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Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 May 26
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020041Include src/po/vim.pot ?
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020042
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010043Vim9 script:
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020044Making everything work:
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020045- possible memory leak in test_vim9_func through compile_nested_function.
46- memory leaks in test_vim9_expr
47- memory leaks in test_vim9_script
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020048- Test that a script-local function in Vim9 script cannot be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020049- Make "true" and "false" work in vim9script
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020050- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that
51 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be
52 defined.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020053- make 0 == 'string' fail on the script level, like inside :def.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020054- Check that when using a user function name without prefix, it does not find
55 a global function. Prefixing g: is required.
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020056- Compile: let [var, var] = expr
57- Compile: for [key, value] in items(map)
58- Assignment to dict doesn't work:
59 let ret: dict<string> = #{}
60 ret[i] = string(i)
61- Appending to dict item doesn't work:
62 let d[i] ..= value
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020063- Compile replacement of :s command: s/pat/\=expr/
64- Compile redir to local variable: var_redir_start().
65- Compile builtin functions that access local variables:
66 islocked()
67- Expand `=expr` in :next, :argedit, :argadd, :argdelete, :drop
68- Expand `=expr` in :vimgrep, :vimgrepadd, :lvimgrep, :lvimgrepadd
69- Expand `=expr` in :mkspell
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020070- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
71 has('asdf'), len('string')
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020072- Support type for ":let"/":const" at script level for Vim9 script.
73 (Ben Jackson, #5671)
74 Can we share the code from ex_let_const() between direct execution and
75 compiling?
76- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
77- Make "++nr" work.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020078- Make closures work:
79 - Create closure in a loop. Need to make a list of them.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020080- expandcmd() with `=expr` in filename uses legacy expression.
81- eval_expr() in ex_cexpr()
82- eval_expr() call in dbg_parsearg() and debuggy_find()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020083- has() is compiled as a constant, but some checks are dynamic.
84 Check for dynamic values, such as "gui_running".
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020085New syntax and functionality:
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020086Improve error checking:
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010087- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020088Also:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020089- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
90 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010091- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010092- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
93- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010094- Check that import in legacy script works and puts item in s:
95- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
96- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +010097- Fix memory leaks for test_vim9_disassemble, test_vim9_expr, test_vim9_script
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010098- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010099- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
100 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
101- call autoload function.
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100102- Implement more expressions, e.g. [a:b]
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100103- can use func as reference:
104 def SomeFunc() ...
105 map(list, SomeFunc)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100106- Test: Function declared inside a :def function is local, disappears at the
107 end of the function. Unless g: is used, just like with variables.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100108- implement :type
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200109- import type declaration?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100110- implement class
111- implement interface
112- predefined class: Promise<T>
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200113- implement enum
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100114- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
115 EVAL expr
116 LOADVARARG (varags idx)
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200117Further improvements:
118- compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
119 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
120 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
Bram Moolenaar2cfb4a22020-05-07 18:56:00 +0200121- Make inline function work, to be used as a funcref:
122 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
123 body
124 enddef
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200125- compile get_lambda_tv() in popup_add_timeout()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200126- inline call to map() and filter()
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200127- compile "skip" argument of searchpair()
128- compile "expr" and "call" expression of a channel in channel_exe_cmd()?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100129
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200130Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200131- Can put focus in another window using API and "drop". (#6077)
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100132- With some sequence get get hidden finished terminal buffer. (#5768)
133 Cannot close popup terminal (#5744)
134 Buffer can't be wiped, gets status "aF". (#5764)
135 Is buf->nwindows incorrect?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100136- popup_clear() and popup_close() should close the terminal popup, and
137 make the buffer hidden. #5745
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200138- Cursor not updated before a redraw, making it jump. (#5943)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100139- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100140- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
141 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
142 the way. (#5737)
143 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200144- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100145- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
146 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
147- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200148- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200149 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100150- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
151 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200152- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100153 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100154- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200155
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200156Text properties:
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200157- Patch to fix that split / join does not update properties properly (Axel
158 Forsman, #5839) Alternative: #5875.
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200159- :goto does not go to the right place when test properties are present.
