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Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.0. Last change: 2018 Mar 16
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 Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035 *known-bugs*
36-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
37
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020038Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +010039- Still some stuff to implement and bugs to fix, see src/terminal.c
40- Crash when using popup menu while balloon is visible?
41- Test_terminal_qall_kill_func if flaky
42- Drop options argument of term_dumpdiff() / termp_dumpload() ?
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +010043
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +010044Mode message isn't updated on vertical split. (Alexei Averchenko, 2018 Feb 2,
45#2611)
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +010046
47Errors found with random data:
48 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +010049
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +010050Implement option_save() and option_restore().
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Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010052Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
53- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
54- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
55- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010056- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
57
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +010058Mouse pointer sticks to stop shape. Only on Windows GUI? #2709
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Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +010060balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
6120, #2481)
62Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +020063
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +010064Try out background make plugin:
65 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
66or asyncmake:
67 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
68
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +010069Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
70mode. Also used for switching Terminal mode.
71
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +010072Cursor in status line after search. (#2530)
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74Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
75
76Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
77
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +010078Does setting 'cursorline' cause syntax highlighting to slow down? Perhaps is
79mess up the cache? (Mike Lee Williams, 2018 Jan 27, #2539)
80
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +020081When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
82with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020083
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +010084Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +010085Jan 15, #2555)
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Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +010087Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
88
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +010089No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
90No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
91
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +010092When 'inchsearch' and 'hlsearch' are set /\v highlights everything.
93Also see #2337
94
95Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
96confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
97
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +010098Patch to add "module" to quickfix entries. (Marcin Szamotulski, Coot, 2017 Jun
998, #1757) Now part of #2322. Or #2327? #1757 was re-opened, include that
100first.
101
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100102Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
103
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100104Avoid that "sign unplace id" does a redraw right away, esp. when there is a
105sequence of these commands. (Andy Stewart, 2018 Mar 16)
106
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100107ch_sendraw() with long string does not try to read inbetween, which may cause
108a deadlock if the reading side is waiting for the write to finish. (Nate
109Bosch, 2018 Jan 13, #2548)
110
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100111Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
112Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
113applying the diff, etc.
114
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100115User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
116word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100117
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100118Problem with mouse scroll in tmux. (fcying, #2419) Might be caused by patch
1198.0.1309. Removing "held_button = MOUSE_RELEASE;" helps. (2018 Feb 5)
120
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100121Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200122
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200123With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
124(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
125
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200126Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
127:drop (remote commands).
128
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100129"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
130directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
131Also see #1689.
132
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200133ml_get error when using a Python. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
Bram Moolenaar3ec574f2017-06-13 18:12:01 +0200134Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200135
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100136crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
13717, #2652)
138
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100139When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100140highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100141
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100142Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
143#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
144
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100145Patch to add winlayout() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018 Jan 4)
146
147No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
1482017 Dec 26, #2501)
149
150Get a "No Name" buffer when 'hidden' is set and opening a new window from the
151quickfix list. (bfrg, 2018 Jan 22, #2574)
152
153A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
154
Bram Moolenaar2f058492017-11-30 20:27:52 +0100155Patch to fix E806. (Dominique, 2017 Nov 22, #2368)
156Kazunobu Kuriyama: caused by XtSetLanguageProc().
157
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100158Patch to fix GUI find/replace dialog. (kiloliter, 2017 Dec 11, report in
159#2418, fix in #2435)
160
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100161Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
162(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
163
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200164ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
165
166Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
167
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100168Patch to fix encoding in print document name (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2017 Dec 20,
169#2478)
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Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100171Patch to copy buffer-local options before buffer leaves the window. (Bjorn
172Linse, 2017 Nov 14, #2336)
173
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100174Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
175Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
176
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100177Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
178in #846)
179Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
180
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100181When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
182redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200183
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100184In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
185(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
186
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100187Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
188Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
189
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100190Patch to fix cmdline abbreviation after '<,'>. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Nov
19113, on issue #2320)
192
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100193Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
194neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100195
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200196Default install on MS-Windows should source defaults.vim.
197Ask whether to use Windows or Vim key behavior?
198
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100199Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
200Nov 21)
201
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100202When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
203CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
204Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
205always nested.
206
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200207matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
208
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100209Patch to add variable name after "scope add". (Eddie Lebow, 2018 Feb 7, #2620)
210Maybe not needed?
211
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100212Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
213
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100214MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100215for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
216
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100217Patch to adjust to DPI setting for GTK. (Roel van de Kraats, 2017 Nov 20,
218#2357)
219
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200220Test runtime files.
221Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200222
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200223Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200224
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200225Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
226defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
227Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
228
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200229After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
23013, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200231
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200232Illegal memory access, requires ASAN to see. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jul 28)
233Still happens (2017 Jul 9)
234
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200235When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
236line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
237
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100238The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
239
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200240Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200241Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100242Memory leaks in test_escaped_glob
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200243
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200244Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
245
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100246Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
247
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200248Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200249It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100250Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200251Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200252
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200253Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
254
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200255Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
256behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
257
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100258'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
259
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200260All functions are global, which makes functions like get() and len() awkward.
261For the future use the ~get() and ~len() syntax, e.g.:
262 mylist~get(idx)
263 mydict~get(idx)
264 mystring~len()
265Alternatives for ~:
266 ^ list^get() could also be used
267 . list.get() already means concatenate
268 $ list$get() harder to read
269 @ list@get() harder to read
270 -> list->get() two characters, used for lambda
271
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200272The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
273
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100274When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
275a command can delete it.
276
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200277Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
278#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
279
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100280The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
281for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
282
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200283X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
284pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
285clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
286Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
287Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
288clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200289Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200290
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100291Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
292http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
293http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
294Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
295- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
296- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
297- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
298 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
299- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
300- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
301Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
302- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
303- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
304Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
305- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
306
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200307Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
308
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200309Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
310attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
311that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
312
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200313Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
314(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
315
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200316Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
317Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
318terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
319Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
320(Also #1890)
321
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100322Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
323buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
324Also fixes #2166?
325
326Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
327
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200328Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
329stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
330
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100331Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
332possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
333
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100334Add `:filter` support for various commands (Marcin Szamotulski, 2017 Nov 12
335#2322) Now in #2327?
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +0100336
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200337When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
338case of :bwipe followed by :new.
339
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200340Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
341existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
342Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
343
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200344Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200345
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200346MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
347Jul 4)
348
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200349Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
350Drucker, 2017 May 8).
351This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
352Christian cannot reproduce it.
353
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200354Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
355wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
356Or is this not an actual problem?
357
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200358Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
359
360Openhab syntax file (mueller, #1678)
361
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200362Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
363
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200364Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
365
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200366'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
367#1736)
368
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200369Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
3708, #1690)
371
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100372Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
373manager. Problem with Motif?
374
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200375Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
376(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
377
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200378Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
379it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
380
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200381Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
382Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
383How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
384
385Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
386(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
387
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100388Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
389
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200390Patch to add configure flags to skip rtl, farsi and arabic support.
391(Diego Carrión, #1867)
392
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200393assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
394it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
395
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200396New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
397
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100398Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
399for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200400
401Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
402(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
403Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
404later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
405Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
406mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200407Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
408mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200409maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200410
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100411Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200412plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
413be defined when the plugin is loaded.
414
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100415Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
416 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
417 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100418
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200419json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200420What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100421
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200422Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
423
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200424import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
425(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
426
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100427When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
428buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
429Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100430
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100431When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist, behave
432like the item was not a match for :cnext.
433
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200434Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
435Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100436Another example in #1309
437
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100438When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
439when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
440
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100441Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
442#1330)
443
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200444Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
445
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100446Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
447
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100448GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
449g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
450timer expires.
451
452Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
453
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100454Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
455highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
456
4578 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
458 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
459
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100460Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
461Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
462
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200463Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
464key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
465 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
466 echo keytrans(xx)
467 <C-Home>
468
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100469Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
470(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
471Make a function to check for function-like type?
472
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200473Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
474(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
475
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100476Implement optional arguments for functions.
477 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
478 call Foo(12)
479 call Foo(12, all = 0)
480 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100481
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200482Change the Farsi code to work with UTF-8. Possibly combined with the Arabic
483support, or similar.
484Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
485
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100486Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
487somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
488
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100489Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
490(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
491
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200492Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
493Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
494New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
495
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200496Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200497Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200498Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200499
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200500Characters deleted on completion. (Adrià Farrés, 2017 Apr 20, #1645)
501Remarks from Christian Brabandt (Apr 21)
502
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100503The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
504"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
505Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
506
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200507Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
508
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200509Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
510about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200511Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
512
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +0200513Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
514#1053) With patch, does it work?
515
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100516Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
517MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
5182017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
519receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
520
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200521":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100522vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
523
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200524Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
525Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100526
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100527Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
528Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
529
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200530Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100531Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200532
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100533"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
534(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
535
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100536Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
537(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100538Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100539
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200540'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
541
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100542Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
543
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200544Patch to be able to separately map CTRL-H and BS on Windows.
545(Linwei, 2017 Jul 11, #1833)
546
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200547When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
548Apr 23, #1653)
549
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200550Using an external diff is inefficient. Not all systems have a good diff
551program available (esp. MS-Windows). Would be nice to have in internal diff
552implementation. Can then also use this for displaying changes within a line.
553Olaf Dabrunz is working on this. (10 Jan 2016)
5549 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
555 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
556 It's complicated and badly documented.
557
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100558Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
559anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
560
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100561When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that item.
