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5830- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5831 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5832 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5833 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005834- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058357 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5836 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5837- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5838 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5839 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5840 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5841 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000058428 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5843 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058448 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5845 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5846 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5847 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5848 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5849- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02005850- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058517 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5852 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5853- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5854 not in column 1.
58556 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5856 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
58577 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5858- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005859- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005860 :redir #> bufname
5861 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005862- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5863 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005864- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5865 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5866 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
58676 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5868 console? (Klaus Hast)
5869- Add :delcr command:
5870 *:delcr*
5871 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5872 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5873 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5874 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5875 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02005876 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005877- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5878- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5879 characters from 'isprint'.
5880- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5881- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5882 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5883- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5884 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5885 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5886- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5887- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5888 Nvi).
5889- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5890 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
58917 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5892- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5893 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
58946 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5895- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5896 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5897 macro).
5898- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005899- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5900 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5901- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
59028 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005903- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5904- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5905- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5906 if it is not the first or last window.
5907- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5908 there is one) instead of the file itself.
59097 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5910 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5911 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5912- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5913- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005914 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005915 many percent down the windows).
5916- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5917 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5918 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005919 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005920- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5921 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5922- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5923 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5924- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5925- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5926- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5927 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059288 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5929 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5930 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5931 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5932 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005933- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5934 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5935- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005936 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5937- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005938 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5939 (Webb).
5940- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005941 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005942- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5943 hex codes like 0xff).
5944- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5945 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5946 the last TYPED command.
5947- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5948- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5949- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5950 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005951- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059528 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5953 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5954 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005955- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005956 trailing '.'.
5957- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5958 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5959 find_file_in_path().
5960- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5961 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5962- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5963- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5964 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5965- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005966 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005967- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5968 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5969 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005970- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5971- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5972- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5973 to the minimal size.
5974- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5975- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5976- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5977- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5978- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005979- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5980 entered)?
5981- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5982 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005983- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005984- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5985- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5986- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5987- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5988- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5989 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005990- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059918 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5992 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5993 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5994 or in octal.
59957 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5996 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005997- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005998 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5999- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6000- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6001 insert line command).
6002- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6003- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6004- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6005- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6006- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6007 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006008- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006009 yet.
6010- Implement 'redraw' option.
6011- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6012 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060137 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6014 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006015 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6016 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060178 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6018 do it.
6019- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6020- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6021 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6022- Add text justification option.
6023- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6024- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6025 off".
6026- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6027- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6028- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006029 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006030- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006031- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006032- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6033 commands.
6034- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6035- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6036- :table command (Webb)
6037- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006038- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6039- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6040- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6041- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6042- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6043 (Demirel).
6044- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6045- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6046 for use in macro's and the like.
6047- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006048 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006049- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006050 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006051- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006052 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006053 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6054- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6055 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006056- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006057 mkopttab to make option table?
6058- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6059 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6060- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6061 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006062- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006063 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6064- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6065 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006066- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000060678 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6068 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6069 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6070 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6071 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060728 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6073 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6074 (Netherton)
60756 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6076 space after "(", for example.
60775 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6078 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6079 (Servatius Brandt)
6080
6081
6082From Elvis:
6083- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6084- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006085- Search patterns:
6086 \@ match word under cursor.
6087 but do:
6088 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6089 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
60908 ":window" command:
6091 :win + next window (up)
6092 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6093 :win - previous window (down)
6094 :win -- idem, wrapping
6095 :win nr to window number "nr"
6096 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
60977 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6098 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6099
6100
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006101From xvi:
6102- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6103- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6104
6105
6106From vile:
6107- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6108- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6109 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6110
6111
6112Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006113- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6114 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006115 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006116 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6117 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006118- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6119 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6120- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6121 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6122 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6123 current layout mirrored.
6124- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6125- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6126 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6127- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6128- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6129 font in each top-level window.
6130- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6131- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6132- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6133- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6134 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006135- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6136 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6137- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6138 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
61394 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6140 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6141 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6142 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006143 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006144 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6145 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6146- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6147 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6148 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6149
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006150vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006151vim: set fo+=n :