160 (#5930)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100161- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100162- Get E685 with a sequence of commands. (#5674)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100163- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
164 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100165- Text properties spanning more than one line. #5683
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100166- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200167
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100168'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200169- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
170 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100171- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
172 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200173- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200174- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200175- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
176 isn't one?
177 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
178
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200179Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100180- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200181- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100182- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200183
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200184Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200185- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100186- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
187 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200188- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100189- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200190- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
191 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
192 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100193- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100194- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
195 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100196 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100197 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200198
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200199Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200200- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
201 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
202 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
203 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200204- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
205 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100206- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
207 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200208 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
209 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100210 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100211- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100212- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
213 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200214- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
215 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200216- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200217- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200218- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
219 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200220- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
221 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
222- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
223 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200224- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
225 is disabled.
226- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
227- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
228 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200229- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
230 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
231 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
232- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
233- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
234 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
235- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
236 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200237
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200238Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200239E453, E454, E489, E610, E611, E653, E856, E857, E861, E900
240
241Patch to fix that typval related code is spread out. (Yegappan Lakshmanan,
242#6093)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200243
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200244Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
245autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
246 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
247 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
248 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
249 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
250 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
251The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
252
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100253Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
254Causes flicker on resizing.
Bram Moolenaar2ed639a2019-12-09 23:11:18 +0100255
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200256Patch to support ipv6 for channel. (Ozaki Kiichi, #5893)
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100257
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100258Patch to explain use of "%" in :!. (David Briscoe, #5591)
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100259
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100260Patch to improve Windows terminal support. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5546)
261Ready to include.
262
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200263Patch to improve use of Lua path. (Prabir Shrestha, #6098)
264
265Patch to make exepath() work better on MS-Windows. (#6115)
266
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100267Patch to add "-d" to xxd. (#5616)
268
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200269Patch for the Haiku port: #5961
270
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100271Patch to add Turkish manual. (Emir Sarı, #5641)
272
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200273Patch to add lua sleep function. (Prabir Shrestha, #6057)
274Alternative: use vim.call and vim.fn: #6063
275
Bram Moolenaar2cfb4a22020-05-07 18:56:00 +0200276Patch to add getmarklist() (Yegappan, #6032)
277
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200278Patch to support different color for undercurl in cterm.
279(Timur Celik, #6011)
280
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100281Patch to support cindent option to handle pragmas differently.
282(Max Rumpf, #5468)
283
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200284Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
285(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30, now in #6087)
286
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100287File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
288
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200289"make test_gui" crashed in submenu_change(). Fix and remove workaround in
290add_pixmap_args().
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200291Athena is OK.
292Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200293Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
294manager. Problem with Motif?
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200295
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200296:map output does not clear the reset of the command line.
297(#5623, also see #5962)
298
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200299Patch to properly break CJK lines: Anton Kochkov, #3875
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200300Flag in 'formatoptions' is not used in the tests.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200301
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100302Patch to add 'vtp' option. (#5344)
303Needs better docs. Is there a better name?
304
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200305Patch to add argument to trim() to only trim start or end of a string.
306(Yegappan, #6126)
307
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200308undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
309
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100310Patch for Template string: #4491. New pull: #4634
311Ready to include? Review the code.
312
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100313When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
314(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
315
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200316Patch to delete BeOS code. (#5817) Anyone who wants to keep it?
317
318With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
319'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100320
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200321Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
322which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
323#6127
324
325When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
326":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
327Might be related to #6088.
328
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200329When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
330Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
331(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
332
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100333Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
334(Paul Jolly, #5656)
335Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100336 Later more requests for what to track.
337 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
338 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
339 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100340BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100341Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100342
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100343Patch to add function to return the text used in the quickfix window.
344(Yegappan, #5465)
345
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100346Patch to add readdirex() (Ken Takata, #5619)
347
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200348Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
349
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100350Request to support <Cmd> in mappings, similar to how Neovim does this.
351(Daniel Hahler, #4784)
352
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200353Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
354
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100355:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
356Dec 19)
357
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100358Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
359May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200360Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
361remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200362Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100363Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200364
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100365When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
366the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
367
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100368Patch to make ":verbose pwd" show the scope of the directory. (Takuya
369Fujiwara, #5469)
370
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200371Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100372Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
373in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200374Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
375(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200376
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100377Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
378ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
379
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100380Patch to add "note" type to quickfix. (#5527) Missing tests.