562Make a difference being at the first item and not having used :cnext at all.
563(Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
564
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200565Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200566E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200567
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +0200568Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
569(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
570
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200571Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
572
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100573Patch to add trim() function. (Bukn, 2016 Nov 25, #1280)
574
575Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
576
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100577Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
578
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100579On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
580separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
581
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200582min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
583contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
584
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200585Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
586
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200587Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
588
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200589Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
590
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200591Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
592no longer support.
593
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200594sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
5954#1038)
596
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100597+channel:
598- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
599 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100600- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
601- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
602 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
603- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
604 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
605- Implement |job-term| ?
606- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
607- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
608 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
609 minute. Option to set the droptime.
610- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
611- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
612- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
613 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
614 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
615- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
616 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
617- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
618 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
619 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
620
621Regexp problems:
622- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
623 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
624- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
625 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
626- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
627 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
628 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
629 LC_CTYPE
630- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
631 matches everywhere.
632- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
633 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
634- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
635- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
636 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
637- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
638- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
639 2013 Dec 11)
640- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
641 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
642- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
643- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
644 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
645- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
646- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
647- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
648- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
649 2015 Feb 7)
650- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
651 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
652 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
653 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
654 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
655- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
656- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
657- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
658- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
659 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
660 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
661 col and vcol when moving to another line.
662- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
663 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
664- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
665 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
666 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
667 (2017 May 15, #1252)
668
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200669Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
670
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100671Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
672#1350)
673
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200674Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
6753. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
676Also see #1635.
677
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200678Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200679Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
680use the current behavior.
681Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200682
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200683Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
684New update 2017 Apr 10, #1628
685
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200686When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
687command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
688
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100689Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
690change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
691
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200692Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
693doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
694Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100695Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200696E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
697
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100698execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200699#1141)
700
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200701cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
702
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200703:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
704
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200705Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
706
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100707patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
708(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
709
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200710When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
711synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
712
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200713Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
714Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +0200715
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200716Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
717(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
718
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200719ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
720Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200721
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100722Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
723
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200724Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100725(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200726
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200727Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
728Jul 25, #948)
729
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100730Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
731names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
732Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
733the system encoding (usually utf-8).
734
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200735Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
736(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
737Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
738
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200739'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
740
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200741MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
742Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200743
744Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
745Also for ":@.".
746
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200747Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
748
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200749Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
750#1125
751
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200752Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
753times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
754
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200755This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
756(Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
757
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200758Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
759
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200760Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
761
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200762Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
763
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200764Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
765
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +0100766We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
767the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
768
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +0200769Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
770
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200771When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
772emoji_width table has only one entry.
773
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100774It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
775Reject the value? #710.
776
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200777Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
778set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
779
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200780When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
781Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
782
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200783Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +0200784Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200785
786Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200787
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200788Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
789No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200790
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200791Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
792(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100793
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200794Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
795
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100796Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
797https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
798Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
799
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100800Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
801but the reference remains valid.
802
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100803Need to try out instructions in INSSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
804interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
805Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
806interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
807result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200808
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100809Duplication of completion suggestions for ":!hom". Issue 539.
810Patch by Christian, 2016 Jan 29
811>
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200812Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100813work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200814
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100815Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
816
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200817Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
818
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +0200819Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
820Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
821
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200822When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
823Apr 17) #762
824
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200825exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
826Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
827
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100828Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
829'iskeyword' for syntax.
830
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100831Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
832(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
833
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100834Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
835
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200836When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
837maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +0200838Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200839
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100840Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
841It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
842Add configure check?
843Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
844Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
845Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
846
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100847Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
848Do not include the linebreak at the start?
849
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +0200850Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
851Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
852Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
853
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200854Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
855Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
856
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100857Access to uninitialized memory in match_backref() regexp_nda.c:4882
858(Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 6)
859
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100860":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
861directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
862
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100863In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
864(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
865
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +0200866If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
8672016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200868
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100869Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
870(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
871
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100872Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200873Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100874
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100875Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
876Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
877
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200878Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
879
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200880When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
881restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
882Do not trigger the event?
883
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200884Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
885changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
886and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100887Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
888Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
8896, 2nd message)
890Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100891
Bram Moolenaar681baaf2016-02-04 20:57:07 +0100892Patch to fix that executable() may fail on very long filename in MS-Windows.
893(Ken Takata, 2016 Feb 1)
894
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100895Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
896Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
897https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
898
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100899Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
900With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
901
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200902Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100903
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +0100904Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
905
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +0100906Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +0100907Only remembers one error.
908
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200909Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
910
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +0200911Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
912(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200913
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +0100914Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
915github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100916 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100917Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100918
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +0100919When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
920triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
921set_color_count().
Bram Moolenaar2c5e8e82015-12-05 20:59:21 +0100922
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200923Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200924
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +0100925Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100926comparing individual items.
927Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
928Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
929Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
930equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
931
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +0100932Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
933
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100934MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
935wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
936
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100937Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
938specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
939
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +0100940Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
941(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
942
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200943Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200944inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200945
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100946Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
947(Luchr, #277)
948
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100949Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200950'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
951before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100952
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +0200953C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
954and also line continuation after #include.
955I can't recommend it though.
956
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100957Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
958(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
959
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100960Patch to add arguments to argc() and argv(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2016 Jan
96124) Also need a way to get the global arg list? Update later on Jan 24
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200962Update Mar 5. Update Apr 7. Update Jun 5.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100963
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +0100964To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
965library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
966
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100967When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
968is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
969
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +0100970Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
97130)
972
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +0200973MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
974(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
975
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200976The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
97724): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100978
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200979":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
980effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
981
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +0200982":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
9839)
984
985The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
986wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
987
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200988Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200989Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +0200990
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100991When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
992the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
993
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200994Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +0200995slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
996inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
997
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200998ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
9992014 Sep 11)
1000
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001001Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1002(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1003
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001004When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1005'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1006
1007Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001008(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001009Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
1010- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
1011 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
1012 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
1013- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
1014 covered by the above change.
1015So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +01001016same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001017Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001018
1019Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1020Work in progress.
1021
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001022Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1023when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1024
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001025Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1026Is this right?
1027
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001028Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1029(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1030Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1031
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001032Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1033Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001034
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001035Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1036Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1037
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001038Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1039
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001040When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1041filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1042initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1043
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001044Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1045
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001046Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1047OK to not block marks?
1048
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001049Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1050
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001051Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1052
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001053When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1054(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1055
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001056Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001057
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001058Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1059(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1060
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001061When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1062any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1063
1064Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001065
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001066Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001067
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001068Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny,
10692015 Feb 6.
1070
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001071Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
1072Is this a good solution?
1073
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001074Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1075(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1076
1077Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1078
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001079Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1080Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1081was already defined.
1082(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1083
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001084Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1085
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001086Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001087Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001088Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001089Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001090
1091Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001092
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001093Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1094(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1095
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001096Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1097(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1098
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001099Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +01001100Update 2018 March 12, #2711
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001101
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +01001102Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
1103change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
1104them: ":repeats".
1105
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001106Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1107
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001108When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1109these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1110window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1111
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001112Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1113should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1114history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1115Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1116
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001117"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1118Jun 8)
1119
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001120Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1121insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1122
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001123No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1124
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001125Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1126(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1127Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1128arguments.
1129
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001130Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1131
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001132Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001133
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001134Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
11350x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1136New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1137compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1138
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001139xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1140buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1141Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001142Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001143Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001144Also see issue #609.
1145We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001146
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001147Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1148right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001149its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001150
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001151Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001152What for systems that don't have unsetenv()? (Issue #1116)
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001153
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001154Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1155
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001156This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1157 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1158This neither: (ZyX)
1159 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1160
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001161'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1162Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1163from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001164
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001165Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
11662014 Jun 8)
1167
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001168Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001169Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001170Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1171Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1172User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001173- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1174 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1175 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001176- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1177- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1178 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1179 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1180 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1181 on vim.org.
1182- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1183 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1184- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1185- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1186- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1187- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1188Implementation:
1189- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1190 plugin separate.
1191- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1192 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1193 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1194- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1195 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1196- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1197 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1198 installing.
1199Out of scope:
1200- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1201- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1202 useful).
1203
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001204Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1205normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001206
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001207When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1208menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1209
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001210Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1211(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1212
1213":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1214various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001215
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001216Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001217(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1218
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001219VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1220instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1221
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001222Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001223Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001224
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001225Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001226command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001227
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001228Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1229
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001230Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1231highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001232
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001233The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1234For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1235
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001236Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001237possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001238
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001239Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001240
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001241Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
1242
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001243Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1244
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001245Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001246Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001247
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010012487 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1249 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1250 "lucida_console:h8").
1251Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1252
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001253:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1254
1255Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001256With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001257
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001258Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1259
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001260Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1261
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001262When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1263(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1264
1265Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
1266Dec 13.
1267
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001268GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1269(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1270
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001271Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1272registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1273
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001274Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1275
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001276The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1277(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1278Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1279
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001280The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1281- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1282- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1283
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001284Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1285Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1286reliably?
1287
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001288Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1289(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1290
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001291Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1292(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1293
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001294Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
12952013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001296
1297Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1298
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001299Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
13005)
1301
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001302Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1303carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1304
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001305Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1306highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1307
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001308Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001309
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001310Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200131128) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001312
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001313Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
1314optional. (2013 Jul 12)
1315
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001316Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1317
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001318Improve the installer for MS-Windows. There are a few alternatives:
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001319- Add silent install option. (Shane Lee, #751)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001320- Installer from Cream (Steve Hall).