381
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100382Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
383(#4087)
384
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100385FR: add search_status(), the current values displayed for search (current
386match, total matches). (#5631)
387Patch to provide search stats in a variable, so that it can be used in the
388statusline. (Fujiwara Takuya, #4446)
389
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100390Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
391(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
392
393behavior of i_CTRl-R_CTRL-R differs from documentation. (Paul Desmond Parker,
394#5771)
395
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200396":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
397goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
398unlisted. (#4478)
399
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100400Patch to include reduce() function. (#5481)
401
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100402Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100403
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200404Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
405
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200406Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
407Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
408
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100409Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
410
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100411Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
412
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200413The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
414support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
415
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100416"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
417
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100418Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
419
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200420When 'relativenumber' is set the line just below a diff change doesn't get
421updated. (#6138)
422
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100423Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
424
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100425Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
426
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200427Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
428(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
429
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200430When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
431default one. #4698
432
433When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
434with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
435
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100436Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100437Or make "v" prefix work?
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100438
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200439Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200440Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200441
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200442Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
443fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
444
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200445Patch to add per-tabpage and per-window previous directory: "lcd -" and "tcd
446-". (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4362)
447
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200448Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
449- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
450- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100451- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200452
453Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
45413, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200455
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100456Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
457
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200458Patch to configure BUILD_DATE for reproducible builds. (James McCoy, #513)
459
460Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
461
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100462Patch to support "0o" for octal numbers. (Ken Takata, #5304)
463
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100464Patch to enable IXON, avoid that CTRL-S stops terminal output. (#5775)
465
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100466When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
467when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
468gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
469input buffer. (#5302)
470
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200471xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
472buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
473Xterm 224 supports it!
474Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
475Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
476Also see issue #609.
477We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
478
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100479:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
480(#5467)
481
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200482Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200483
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100484Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
4852007 Feb 18)
486Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
487
488Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
489Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
490
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200491Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
492
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200493Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
494Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200495
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100496Errors found with random data:
497 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100498
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200499Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
500change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
501patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
502(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
503
504Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
505Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
506
507Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
508
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200509Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
510files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
511Include part of #3242?
512
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200513When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
514it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
515
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200516Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
517Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
518Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
519
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100520":2resize +10" uses size of the current window, adds 10 and applies it to
521window 2. User expects 10 to be added to size of window 2. (Daniel Steinberg,
522#5443)
523
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200524Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
525(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
526Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
527- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
528 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
529 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
530- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
531 covered by the above change.
532So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
533same thing. Remarks on PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
534Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200535
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200536Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
537t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
538
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100539v:register isn't reset early enough, may be used by next command.
540(Andy Massimino, #5294, possible fix in #5305)
541
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100542Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
543Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
544
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200545'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
546
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200547"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
548(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
549
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200550Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
551
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100552Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
553
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200554Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
555
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100556When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
557in a long line. #5189
558
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200559The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
560Give a few examples. (#4288)
561
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200562Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
563work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
564
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200565Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only adds the option, no implem.):
5667 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
567 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
568 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
569
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100570Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
571read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
572be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
573
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100574Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
575CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
576with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
577fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
578displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
579
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200580Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
581
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200582Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
583
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200584Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
585https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
586
587Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
588http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
589http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
590Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100591- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200592- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
593- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
594 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
595- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
596- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
597Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
598- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
599- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
600Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
601- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
602
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100603Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
604Mar 5)
605
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200606Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
607- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
608 line.
609- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
610 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
611- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
612 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
613
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200614Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
615on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
616
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200617Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
618in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
619buffer didn't change at all.
620
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200621Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
622register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
623(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
624
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200625Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
626(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
627
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200628Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
629":let buf = bufcreate('name')
630
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200631Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
632'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
633(#4450)
634
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100635When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
636But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
637similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
638
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200639C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
640(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
641
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100642Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
643added?
644
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200645Patch to add a flatten() function. #3676. Check that the doc explains the
646maxdepth argument (applies to the input "recursiveness").
647
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200648Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
649negative. (see #4326)
650
651'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
652`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
653tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
654:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
655
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200656This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
657 vim: syn=nosyntax
658
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200659":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
660a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
661
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100662Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
663#2948. (related to #1512?)
664On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
665balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
66620, #2481)
667Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
668Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
669balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
6702018 Sep 14)
671Another request: #3811.
672
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200673More warnings from static analysis:
674https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200675
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100676Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
677
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200678Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
679
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200680Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
681internals of the dict structure.
682
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100683nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
684
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200685Missing tests for:
686- add_termcap_entry()
687
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200688Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
689change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
690them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
691
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100692Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
693Also run all tests with C locale?
694
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100695"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
696#3927
697
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200698Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200699Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200700
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100701When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
702case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
703For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
704
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200705Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
706(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
707expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200708
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200709Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
710 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
711 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
712
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100713Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100714punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100715
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200716ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
717
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200718Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
719":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
720#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
721Updated 2019 May 25.
722
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200723Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
724drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
725
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200726Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
727is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
728
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100729When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
730scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
731using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
732
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200733Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
734#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
735(Sep 8)
736
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200737Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
738unified diff (list of lines).
739
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100740When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
741kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
742when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
743
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100744Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
745(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100746
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100747Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
748
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100749Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100750Memory leak in test_terminal_fail
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200751TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100752Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200753Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
754Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200755
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200756gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200757
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200758matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
75919.
760
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100761Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100762Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100763Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
764highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200765And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
766'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100767Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
768Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100769
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100770Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
771Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
772
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200773Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
774Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
775Not ready to include.
776
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200777Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
778Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
779Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
780
781Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
782
783Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
784screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
785
786Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
787 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
788 Not ready to include.
789
790Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
791Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
792
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200793home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
794
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200795When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
796terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
797How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
798
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200799Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
800
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100801Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
802Feedback from someone who uses this?
803
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200804ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
805
806Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
807Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
808values.
809
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100810Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200811- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
812- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
813- omit diff.exe from distribution
814- Can we make this show differences within a line?
815- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200816
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200817Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
818
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100819Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
820What is the practical use for this?
821
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200822When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
823includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
824
825Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200826Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200827
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200828MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
829(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
830
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100831Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
832
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200833Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
834
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200835Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
836window for the buffer.
837
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200838Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
839when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
840
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100841Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
842mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
843
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200844Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
845
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200846Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
847modified buffers
848 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
849 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
850 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
851 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
852
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100853Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
854- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
855- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
856- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100857- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
858
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200859Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
860characters. (#3246)
861
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200862'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
863
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100864Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
865Oct 28)
866
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200867ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
868Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
869Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
870Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
871
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100872Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
873- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
874
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200875Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
876- Test_setbufvar_options()
877- Test_exit_callback_interval()
878
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200879Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
880Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100881Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
882Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200883
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200884Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
885
886Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
88724)
888
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100889Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100890 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100891or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100892 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
893
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100894Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100895mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100896
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200897Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
898is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
899used for git temp files.
900
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100901Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
902
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200903Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
904behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
905(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
906
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200907Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
908pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
909
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200910Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
911script or function.
912
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200913When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
914E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
915does nothing otherwise?
916
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200917MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
918If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
919(wait a little while).
920CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100921
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200922Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
923MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
9242017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
925receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
926
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200927Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
928missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
929
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200930":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
931deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
932
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200933Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200934
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100935Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200936Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
937
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200938With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
939included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
940(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
941
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200942Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200943Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200944
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100945Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100946Jan 15, #2555)
947
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200948":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
949
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100950Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
951
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100952No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
953No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
954
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200955Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
956http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
957Should be supported with a flag.
958
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100959Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
960confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
961
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100962Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
963
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100964Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
965Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
966applying the diff, etc.
967
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200968Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
969Apr 26, #2849)
970
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100971User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
972word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100973
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100974Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200975
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200976With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
977(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
978
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200979Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
980:drop (remote commands).
981
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200982Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
9832018 Jun 18, #3027)
984
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200985Implement option_save() and option_restore():
986option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
987 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
988 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
989 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
990 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
991 be called when the same window is the current window.
992 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
993 the local options won't be restored.
994
995option_save({list}) *option_save()*
996 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
997 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
998 let s:saved_options = option_save([
999 \ 'ignorecase',
1000 \ 'iskeyword',
1001 \ ])
1002 au <buffer> BufLeave *
1003 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
1004< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
1005 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
1006 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
1007 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001008 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
1009 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
1010 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +01001011 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001012
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001013"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
1014directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
1015Also see #1689.
1016
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001017When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +01001018highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001019
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +02001020":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
1021
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001022No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
10232017 Dec 26, #2501)
1024
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001025A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
1026
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001027Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
1028
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001029A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
1030Mention where they were defined somewhere.