1321- Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen)
1322 https://github.com/gpwen/vim-installer-mui2
1323- make it possible to do a silent install, see
1324 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1325 Version from Guopeng Wen does this.
1326- MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
1327- The one on Issue 279.
1328Problem: they all work slightly different (e.g. don't install vimrun.exe).
1329How to test that it works well for all Vim users?
1330
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001331Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1332
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001333- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1334 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1335Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001336
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001337Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001338
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001339In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1340process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1341a reboot.
1342
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001343patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1344
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001345Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1346not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001347
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001348Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1349Or use expand('<sid>')?
1350
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001351Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1352
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001353Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001354
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001355Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
1356
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001357Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1358
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001359b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
13607)
1361
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001362Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1363compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1364
1365Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1366Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1367vim.bindeval().
1368
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001369Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
13702012 Aug 4)
1371
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001372Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1373(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1374
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001375Patch to add new regexp classes :ident:, :keyword:, :fname:.
1376(ichizok, 2016 Jan 12, #1373)
1377
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001378Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1379But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1380
1381Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1382Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1383Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001384
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001385Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1386loading all files.
1387
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001388MS-Windows resizing problems:
1389- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1390 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1391- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1392 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1393 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001394
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001395'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001396
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001397Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001398of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1399
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001400The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1401Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1402But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001403
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001404Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
1405Aug 16)
1406
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001407When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1408is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1409
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001410URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001411- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001412- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1413 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1414
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001415Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1416(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1417Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1418
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001419Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001420New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001421
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001422When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1423for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1424Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001425
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001426Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
1427
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001428Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
142924)
1430
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001431Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1432
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001433Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1434
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001435Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1436Apr 18)
1437
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001438Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1439And one for gui_x11.txt.
1440
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001441":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1442finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1443Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1444
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001445Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1446
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001447Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1448
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001449Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1450they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1451
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001452Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1453
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001454Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1455Nov 20)
1456
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001457Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001458Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001459
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001460`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001461(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1462
1463Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1464
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001465BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1466Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1467
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001468Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1469Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1470
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001471Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1472
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001473On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
14742012 Jun 19)
1475
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001476'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1477'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1478Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001479Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001480
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001481With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1482(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1483need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1484
1485Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1486only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
148721, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1488
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001489The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1490support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1491
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001492'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1493highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1494
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001495Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1496New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1497
1498Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1499Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1500
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001501Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1502Jan 19)
1503
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001504Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1505discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1506meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001507
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001508"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001509Oct 26)
1510
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001511Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1512
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001513With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1514register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001515
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001516Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1517
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001518When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1519(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1520
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001521When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1522then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1523from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1524
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001525Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1526":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
152715)
1528
1529Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1530
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001531BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1532cleared. See test64.
1533
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001534Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001535effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001536Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
1537
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001538On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
153964 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1540right type.
1541
1542string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1543(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1544
1545When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1546(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001547When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1548following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1549(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001550
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001551When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1552doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1553
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001554Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1555
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001556maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1557mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1558
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001559Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1560(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1561
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001562When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1563indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1564the help file.
1565
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001566After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1567Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1568
1569Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1570
1571"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1572
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001573Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1574
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001575Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001576
1577Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
15782010 Dec 18)
1579
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001580With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1581number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1582Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1583
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001584Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1585Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1586
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020015878 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1588Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1589
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001590Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1591one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1592the match scrolls into view.
1593
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020015947 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1595Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1596Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1597
15989 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1599 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1600Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1601
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001602Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1603Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1604
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001605In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1606or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1607sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1608
1609GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1610doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1611
1612GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1613
1614Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1615Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1616
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001617Wish for NetBeans commands:
1618 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1619
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001620Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1621
16227.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1623there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1624do?
1625
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001626Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
162722)
1628
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001629New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1630- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001631- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001632 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1633
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001634"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
16352011 Feb 27)
1636
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001637Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1638^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1639
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001640When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1641exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
16429) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1643
1644g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1645the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1646
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001647Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1648crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1649
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001650Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
1651number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
1652
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001653Regexp engine performance:
1654- Profiling:
1655 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1656 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1657 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1658 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1659 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1660 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1661- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1662- Performance tests:
1663 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1664 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1665 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1666 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1667 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1668 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1669 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1670 'hlsearch'.
1671 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1672 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1673 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1674 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1675
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001676Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1677Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1678
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001679'beval' option should be global-local.
1680
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001681Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001682
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001683setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001684
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +020016857 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
1686 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
1687 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001688 Is this an update: related to: #179
1689 https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/backupdir
1690 Fixed patch 2017 Jul 1.
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001691
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001692With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
16932010 Oct 24)
1694
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001695Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1696
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001697When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1698Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1699
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001700":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1701
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001702'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1703
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001704C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1705checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1706Issue 46.
1707
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001708Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1709
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001710Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1711gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1712
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001713":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1714accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1715
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001716Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1717setwinvar().
1718
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001719Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1720
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001721When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1722instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1723
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001724Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1725Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1726Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001727
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001728Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1729back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1730
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001731Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001732Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1733
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001734CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1735the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1736FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1737
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001738Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1739Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1740
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001741Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1742Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1743
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001744I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1745Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1746an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001747
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001748Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1749
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001750Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1751non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001752
1753iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1754Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1755or replace with a character and continue?
1756
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001757Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1758Requires configure check for localtime().
1759Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1760
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001761Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1762Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1763
1764Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1765
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001766Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1767Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1768path.
1769
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001770Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001771Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001772
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001773'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1774
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001775":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1776like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1777
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001778Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1779https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001780
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001781Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
17822010 Nov 5)
1783
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001784Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001785Jan 7)
1786
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001787Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1788Only with "vim -u NONE".
1789
1790Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1791
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001792With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1793entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1794Feb 12)
1795
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001796Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1797characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1798
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001799Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1800
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001801Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1802 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1803
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001804Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1805
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001806When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1807Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1808
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001809When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1810not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1811string value.
1812
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001813For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001814line argument -noregister.
1815
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001816When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1817missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1818
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001819When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1820doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001821
1822Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1823(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1824Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1825There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1826Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1827
1828":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1829highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1830to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1831
1832Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1833Probably needs a bit of work.
1834
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001835Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1836Added test, updates, June 23.
1837Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1838With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1839Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1840
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001841List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001842Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1843
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001844Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1845
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001846Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1847
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001848Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1849Sep 1)
1850
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001851Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1852
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001853Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1854on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1855
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001856Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
18572009 Jul 18)
1858
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001859Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1860window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1861Needs more work.
1862
1863Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1864
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001865When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1866few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1867
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001868'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001869(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1870
1871Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1872J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1873
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001874When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1875for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1876
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001877Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1878
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001879Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1880
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001881":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1882because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1883ex_docmd.c.
1884
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001885Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001886Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1887
1888string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1889for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1890
1891Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1892
1893'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
189420)
1895
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001896Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
18972009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1898
1899Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1900
1901Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1902SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1903
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001904When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1905indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1906(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1907
1908Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1909are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1910Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1911Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1912that doesn't have a window.
1913
1914When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1915doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1916
1917getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1918displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1919
1920":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1921
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001922There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1923was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1924perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1925
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001926Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1927
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001928Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1929command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1930
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001931Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1932does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1933
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001934opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1935height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001936very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001937
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001938Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1939(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1940
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001941Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001942(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1943
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001944Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1945char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1946
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001947Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1948Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1949
1950This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
1951
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001952Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1953messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1954es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
19552009 Jan 26)
1956
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001957When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001958in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1959Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1960
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001961Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1962a modeline.
1963
1964Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1965Sergey Khorev)
1966
1967Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1968part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001969
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001970After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1971correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1972
1973Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1974(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1975
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001976shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001977'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1978Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1979unix-like shell?
1980
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001981Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1982register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1983(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1984
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001985Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1986Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1987
1988Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1989make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1990
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001991When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1992still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1993
1994"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1995(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1996
1997Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1998
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001999Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2000that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2001ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2002Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2003
2004Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002005Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002006
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002007MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2008doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2009probably causes this.
2010
2011'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020020122009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002013
2014Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2015 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2016 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2017(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2018
2019Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2020":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2021option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2022is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002023
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002024":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2025first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002026Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002027
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002028Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2029laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2030Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002031
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002032Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2033anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2034
2035On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2036doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2037Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2038Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2039
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002040When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2041'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2042fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2043the buffer to be unmodified.
2044Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2045another look at it.
2046
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002047c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2048(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2049
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002050You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2051error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2052Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2053at the other match for 0xBF.
2054
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002055When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2056argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2057
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002058Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2059backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2060
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002061When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2062line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2063
2064Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2065position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2066
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002067After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2068(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002069command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002070
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002071":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2072Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2073
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002074When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2075either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2076put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2077
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002078Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2079Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2080Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2081Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2082(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2083
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002084Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2085
2086ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002087
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002088Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2089(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2090escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2091an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002092This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2093July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002094Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2095work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2096
2097When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
209831)
2099
2100Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2101work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2102Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002103
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002104Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2105multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2106(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2107
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002108Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
21092008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002110Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002111
2112Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2113Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2114'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2115
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002116Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2117Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2118
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002119Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2120Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2121
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020021228 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2123 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2124 several).
2125 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2126 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2127 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2128Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2129
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002130The utf class table is missing some entries:
2131 0x2212, minus sign
2132 0x2217, star
2133 0x2500, bar
2134 0x26ab, circle
2135
2136Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2137line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2138
2139GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2140Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2141
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002142Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2143try the Cocoa version.
2144
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002145Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2146changed or the window is resized.