1031
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001032Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
1033(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
1034
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001035ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1036
1037Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1038
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001039Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
1040Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
1041
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001042Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
1043in #846)
1044Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
1045
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001046Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
1047Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
1048
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001049When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
1050redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001051
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001052In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
1053(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
1054
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001055Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
1056neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001057
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001058Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
1059Nov 21)
1060
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +02001061When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
1062triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
1063set_color_count().
1064
1065Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
1066responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
1067
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001068When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1069CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1070Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1071always nested.
1072
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001073matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1074
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001075Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1076
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001077MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001078for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1079
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001080Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001081(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001082
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001083Test runtime files.
1084Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001085
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001086Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001087
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001088Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1089defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1090Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1091
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001092After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
109313, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001094
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001095When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1096line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1097
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001098The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1099
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001100Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
1101set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
1102
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001103Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1104
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001105Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1106behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1107
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001108'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1109
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001110The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1111
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001112When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1113a command can delete it.
1114
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001115Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1116#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1117
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001118The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
1119for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
1120
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001121X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1122pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1123clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1124Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1125Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1126clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001127Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001128
1129Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1130
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001131Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1132attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
1133that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
1134
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001135Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1136(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1137
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001138Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1139buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1140Also fixes #2166?
1141
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001142Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1143stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1144
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001145Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1146possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1147
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001148When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1149case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1150
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001151Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1152existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1153Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1154
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001155Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001156
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001157MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1158Jul 4)
1159
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001160Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1161Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1162This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1163Christian cannot reproduce it.
1164
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001165Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1166wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1167Or is this not an actual problem?
1168
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001169Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1170
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001171Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
1172
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001173Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1174
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001175'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1176#1736)
1177
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001178Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
11798, #1690)
1180
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001181Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1182(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1183
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001184Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1185it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1186
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001187Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1188Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1189How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1190
1191Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1192(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1193
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001194Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1195
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001196assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1197it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1198
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001199Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1200for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001201
1202Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1203(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1204Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1205later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1206Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1207mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001208Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1209mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001210maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001211
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001212Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001213plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1214be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1215
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001216Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1217 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1218 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001219
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001220json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001221What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001222
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001223Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1224
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001225import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1226(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1227
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001228When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1229buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1230Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001231
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001232Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1233Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001234Another example in #1309
1235
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001236When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1237when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1238
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001239Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1240#1330)
1241
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001242Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1243
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001244Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1245
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001246GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1247g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1248timer expires.
1249
1250Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1251
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001252Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1253highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1254
12558 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1256 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1257
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001258Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1259Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1260
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001261Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1262key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1263 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1264 echo keytrans(xx)
1265 <C-Home>
1266
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001267Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1268(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1269Make a function to check for function-like type?
1270
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001271Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1272(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1273
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +01001274Implement named arguments for functions:
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001275 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001276 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001277
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001278Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1279somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1280
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001281Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1282(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1283
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001284Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001285Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001286Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001287
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001288The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1289"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1290Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1291
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001292Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1293
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001294Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1295about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001296Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1297
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001298Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1299#1053) With patch, does it work?
1300
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001301":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001302vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1303
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001304Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001305E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001306Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001307
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001308Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1309Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1310
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001311Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001312Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001313
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001314"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1315(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1316
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001317Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1318(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001319Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001320
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001321'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1322
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001323Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1324
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001325When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1326Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001327Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001328
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001329Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1330anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1331
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001332Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001333E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001334
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001335Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1336(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1337
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001338Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1339
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001340On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1341separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1342
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001343min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1344contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1345
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001346Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1347
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001348Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1349
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001350Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1351
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001352Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1353no longer support.
1354
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001355sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
13564#1038)
1357
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001358+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001359- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001360- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1361 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1362 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001363- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1364 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001365- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1366 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001367- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1368- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1369 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1370- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1371 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1372- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001373- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1374 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001375- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1376- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1377 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1378 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1379- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1380- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1381- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1382 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1383 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1384- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1385 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1386- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1387 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1388 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1389
1390Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001391- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1392 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1393 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1394 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001395- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1396 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001397- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1398 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1399- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1400 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1401- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1402 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1403 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1404 LC_CTYPE
1405- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1406 matches everywhere.