2147
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002148GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2149the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2150
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002151Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2152Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002153
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002154Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
21551) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2156
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002157C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2158with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2159Try to reproduce at work.
2160
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002161Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2162Is there a way to list all the files first?
2163
2164When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2165result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
216616)
2167
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002168Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2169(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2170
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002171Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2172Await response to question to make the register writable.
2173
2174Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
21751)
2176
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002177In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2178each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2179
2180try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2181
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002182try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2183
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002184":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2185Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2186
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002187Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2188
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002189Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2190Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2191
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002192Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2193Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2194Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002195
2196C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
2197(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
2198
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002199When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2200and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2201
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002202Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2203 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2204
2205New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2206
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002207":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2208a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2209
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002210'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2211Likonen, March 19)
2212
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002213Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2214other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2215
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002216The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2217appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2218matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2219
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002220When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2221character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2222'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2223(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2224
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002225Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2226Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002227
2228More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2229
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002230Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2231http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2232
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002233Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2234back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2235Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002236
2237Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2238No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2239
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002240Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2241terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002242
2243Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2244
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002245Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2246but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2247that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002248
2249When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2250
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002251Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2252Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2253
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002254Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2255popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2256size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2257This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2258
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002259When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2260it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2261
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002262Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2263then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2264files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002265Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2266indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2267":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002268in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2269quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002270Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002271
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002272When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2273parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2274neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2275particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2276Jun 3)
2277However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2278the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002279
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002280A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2281Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2282
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002283Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2284Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2285
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002286Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2287switch list is noticed:
2288 switch (i)
2289 {
2290 case 1:
2291 foobar:
2292 }
2293
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002294Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2295
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002296Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2297with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2298go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2299moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2300
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002301Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
2302Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
2303Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2304argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2305(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2306
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002307Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2308(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2309
2310Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2311makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2312.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
2313 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
2314
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002315Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
23162007 Feb 8)
2317
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002318Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2319set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002320
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002321Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2322
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002323Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2324Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2325New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2326patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2327
2328Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2329Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2330
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002331Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
23322007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002333Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002334
2335Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002336label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2337
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002338Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2339with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2340Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002341
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002342Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2343
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002344Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2345Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2346only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2347
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002348Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2349Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002350Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002351properly?
2352
2353Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
23542007 Jun 21)
2355
2356When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2357Jun 18)
2358
2359If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2360
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002361Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2362windows. (Adam George)
2363
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002364F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2365modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2366K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002367
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002368In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2369the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2370
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002371C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2372
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002373":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2374
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002375When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002376error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002377
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002378Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
2379use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2380
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002381Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2382if_ruby.c.
2383
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002384":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2385
2386The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2387it in keep_msg?
2388
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002389Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002390error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002391name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2392
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002393Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2394longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002395
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002396Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2397Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2398Also for ":w" without a file name.
2399The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002400
2401"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2402Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2403
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002404VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2405directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2406(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2407
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002408VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2409
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002410input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2411name?
2412
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002413Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2414
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002415When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2416(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2417Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2418will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2419
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002420gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2421This also fails with --remote.
2422
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002423When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
24242008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2425all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2426
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002427aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2428
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002429When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2430(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2431
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002432Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2433the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2434
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002435GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2436
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002437Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2438superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2439
2440Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2441character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2442
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002443Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2444Jun 5)
2445
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002446Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
24472008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2448Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2449
2450In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2451but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2452Jul 22)
2453
2454There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2455
2456Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2457":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2458somehow? Or use a new function.
2459
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002460Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2461
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002462Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2463moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2464that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2465
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002466The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2467
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002468When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002469cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2470the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2471
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002472These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2473 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2474 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2475 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2476
2477Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2478partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2479
2480In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2481buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2482reload it then?
2483
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002484For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2485
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002486Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2487only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2488
2489Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2490tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2491doesn't contain other directories.
2492
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002493Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2494Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2495
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002496Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2497 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2498 set background=dark
2499This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2500color is, not reset it.
2501
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002502Linux distributions:
2503- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2504 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2505 xfree-xterm".
2506- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2507
2508Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2509start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2510show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2511middle?
2512
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002513Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2514
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002515When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2516current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2517the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2518
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002519When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2520Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2521
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002522Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2523 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2524 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2525 - getting colors in xterm
2526 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2527
2528Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2529Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2530
2531Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2532
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002533A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2534Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2535
2536Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2537Dara, 2006 June 21)
2538
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002539Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2540number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2541
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002542After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2543the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2544
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002545Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002546
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002547Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2548Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2549
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002550Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010025512008 Sep 29)
2552
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002553In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2554check the result of has("patch13").
2555
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002556Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2557restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2558
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002559Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2560and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2561
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002562Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2563put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2564
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002565Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2566resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2567
2568In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2569can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2570
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002571GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2572maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2573doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002574Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2575visible.
2576
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002577When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2578differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002579
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002580The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2581be only one.
2582
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002583Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002584"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2585name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2586Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002587
2588Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2589(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2590
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002591Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2592as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2593
2594Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2595Jan 1)
2596
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002597Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
259823)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002599
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002600":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2601tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2602Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002603
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002604When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2605text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2606latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2607
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002608Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2609no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2610
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002611In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2612VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
26132007 Oct 16)
2614
2615TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2616Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2617
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002618Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002619
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002620When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2621typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2622Sep 3, 11)
2623
2624When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2625respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2626the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2627what happens for the GUI.
2628
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002629":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2630this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2631
2632When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2633Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2634restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2635
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002636Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
26372010 Jun 30)
2638
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002639Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2640'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2641(Kartik Agaram)
2642
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002643
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002644Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002645- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2646 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2647- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2648 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2649 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2650- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2651 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2652 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002653- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2654- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002655
2656
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002657More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002658- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2659 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002660- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002661- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2662 patch May 10)
2663- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2664 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2665- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2666 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2667- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2668- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2669- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2670 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2671 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002672- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002673- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2674 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2675- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2676 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2677- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2678 21)
2679- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2680 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2681- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2682 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002683- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2684 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002685- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2686 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2687 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2688 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2689 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002690- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002691
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002692Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000026939 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2694 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2695 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2696 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2697 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2698 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2699 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2700 (Alan Schmitt)
2701 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002702 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2703 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000027049 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002705 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000027068 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027077 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2708 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2709 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027108 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002711 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020027127 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002713 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2714- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2715 for multi-byte characters.
2716- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2717- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2718 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2719 been given values.
2720 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
27218 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002722 with an ESC sequence.
2723 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2724 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2725 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027267 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2727 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2728- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2729 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2730 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
27318 Add functions:
2732 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2733 Update 2004 Sep 10
2734 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2735 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002736 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002737 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2738 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2739 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2740 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2741 (2003 May 13)
2742 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2743 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002744 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2745 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002746 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2747 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2748 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027497 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2750 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2751- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2752 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
27537 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2754 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000027558 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2756 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027577 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
27588 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2759 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
27607 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2761 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027627 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2763- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2764 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2765 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002766- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2767 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2768- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2769
2770
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002771Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002772- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2773 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027748 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2775 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2776 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2777 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2778 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2779 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027808 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2781 make Vim exit.
27827 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2783 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2784 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
27858 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2786 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2787 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
27886 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2789 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2790 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
27918 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2792 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2793 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2794 names in one buffer???
2795 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2796 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2797 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
27987 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2799 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2800 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002801 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2802 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028037 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2804 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
28057 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
28067 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028077 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2808 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2809 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2810 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
28117 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
28127 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
28137 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2814 to the match with the tag? Option?
28157 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
28167 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2817 (Sayre).
28187 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2819 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028207 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2821 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2822 match. Nvi can do it too.
28237 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2824 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2825 line 1\ line 2\\
2826 line 2\ line 3\\
2827 . line4/
28286 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2829 the way the shell is started?
28306 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2831 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2832
2833
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002834GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028359 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028368 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2837 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2838 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000028398 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2840 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2841 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028429 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2843 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2844 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2845 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002846- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2847 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2848 blocked for now.
2849
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002850
2851Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002852- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2853 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028548 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2855 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2856 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
28578 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2858 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028596 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2860 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000028618 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2862 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2863 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028647 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2865 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2866 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028677 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2868 2004 May 9)
28698 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2870 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2871 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2872 MS-Windows 98?
2873 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2874 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2875 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2876 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028778 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2878 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2879 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2880 doesn't work properly.
28818 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2882 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2883 appears in the right position. (Webb)
28849 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2885 button doesn't give popup menu.
2886 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2887 selection.
2888 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2889 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2890 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
28918 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2892 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2893 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2894 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
28958 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2896 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2897 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028987 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2899 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2900 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
29017 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2902 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002903 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029047 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2905 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029066 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
29078 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2908 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2909 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
29108 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2911 know which keyboard is being used?
29127 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2913 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2914 area (Koloseike).
29158 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2916 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2917 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2918 the font name).
2919
2920
2921Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000029226 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2923 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2924 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2925 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2926 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029279 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2928 required and it's missing?
29298 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2930 wrong.
29319 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2932 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000029339 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002934 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2935 flag.
29368 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2937 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2938 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
29398 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
29406 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2941 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2942 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2943 the tooltips work though...
29447 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2945 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
29468 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2947 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2948 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2949
2950
2951Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010029529 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2953 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029549 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2955 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2956 through files.
29577 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2958 read long file names. (Schroeder)
29594 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2960 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2961 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2962 problem during a refresh.
29635 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2964 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2965 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2966 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2967 colors as it should.
2968 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2969 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2970
2971
2972Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002973- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029747 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2975 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029768 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2977 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2978 (Phillipps)
2979
2980
2981GUI:
29829 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2983 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
29849 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002985 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002986 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
29879 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2988 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
29898 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2990 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
29918 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2992 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2993 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
29948 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2995 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2996 of where it is processing the output.
2997 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
29988 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2999 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010030008 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000030018 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3002 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3003 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020030048 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030058 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3006 browse().
30078 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3008 use that code? Or use console dialog.
30098 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3010 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000030117 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3012 - regexp on/off
3013 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3014 when all buffers/directory is used:
3015 - filter for file name
3016 when directory is used:
3017 - subdirectory on/off
3018 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030198 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3020 to avoid problems.
30218 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3022 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3023 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
30248 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3025 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3026 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
30278 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3028 up. Set erase character somehow?
30298 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3030 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3031 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3032 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
30338 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
30347 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3035 visible.
30367 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3037 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
30387 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3039 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
30408 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3041 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
30428 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3043 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3044 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3045 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3046- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
30474 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3048 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3049 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3050
3051
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003052Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000030538 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3054 a good fallback, thus use:
3055 $HOME
3056 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3057 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3058 $USERPROFILE
3059 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3060 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3061 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3062 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030638 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3064 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
30658 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3066 Should work like in the GUI version.
30678 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3068 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
30698 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3070 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
30718 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3072 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3073 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030748 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3075 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3076 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3077
3078
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003079Win32 console:
30809 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3081 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3082 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3083 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3084 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3085 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3086 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3087 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3088 and the file is not saved.
3089 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3090 long name.
30918 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3092 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
30937 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3094 besides the console.
30958 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
30969 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3097 <C-S-i>?
30989 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3099 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
31008 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3101 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003102
3103
3104Amiga:
31058 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3106 sequences.
31079 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3108 backslashes in result.
31098 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3110 all options, using white space separation.
3111
3112
3113Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003114- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031157 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3116 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3117 (Jack)
3118 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031198 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3120 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031218 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
31228 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
31239 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3124 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031259 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003126
3127
3128"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003129- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3130 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003131- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3132 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003133- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3134 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3135 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3136 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3137 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3138 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3139 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000031409 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3141 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000031429 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003143 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3144 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031458 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3146 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3147 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003148 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031497 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3150 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
31518 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3152 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3153 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031547 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3155 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003156- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3157 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031588 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3159 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3160 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3161 using the horizontal scrollbar.
31627 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3163 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3164 invocations belong together.
31658 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3166 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
31678 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3168 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3169 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003170 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031718 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3172 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3173 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031748 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3175 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031767 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3177 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3178 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3179 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031807 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3181 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3182 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
31837 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3184 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3185 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
31867 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3187 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031887 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3189 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031909 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3191 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3192 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3193 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3194 script can be called.
31958 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3196 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3197 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031988 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3199 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000032008 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003201 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3202 configurable?
32038 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032048 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3205 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032068 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3207 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032088 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3209 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032109 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3211 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3212 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032137 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032148 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3215 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3216 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000032178 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3218 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003219 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3220 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032218 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3222 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
32239 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3224 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3225 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003226 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032277 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3228 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032297 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3230 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3231 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3232 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032338 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003234 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3235 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3236 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3237 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003238 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3239 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003240 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003241 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003242 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3243 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3244 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3245 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3246 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032478 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3248 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
32498 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3250 in lines that don't extend into the block?
32518 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3252 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3253 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
32548 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3255 'linebreak'.
32568 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3257 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3258 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032599 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3260 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3261 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3262 'magic' in history. (Margo)
32639 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3264 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
32659 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
3266 isn't updated).
32679 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
32689 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3269 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3270 cause another redraw, etc.
32718 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3272 must escape special characters in the pattern.
32738 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3274 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3275 ":w!!" for that.
3276 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3277 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003278 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032797 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3280 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3281 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3282 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3283 clipboard)
32847 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3285 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3286 Waggoner)
32878 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
3288 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
3289 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000032906 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3291 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3292 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032938 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3294 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
32958 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3296 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3297 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000032988 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032998 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3300 (e.g., ":w").
33018 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3302 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033038 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3304 script in do_cmdline().
33058 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3306 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3307 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3308 changes.
33098 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3310 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
33118 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3312 check for file marks. This can be slow.
33137 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3314 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3315 needed.
3316 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
33178 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3318 to skip catch_signals()?
33199 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3320 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3321 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3322 text?
33238 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3324 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
33258 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3326 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
33279 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3328 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3329 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3330 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3331 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
33327 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3333 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3334 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3335 in the list?
33368 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3337 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3338 instead of on button down.
33398 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
33409 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3341 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003342 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3343 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033448 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3345 character is typed.
33468 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3347 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
33488 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3349 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
33508 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3351 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3352 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3353 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3354 cygwin bash.
33557 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3356 Remember flags for backreferences.
33577 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3358 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
33597 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3360 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
33618 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3362 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
33637 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3364 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033657 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3366 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3367 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
33687 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3369 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
33708 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3371 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3372 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
33737 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3374 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003375
3376
3377I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
33789 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3379 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3380 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003381
3382
3383Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003384- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3385 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3386 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003387- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3388 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3389 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3390 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3391 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3392 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003393 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003394- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3395 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003396 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003397 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3398 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3399 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003400- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3401 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3402 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3403 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3404 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3405- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3406 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3407 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3408- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3409 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003410- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003411- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3412 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3413 character gets the highlighting.
3414- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3415 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3416- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3417 (Jennings)
3418- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
3419- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3420 errors. How do we get the rest?
3421- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003422- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003423 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003424- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3425 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3426 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3427- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3428 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3429 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3430 (Benzinger).
3431- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3432 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3433 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3434- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3435 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3436- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3437 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3438- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3439 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3440 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3441 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3442 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3443 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3444- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3445 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3446 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003447- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3448 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3449 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003450- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3451 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3452 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3453- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3454 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3455- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3456 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003457- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3458 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3459- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3460 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3461 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3462 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3463 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3464- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3465 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3466 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3467- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3468 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3469 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003470- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3471 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 +00003472- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3473 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3474 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3475 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3476 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3477- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3478 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3479
3480--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3481 *extensions-improvements*
3482
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003483Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3484- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3485 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3486 calling a function.
3487 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3488 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003489- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3490 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003491- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3492 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3493 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3494 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3495 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3496 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003497 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003498- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3499 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3500 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003501- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3502 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000035038 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3504 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3505 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3506 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003507- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3508 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003509
3510
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003511Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035128 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3513 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000035148 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3515 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000035168 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3517 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035188 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035199 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3520 - change to cursor position and curswant
3521 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3522 - how it works for folded lines
3523 - how it works with multi-byte characters
35249 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3525 work too.
35268 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3527 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3528 text.
35298 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
35307 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3531 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
35327 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3533 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003534 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003535- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3536
3537
3538Help:
3539- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3540 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3541- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3542 to the other matches.
3543- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003544- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3545 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3546 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3547 default contents.
3548- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3549 height for the help window (and other windows).
3550- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3551- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3552- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3553
3554
3555User Friendlier:
35568 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3557 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3558 Briscoe)
35598 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
35608 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3561 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3562 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
35638 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3564 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3565- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3566 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003567- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
35689 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3569 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3570 item?).
3571 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035728 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000035737 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3574 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3575 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000035768 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3577 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3578 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3579 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003580
3581
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003582Tab pages:
35839 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035847 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3585 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000035868 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000035878 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000035887 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000035897 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003590 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000035918 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3592 tab pages.
35937 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035947 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3595 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003596
3597
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003598Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003599- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3600 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3601- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3602 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3603 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3604- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3605 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003606- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3607 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3608 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003609- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3610 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3611 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003612- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3613 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003614- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003615 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3616 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000036178 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3618 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
36198 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3620 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
36218 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3622 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003623 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003624 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3625 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3626 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3627 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003628- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3629 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003630- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003631- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3632 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003633- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003634 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003635- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003636 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003637- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3638 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003639- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3640 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3641- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003642 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003643 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3644 in the affix file separately.
3645 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003646 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003647 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3648 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3649 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3650- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3651 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3652 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3653 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3654 Alternative:
3655 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3656 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3657 affix which is required.
3658- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003659 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003660- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3661 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3662 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003663- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3664 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003665- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3666 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3667- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000036688 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3669 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3670 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3671 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003672- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3673 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3674 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3675 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000036768 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3677 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000036788 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
36798 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3680 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000036817 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
36828 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3683 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3684 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3685 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003686
3687
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003688Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020036899 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3690 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020036918 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003692 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003693
3694Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003695 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3696 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036978 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3698 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000036998 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037008 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3701 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3702 user aware of this?
37038 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3704 commands skip over a closed fold.
37058 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
37068 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037077 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003708- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3709 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3710 missing line goes unnoticed.
3711 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003712- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3713 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3714 smoother?