1407- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1408 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1409- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1410- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1411 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1412- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1413- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1414 2013 Dec 11)
1415- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1416 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1417- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1418- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1419 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1420- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1421- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1422- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1423- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1424 2015 Feb 7)
1425- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1426 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1427 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1428 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1429 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1430- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1431- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1432- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1433- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1434 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1435 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1436 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1437- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1438 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1439- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1440 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1441 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1442 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1443
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001444Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1445#1350)
1446
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001447Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
14483. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1449Also see #1635.
1450
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001451Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001452Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1453use the current behavior.
1454Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001455
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001456When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1457command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1458
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001459Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1460doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1461Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001462Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001463E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1464
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001465execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001466#1141)
1467
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001468cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1469
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001470:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1471
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001472Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1473
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001474When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1475synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1476
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001477Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1478Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001479
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001480Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1481(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1482
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001483ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1484Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001485
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001486Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1487
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001488Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1489Jul 25, #948)
1490
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001491Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1492names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1493Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1494the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1495
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001496'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1497
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001498MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1499Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001500
1501Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1502Also for ":@.".
1503
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001504Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1505
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001506Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1507#1125
1508
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001509Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1510times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1511
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001512Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1513
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001514Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1515
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001516Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1517
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001518Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1519
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001520We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1521the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1522
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001523Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1524
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001525When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1526emoji_width table has only one entry.
1527
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001528It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1529Reject the value? #710.
1530
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001531When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1532Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1533
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001534Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001535
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001536Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1537No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001538
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001539Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1540(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001541
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001542Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1543
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001544Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1545https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1546Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1547
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001548Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1549but the reference remains valid.
1550
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001551Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001552interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1553Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1554interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1555result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001556
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001557Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001558work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001559
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001560Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1561
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001562Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1563
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001564Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1565Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1566
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001567When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1568Apr 17) #762
1569
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001570exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1571Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1572
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001573Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1574'iskeyword' for syntax.
1575
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001576Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1577(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1578
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001579Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1580
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001581When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1582maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001583Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001584
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001585Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1586It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1587Add configure check?
1588Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1589Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1590Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1591
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001592Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1593Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1594
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001595Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1596Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1597
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001598":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1599directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1600
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001601In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1602(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1603
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001604If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
16052016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001606
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001607Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1608(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1609
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001610Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1611
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001612When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1613restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1614Do not trigger the event?
1615
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001616Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1617changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1618and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001619Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1620Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
16216, 2nd message)
1622Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001623
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001624Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1625Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1626https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1627
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001628Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1629With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1630
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001631Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001632
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001633Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1634
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001635Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001636Only remembers one error.
1637
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001638GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001639
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001640Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1641(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001642
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001643Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1644github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001645 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001646Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001647
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001648Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001649
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001650Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001651comparing individual items.
1652Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1653Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1654Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1655equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1656
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001657Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1658
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001659MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1660wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1661
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001662Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1663specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1664
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001665Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1666(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1667
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001668Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001669inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001670
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001671Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1672(Luchr, #277)
1673
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001674Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001675'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1676before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001677
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001678C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1679and also line continuation after #include.
1680I can't recommend it though.
1681
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001682Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1683(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1684
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001685To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1686library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1687
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001688When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1689is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1690
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001691Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
169230)
1693
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001694MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1695(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1696
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001697The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
169824): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001699
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001700":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1701effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1702
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001703":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
17049)
1705
1706The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1707wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1708
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001709Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001710Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001711
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001712When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1713the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1714
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001715Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001716slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1717inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1718
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001719ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
17202014 Sep 11)
1721
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001722Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1723(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1724
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001725When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1726'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1727
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001728Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1729Work in progress.
1730
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001731Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1732when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1733
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001734Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1735Is this right?
1736
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001737Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1738(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1739Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1740
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001741Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1742Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001743
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001744Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1745Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1746
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001747Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1748
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001749When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1750filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1751initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1752
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001753Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1754
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001755Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1756OK to not block marks?
1757
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001758Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1759
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001760Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1761
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001762When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1763(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1764
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001765Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001766
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001767Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1768(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1769
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001770When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1771any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1772
1773Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001774
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001775Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001776
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001777Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1778(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1779
1780Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1781
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001782Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1783Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1784was already defined.
1785(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1786
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001787Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1788
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001789Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001790Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001791Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001792Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001793
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001794Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1795(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1796
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001797Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1798(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1799
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001800Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1801
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001802When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1803these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1804window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1805
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001806Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1807should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1808history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1809Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1810
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001811"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1812Jun 8)
1813
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001814Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1815insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1816
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001817No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1818
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001819Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1820(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1821Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1822arguments.