3715- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3716 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003717- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3718 file can contain:
3719 args version.c main.c
3720 edit version.c
3721 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003722- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003723- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3724 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003725- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3726 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003727- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3728 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003729- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003730
3731Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003732- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3733 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3734 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3735 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037369 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3737 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3738 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3739 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020037409 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3741 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3742 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037438 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3744 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3745 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3746 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3747 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3748 item.
37498 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003750 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3751 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037528 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3753 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003754 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003755 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037568 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3757 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037588 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3759 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3760 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037617 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3762 so that the user can fix the problem.
37638 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3764 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037659 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
37668 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037678 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
37688 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037697 Searching and composing characters:
3770 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003771 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3772 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037738 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
37748 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
37758 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3776 characters.
37778 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
37788 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3779 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
37807 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3781 'display' option to specify this.
37827 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3783 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3784- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3785 fontselector somehow.
3786- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3787 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3788- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3789 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3790- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3791 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3792 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3793 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3794 if a font exists?
3795- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003796 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003797- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3798 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003799- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3800 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3801 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3802 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003803- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3804 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003805 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003806- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3807 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3808 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3809 But it's very complicated...
3810
3811
3812Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000038137 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003814- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3815- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3816 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003817- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3818 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003819- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3820- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3821 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003822- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3823 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003824- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3825 units as for the margins.
3826- Support right-to-left text?
38278 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3828 color.
3829
3830
3831Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038328 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3833 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
38348 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3835 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
38368 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3837 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000038387 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3839 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038408 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3841 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3842 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038437 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3844 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3845 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038468 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
38479 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3848 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038497 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3850 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000038517 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3852 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038538 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3854 change this for each release.
38558 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3856 pattern, but not in the body.
38578 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3858 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3859 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038608 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010038618 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003862 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3863 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038648 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3865 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
38668 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3867 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003868 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038698 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3870 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3871 used.
38728 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3873 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
38748 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3875 re-insert the [] if possible.
38768 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3877 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000038788 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3879 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3880 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3881 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3882 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038838 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3884 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
38858 Support for deleting syntax items:
3886 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3887 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3888 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
38898 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3890 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3891 a '<'. (Fleiner)
38927 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3893 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3894 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
38957 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3896 detected.
38978 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003898 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038998 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3900 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039018 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
39028 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
39037 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3904 ":mkvimrc".
39058 Improve c.vim:
3906 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3907 "c_strict_ansi".
3908 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
39098 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3910 current line while in Insert mode.
39118 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3912 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
39138 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3914 display position.
39158 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3916 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3917 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
39188 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3919 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3920 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000039217 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3922 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3923 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3924 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3925 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039267 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3927 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3928 E.g. for this html:
3929 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039307 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
39317 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3932 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039338 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
39348 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039357 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3936 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3937 completion?
39388 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3939 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
39407 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3941 select one of the sets.
39428 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3943 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3944 2, etc.
39458 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3946 highlighting (for "." command).
39478 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3948 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
39498 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
39507 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3951 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
39526 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3953 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3954- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3955 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3956- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003957- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3958 (for comment blocks).
3959- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3960 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3961 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3962 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3963 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3964 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3965 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3966 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3967 (Campbell)
3968 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3969 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
39707 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3971 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
39727 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3973 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3974 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
39757 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3976 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3977 messages. And external commands?
39788 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3979 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
39807 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3981 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3982
3983
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01003984Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039858 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3986 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003987 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039887 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3989 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3990 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039918 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3992 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003993- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3994 2006 Dec 11.
3995- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020039968 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3997 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3998 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3999 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4000 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4001 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000040027 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4003 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040048 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010040058 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4006 can be the plugin name.
4007 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4008 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040097 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4010 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4011 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4012 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4013 autocommand.
4014 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4015 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4016 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4017 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040187 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4019 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040206 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4021 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040228 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004023 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4024 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004025 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4026 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4027 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004028 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4029 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4030 3 2002
4031 Only add this when also implemented for
4032 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4033 be used.
4034 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004035 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4036 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4037 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4038 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4039 File.Open..." argument.
4040 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4041 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4042 with properties instead.
4043 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4044 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4045 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004046 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004047 crypt() encrypt string
4048 decrypt() decrypt string
4049 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4050 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004051 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004052 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004053 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004054 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004055 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004056 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4057 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004058 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4059 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004060 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004061 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
4062 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004063 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4064 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4065 to allow the library to execute a command or
4066 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040677 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4068 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
40698 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4070 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040718 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4072 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040738 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020040749 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004075 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
40766 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000040778 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4078 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040798 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4080 option or environment variable.
40818 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040828 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004083 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000040847 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4085 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040868 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4087 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
40888 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
40898 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4090 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4091 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4092 charwise({expr}).
40937 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4094 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4095 buffer for this?
4096 result = scratch(string, command)
4097 result = apply(string, command)
4098 result = execute(string, command)
4099 "command" would use <> notation.
4100 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
41017 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004102
4103
4104Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000041056 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4106 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4107 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4108 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4109 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4110 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4111 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004112
4113
4114Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041157 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4116 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041177 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4118 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4119 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4120 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041218 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4122 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4123 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4124 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004125 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041268 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
41279 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
41288 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
41297 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4130 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
41318 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4132 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4133 when starting up in a color terminal.
41348 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4135 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041368 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4137 function be improved?
41388 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4139 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4140 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4141 this be improved?
41428 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4143 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000041447 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4145 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041467 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4147 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
41487 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4149 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041507 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4151 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4152 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4153 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4154 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4155 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4156 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041578 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4158 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4159 using strcmp() too often?
41607 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4161 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4162 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4163 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4164 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4165 the two blocks to the memfile block.
41667 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4167 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4168 with an argument that can be messed with.
4169 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4170 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
41717 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4172- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
41738 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4174 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4175- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4176 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4177- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4178- Do profiling on:
4179 - :g/pat/normal cmd
4180 - 1000ii<Esc>
4181 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4182 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4183 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4184 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4185 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4186 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004187 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041887 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4189 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4190 changed).
4191 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4192 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4193- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4194- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4195 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4196- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4197 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4198 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
4199- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
4200 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
4201- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4202- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4203 cursor is right of the screen.
42048 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4205 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4206
4207
4208Code size:
42098 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4210- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4211 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
42128 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
42138 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4214 it.
42157 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4216 left out.
42178 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4218 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010042198 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004220
4221
4222Messages:
42238 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4224 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
42258 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4226 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
42278 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4228 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004229- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4230 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4231- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042328 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4233 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042349 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4235 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4236 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4237 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4238 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042398 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4240 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
42418 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4242 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4243 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4244 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4245 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4246 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004247- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004248 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042498 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4250 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4251 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4252 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4253 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4254 error messages, printing text, etc.
42558 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4256 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4257 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4258
4259
4260Screen updating:
42617 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4262 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4263 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4264- screen_line():
4265 - insert/delete character stuff.
4266 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4267- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4268 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4269- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4270 waiting for a character.
42718 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4272 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4273 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004274
4275Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020042768 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042776 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4278- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4279 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4280 windows.
42817 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4282 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4283 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4284- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4285 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4286 (Goldfarb)
4287- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4288 bound windows.
4289- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4290 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004291- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004292- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4293 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4294 of lines but not with a single line).
4295
4296
4297Autoconf:
42988 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
42998 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4300 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4301- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4302 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4303- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4304- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4305- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4306
4307
4308Perl interface:
43098 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043107 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
43117 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
43126 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4313
4314
4315Shared libraries:
43166 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4317 :libload internal-name libname
4318 :libunload internal-name
4319 :liblist
4320 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4321 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4322 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
43236 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4324
4325
4326Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000043279 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4328 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4329 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4330 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4331 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000043328 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4333 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4334 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004335 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004336 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000043377 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4338 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4339 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043408 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
43418 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4342 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043437 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4344 window for each tag.
43457 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
43467 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4347 bottom" search message.
43487 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4349 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4350 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004351- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4352- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004353- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4354 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4355 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043567 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4357 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4358 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4359 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
43607 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4361 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4362 :tagargs clear
4363 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4364 matching).
43657 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4366 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4367 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4368 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
43697 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4370 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
43717 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4372 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4373 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004374
4375
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004376Win32 GUI:
43778 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4378 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043797 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4380 (Mike McCollister)
43818 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4382 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4383 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4384 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4385 common part of the path.
43868 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
43878 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4388 gettext and menus work.
43898 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4390 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004391 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004392 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
43938 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4394 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
43958 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4396 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
43977 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4398 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
43997 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
44007 <Esc> should close a dialog.
44017 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4402 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4403 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4404 prompts.
44057 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4406 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4407 the file added into an already running Vim.
44087 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4409 functions to find the window title.
4410
4411
4412GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020044138 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004414- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4415 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
44167 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
44178 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
44186 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
44198 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4420 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
44219 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
44227 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
44238 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4424 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
44258 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4426 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4427 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
44288 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4429 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
44308 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4431 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4432 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4433 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044347 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
44358 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4436 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000044377 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4438 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4439 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044408 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
44418 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004442 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044438 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
44448 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
44458 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4446 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4447 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
44487 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4449 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4450 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
44517 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4452 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
44537 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4454 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4455 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4456 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044577 Should support multi-column menus.
4458- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4459 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4460- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
44618 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
44626 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4463 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
44647 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
44657 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4466 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4467 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
44687 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
44698 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4470 name can be chosen free.
44717 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4472 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
44736 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4474 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4475 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4476 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4477 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4478 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4479 things.
44807 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4481 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044827 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004483 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004484- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4485 where it was started from?
44867 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4487
4488
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004489Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020044909 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4491 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004492- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010044938 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4494 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4495 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4496 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
44978 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4498 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000044997 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4500 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4501 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4502 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000045037 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045048 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4505 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045068 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4507 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4508 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045097 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4510 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4511 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045128 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4513 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4514 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045158 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4516 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045178 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045186 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4519 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045207 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045217 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004522 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4523 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4524 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045255 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4526 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4527 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
45287 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4529 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4530 file.
45318 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4532 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4533 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004534- Add events to autocommands:
4535 Error - When an error happens
4536 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004537 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004538 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00004539 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004540 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4541 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004542 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004543 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004544 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4545 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4546 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4547 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004548 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004549 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4550 the char.
4551 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4552 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4553 file from CVS).
4554 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4555 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4556 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4557 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4558 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4559 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004560 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4561 changes.
4562 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4563 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004564- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004565 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004566 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004567 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4568 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4569 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4570 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4571 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4572
4573
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004574Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004575- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4576 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004577- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4578 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4579 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4580 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4581 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004582- Ideas from others:
4583 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4584 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4585 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4586 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4587 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4588 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4589 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4590 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4591 Uses Perl for C++.
4592 Uses ctags to find the info:
4593 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4594 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4595 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4596 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4597 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4598 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004599 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004600 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4601- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4602
4603
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004604Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004605- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000046067 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4607 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046087 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4609 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4610 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046118 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4612 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
46139 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4614 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4615 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046168 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4617 - ignore/match case
4618 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046198 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4620 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4621 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4622 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4623 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4624 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046258 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000046267 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4627 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046288 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4629 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4630 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4631 Should work for C++ and Java.
4632 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
46337 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
46347 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4635 instead of words.
46368 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
46378 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4638 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
46398 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4640 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004641- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4642 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004643- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4644 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4645 wildcards in the file name)?
4646- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4647- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4648- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4649 be in another file).
4650- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4651- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4652- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4653 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4654- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4655- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4656- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004657- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4658
4659
4660Command line editing:
46617 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4662 line.
46638 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4664 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4665 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4666- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4667 lines wraps to start of line).
4668- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4669 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4670 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4671 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4672 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4673 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4674 cmdwin does now already.
4675 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4676 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4677 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4678 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4679 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4680 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4681 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4682 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4683 Problems:
4684 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4685 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4686 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4687 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4688 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4689 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4690 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4691 character in first column?
4692 - Implementation ideas:
4693 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4694 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4695 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4696 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4697 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4698 Mode.
4699
4700
4701Command line completion:
47028 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
47038 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4704 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
47058 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4706 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047078 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4708 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047097 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4710 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004711- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4712- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4713 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047148 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4715 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
47167 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4717 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4718- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4719 identifiers (Webb).
47208 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4721 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
47227 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4723 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4724- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4725 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4726- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4727 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4728 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004729
4730
4731Command line history:
4732- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4733 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4734 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004735 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004736- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4737 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4738
4739
4740Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000047419 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4742 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4743 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047448 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4745 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4746 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4747 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4748 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047498 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4750 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4751 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047527 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4753 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004754- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047557 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4756 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4757- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4758 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4759 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4760 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4761 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4762 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4763- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4764 Normal mode.
4765- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4766 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4767 are used.
4768- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4769- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4770- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4771
4772
4773'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010047749 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4775 char * veryLongName =
4776 "very long string"
4777 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047788 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047798 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4780 long_type foo =
4781 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047828 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4783 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004784 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047858 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4786 func(
4787 new String[] {
4788 "asdf",
4789 "asdf"
4790 }
4791 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047928 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4793 (Chow Loong Jin)
4794 namespace {
4795 int
4796 func(int arg) {
4797 }
4798 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047996 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4800 func( arg1
4801 , arg2
4802 , arg3
4803 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000048047 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004805 func(
4806 int x) // indent like "(4"
4807 {
4808 if (a
4809 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048109 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4811 if (a)
4812 {
4813 if (b)
4814 {
4815 // {
4816 }
4817 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004818 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4819 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4820 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004821- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004822 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
48237 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4824- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4825 line).
4826- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4827- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4828 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004829- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4830 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4831- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4832 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4833- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4834- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4835 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
48368 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4837 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4838 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4839- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4840- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4841 lines start with "\item".
4842- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4843 /* here is a comment that
4844 is just autoindented, and
4845 nothing else */
4846- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
48477 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4848 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4849 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004850 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004851
4852
4853Java:
48548 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4855 Odendahl?
48568 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4857 "[i" commands and friends.
4858- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4859 (Jason)
4860- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4861 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4862
4863
4864'comments':
48658 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4866 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4867 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4868 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004869 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4870 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048717 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4872 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
48737 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
48746 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4875 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4876 regexp is used.
48778 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4878 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4879
4880
4881Virtual edit:
48828 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048837 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4884
4885
4886Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048878 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048888 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000048898 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004890 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000048918 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4892 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004893 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4894 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000048958 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048968 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4897 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048988 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4899 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4900 the end of the line or before a ".".
49017 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4902 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
49037 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4904 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049056 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
49065 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4907 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4908 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4909 cursor is on.
4910
4911
4912Select mode:
49138 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4914 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
49157 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004916 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049177 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4918 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4919 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4920 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4921 normal_cmd().
4922 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4923 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4924
4925
4926Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020049278 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4928 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004929- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4930 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4931 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004932- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4933 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4934 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049358 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004936 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004937 where needed.
49387 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4939 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
49407 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4941 of each selected line.
49428 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
49438 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4944 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4945 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
49468 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4947 Ben Godfrey)
49487 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4949 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
49507 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4951 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049527 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004953 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004954 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
49558 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4956 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
49577 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4958 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4959 option!
49607 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4961 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4962 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4963 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4964 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4965 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4966 without changing the column.
49676 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049687 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4969 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049706 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4971 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
49726 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049736 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004974 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004975 or other special character.
49766 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4977
4978
4979More advanced repeating commands:
4980- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004981- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004982- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004983 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4984 "y." will repeat last yank.
4985 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4986 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4987 and/or pick an older command.
4988- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4989
4990
4991Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049928 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4993 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4994 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
49958 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
49967 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4997 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049988 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4999 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
50008 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000050017 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050028 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5003 entering search strings.
50048 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5005 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5006 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050078 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5008 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050097 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050107 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5011 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050126 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5013 abbreviations are to be used.
5014- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5015 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5016 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005017- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5018 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5019 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5020 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5021 Or implicit:
5022 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005023- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5024 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5025 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005026- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5027 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5028- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5029 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
50306 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5031 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5032 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5033 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005034- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5035 non-replace Insert mode?
5036- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005037- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5038- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5039 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5040- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005041 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005042- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5043 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5044- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5045- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5046 ":freekeys".
5047- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5048
5049
5050Incsearch:
5051- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
5052- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5053 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5054 up every time.
5055- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5056 folds when going to another line.
5057- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5058 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5059 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5060 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005061
5062
5063Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010050649 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000050658 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005066 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005067 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005068 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005069 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010050709 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5071 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010050728 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5073 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000050748 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5075 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5076 Perl does it this way:
5077 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5078 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5079 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5080 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050818 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5082 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5083 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000050847 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5085 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000050868 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5087 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000050887 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005089 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5090 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5091 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000050927 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005093 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050947 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5095 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050968 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5097 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
50988 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5099 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020051007 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005101 example.
51028 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5103 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5104- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5105 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5106 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5107 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051088 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5109 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5110 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
51117 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5112 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000051137 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5114 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051158 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5116 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051178 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5118 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051198 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5120 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5121 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5122 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005123- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5124 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005125- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5126 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5127- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5128 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5129 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5130 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051318 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5132 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005133- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5134 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051358 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5136 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5137 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005138- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5139 i ignore case
5140 I use case
5141 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5142 v use Vi regexp syntax
5143 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5144 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5145 Perl uses these too:
5146 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5147 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5148 o compile only once (Perl only)
5149 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5150 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5151 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5152 following command.
5153 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5154- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5155 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5156 for search string)?
51577 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5158 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5159- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5160 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5161- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5162 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5163- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5164- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005165 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005166 a for the next file in the argument list
5167 f for file in the buffer list
5168 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005169 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5170 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005171 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5172 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5173- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051747 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005175 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051767 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5177 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5178 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5179 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
51806 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5181 effects.
51827 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5183 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5184 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000051857 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005186 Also ":dselect".
5187
5188
5189Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010051909 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5191 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5192 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051939 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5194 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020051958 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5196 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051978 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5198 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5199 timestamp?
5200 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5201 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005202- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5203 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005204- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5205 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5206 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
52078 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5208 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5209 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5210 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
52118 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5212 only remember the lines that really changed.
52137 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5214 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5215 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5216 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005217- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5218 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5219- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5220 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5221- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5222 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5223 [-99].
5224- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5225- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005226- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5227 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5228
5229
5230Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052317 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5232 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5233 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5234 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
52358 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5236 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
52378 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5238 inode too.
52397 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005240 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5241 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052427 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5243 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5244- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5245 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5246- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5247 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
52487 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5249 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
52507 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5251 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
52528 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052537 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5254 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010052558 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5256 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5257 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005258
5259
5260Swap (.swp) files:
52618 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5262 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5263 there are short file name problems.
52648 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5265 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
52668 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
52678 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005268 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005269 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5270 file the same as the actual file?
5271 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052727 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5273 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
52747 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005275 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005276 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5277 enough room.
52787 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5279 or /var/preserve.
5280- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5281 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5282- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005283 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005284- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5285 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5286 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5287 cached list of which line is where.
5288
5289
5290Viminfo:
52917 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5292 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5293 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052948 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5295 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5296 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052978 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5298 name. (Schild)
52998 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
53008 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053018 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053028 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5303 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5304 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5305 this?
53067 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
53077 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5308 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
53096 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5310 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5311 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5312- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5313 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5314
5315
5316Modelines:
53178 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5318 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5319 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005320- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5321 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5322 'shiftwidth'.
5323- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5324 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005325- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5326 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5327 modeline setting.
5328- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5329 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5330- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5331 .cpp files.
5332- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5333 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5334- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5335 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5336
5337
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005338Sessions:
53398 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5340 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
53417 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5342 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053438 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5344 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053458 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5346 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5347 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000053487 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5349 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000053507 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005351
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005352
5353Options:
53547 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5355 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053568 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5357 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5358 also be supported.
53598 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5360 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5361 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
53627 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
53637 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
5364 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01005365 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005366
5367
5368External commands:
53698 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5370 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
53714 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5372 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5373 -f).
53744 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
53754 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5376 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
53774 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5378
5379
5380Multiple Windows:
53817 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
53828 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5383 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
53847 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5385 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5386 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000053877 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5388 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000053897 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5390 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053916 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5392 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005393 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005394 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
53957 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5396 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5397 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5398 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5399- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5400 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5401 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5402 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5403
5404
5405Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054068 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054078 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5408 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000054098 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 +000054108 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5411 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
54128 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5413 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5414 the mark was set.
54157 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5416 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5417 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5418 ":browse marks"?
54196 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054207 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5421 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
54227 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5423 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
54247 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5425 command).
54267 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5427 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5428 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5429 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
54305 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5431 mappings.
54326 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5433 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5434 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5435
5436
5437Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020054387 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005439 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005440- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5441 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000054428 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054437 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5444 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5445
5446
5447Writing files:
5448- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5449 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5450 shortname conversion.
54518 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
54528 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5453 file.
54548 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5455 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5456 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054576 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5458 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
54596 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5460 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
54616 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5462 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000054638 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005464 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
54657 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5466 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
54677 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5468 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5469 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5470 waiting for a character to be typed).
54718 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5472 line of the window, like "[time]".
5473 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5474 Automatic and/or with a command.
5475
5476
5477Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000054788 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5479 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000054808 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005481 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5482- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5483- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
54848 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5485 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005486- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005487 :s///N substitutes N times.
5488- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5489 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5490 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
54917 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5492 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5493 last line column 5.
54945 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5495 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5496 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5497 (Stanislav Sitar)
5498
5499
5500Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055018 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
55027 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
55038 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5504 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5505 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005506- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5507- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5508 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5509- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5510- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5511
5512
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005513Argument list:
55146 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5515 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5516 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
55176 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5518
5519
5520Registers:
55218 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055228 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5523 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5524 for every line.
55256 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5526 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5527 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5528- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5529 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5530- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5531 leader when line wraps?
5532- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5533 line in the range.
5534- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5535 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
55368 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5537 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005538
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005539
5540Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055418 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000055428 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055437 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
55447 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5545
5546
5547Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000055487 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5549 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5550 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5551 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5552 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5553 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5554 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005555 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000055567 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5557 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000055587 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5559 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055608 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5561 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055627 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5563 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5564 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005565- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005566 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055677 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5568 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055697 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5570 window as a buffer-tab selection.
55718 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055727 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5573 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
55748 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5575 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055766 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055778 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5578 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5579 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5580 in this Vim.
55818 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005582 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055838 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5584 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5585 have it apply to the following command.
55868 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5587 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5588 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5589 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055907 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5591 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055927 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5593 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5594 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5595 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055966 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
55978 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
55989 Support ACLs on more systems.
55997 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5600 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056017 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5602 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5603 (truncated to fit in the space).
56047 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
56058 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
56068 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5607 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000056087 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005609 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
56107 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5611 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056127 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056137 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
56147 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056158 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
56168 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5617 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5618 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5619 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
56208 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056218 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056228 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5623 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5624 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5625 does something like this. (Shah)
56267 Use growarray for replace stack.
56277 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5628 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
56293 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056307 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5631 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056327 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5633 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005634- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5635- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5636- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5637- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
56387 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5639 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5640- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5641 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005642- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005643- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5644 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5645- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5646 call "play newbeep.au").
5647- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5648 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5649 (Bhatt).
5650- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5651 blockwise registers).
5652- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5653 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5654- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5655 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5656 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5657 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005658- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056597 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5660 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5661- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5662 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5663 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5664 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5665 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056668 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5667 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056688 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5669 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5670 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5671 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5672 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5673- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005674- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056757 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5676 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5677- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5678 not in column 1.
56796 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5680 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
56817 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5682- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005683- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005684 :redir #> bufname
5685 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005686- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5687 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005688- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5689 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5690 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
56916 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5692 console? (Klaus Hast)
5693- Add :delcr command:
5694 *:delcr*
5695 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5696 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5697 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5698 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5699 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5700 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5701- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5702- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5703 characters from 'isprint'.
5704- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5705- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5706 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5707- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5708 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5709 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5710- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5711- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5712 Nvi).
5713- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5714 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
57157 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5716- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5717 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
57186 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5719- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5720 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5721 macro).
5722- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005723- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5724 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5725- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
57268 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005727- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5728- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5729- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5730 if it is not the first or last window.
5731- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5732 there is one) instead of the file itself.
57337 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5734 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5735 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5736- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5737- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005738 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005739 many percent down the windows).
5740- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5741 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5742 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005743 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005744- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5745 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5746- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5747 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5748- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5749- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5750- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5751 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057528 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5753 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5754 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5755 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5756 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005757- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5758 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5759- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005760 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5761- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005762 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5763 (Webb).
5764- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005765 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005766- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5767 hex codes like 0xff).
5768- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5769 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5770 the last TYPED command.
5771- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5772- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5773- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5774 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005775- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057768 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5777 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5778 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005779- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005780 trailing '.'.
5781- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5782 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5783 find_file_in_path().
5784- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5785 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5786- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5787- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5788 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5789- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005790 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005791- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5792 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5793 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005794- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5795- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5796- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5797 to the minimal size.
5798- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5799- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5800- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5801- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5802- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005803- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5804 entered)?
5805- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5806 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005807- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005808- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5809- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5810- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5811- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5812- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5813 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005814- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058158 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5816 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5817 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5818 or in octal.
58197 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5820 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005821- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005822 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5823- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5824- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5825 insert line command).
5826- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5827- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5828- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5829- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5830- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5831 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005832- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005833 yet.
5834- Implement 'redraw' option.
5835- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5836 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058377 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5838 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005839 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5840 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058418 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5842 do it.
5843- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5844- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5845 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5846- Add text justification option.
5847- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5848- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5849 off".
5850- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5851- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5852- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005853 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005854- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005855- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005856- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5857 commands.
5858- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5859- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5860- :table command (Webb)
5861- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005862- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5863- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5864- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5865- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5866- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5867 (Demirel).
5868- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5869- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5870 for use in macro's and the like.
5871- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005872 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005873- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005874 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005875- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005876 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005877 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5878- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5879 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005880- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005881 mkopttab to make option table?
5882- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5883 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5884- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5885 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005886- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005887 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5888- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5889 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005890- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000058918 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5892 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5893 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5894 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5895 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058968 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5897 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5898 (Netherton)
58996 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5900 space after "(", for example.
59015 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5902 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5903 (Servatius Brandt)
5904
5905
5906From Elvis:
5907- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5908- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005909- Search patterns:
5910 \@ match word under cursor.
5911 but do:
5912 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5913 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
59148 ":window" command:
5915 :win + next window (up)
5916 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5917 :win - previous window (down)
5918 :win -- idem, wrapping
5919 :win nr to window number "nr"
5920 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
59217 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5922 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5923
5924
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005925From xvi:
5926- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5927- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5928
5929
5930From vile:
5931- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5932- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5933 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5934
5935
5936Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005937- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5938 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01005939 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005940 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5941 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005942- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5943 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5944- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5945 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5946 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5947 current layout mirrored.
5948- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5949- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5950 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5951- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5952- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5953 font in each top-level window.
5954- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5955- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5956- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5957- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5958 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005959- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5960 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5961- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5962 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
59634 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5964 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5965 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5966 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005967 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005968 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5969 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5970- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5971 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5972 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5973
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005974vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5975vim: set fo+=n :