1823
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001824Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1825
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001826Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001827
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001828Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
18290x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1830New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1831compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1832
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001833Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1834a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1835
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001836Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1837right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001838its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001839
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001840Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1841
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001842This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1843 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1844This neither: (ZyX)
1845 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1846
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001847'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1848Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1849from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001850
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001851Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
18522014 Jun 8)
1853
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001854Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001855Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001856Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1857Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1858User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001859- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1860 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1861 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001862- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1863- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1864 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1865 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1866 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1867 on vim.org.
1868- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1869 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1870- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1871- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1872- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1873- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1874Implementation:
1875- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1876 plugin separate.
1877- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1878 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1879 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1880- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1881 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1882- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1883 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1884 installing.
1885Out of scope:
1886- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1887- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1888 useful).
1889
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001890Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1891normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001892
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001893When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1894menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1895
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001896Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1897(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1898
1899":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1900various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001901
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001902Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001903(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1904
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001905VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1906instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1907
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001908Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001909Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001910
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001911Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001912command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001913
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001914Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1915
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001916Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1917highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001918
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001919The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1920For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1921
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001922Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001923possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001924
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001925Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001926
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001927Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1928
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010019297 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1930 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1931 "lucida_console:h8").
1932Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1933
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001934:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1935
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001936Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1937
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001938Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1939
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001940When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1941(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1942
1943Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001944Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001945
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001946GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1947(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1948
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001949Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1950registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1951
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001952Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1953
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001954The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1955(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1956Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1957
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001958The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1959- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1960- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1961
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001962Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1963Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1964reliably?
1965
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001966Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1967(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1968
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001969Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1970(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1971
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001972Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
19732013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001974
1975Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1976
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001977Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
19785)
1979
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001980Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1981carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1982
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001983Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1984highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1985
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001986Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001987
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001988Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200198928) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001990
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001991Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1992
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001993Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1994
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001995- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1996 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1997Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001998
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001999Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002000
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02002001In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
2002process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
2003a reboot.
2004
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002005patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
2006
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002007Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
2008not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002009
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002010Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
2011Or use expand('<sid>')?
2012
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002013Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
2014
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01002015Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
2016
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002017b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
20187)
2019
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02002020Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
2021compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
2022
2023Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
2024Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
2025vim.bindeval().
2026
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002027Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
20282012 Aug 4)
2029
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002030Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
2031(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
2032
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002033Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
2034But use Gnome instead of GTK?
2035
2036Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
2037Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
2038Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002039
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002040Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
2041loading all files.
2042
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002043MS-Windows resizing problems:
2044- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
2045 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
2046- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
2047 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
2048 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002049
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002050'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002051
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02002052Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02002053of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
2054
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002055The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
2056Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
2057But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002058
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002059When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
2060is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
2061
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002062URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002063- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002064- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
2065 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
2066
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02002067Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
2068(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
2069Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
2070
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002071Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02002072New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002073
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002074When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
2075for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
2076Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002077
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02002078Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
2079
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01002080Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
2081
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002082Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
2083Apr 18)
2084
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002085Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
2086And one for gui_x11.txt.
2087
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002088":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
2089finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
2090Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
2091
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002092Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
2093
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01002094Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
2095
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002096Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
2097they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
2098
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002099Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
2100
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002101Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
2102Nov 20)
2103
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002104Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002105Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002106
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002107`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002108(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
2109
2110Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
2111
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01002112BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
2113Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
2114
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002115Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2116Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
2117
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002118Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
2119
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002120On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
21212012 Jun 19)
2122
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002123'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
2124'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
2125Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002126Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02002127
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002128With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
2129(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
2130need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2131
2132Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2133only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
213421, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2135
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002136Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2137New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2138
2139Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2140Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2141
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002142Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2143Jan 19)
2144
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002145Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2146discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2147meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002148
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002149"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002150Oct 26)
2151
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002152Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2153
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002154With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2155register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002156
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002157Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2158
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002159When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2160(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2161
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002162When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2163then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2164from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2165
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002166Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2167":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
216815)
2169
2170Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2171
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002172BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2173cleared. See test64.
2174
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002175Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002176effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002177Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01002178https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002179
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002180On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
218164 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2182right type.
2183
2184string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2185(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2186
2187When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2188(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002189When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2190following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2191(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002192
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002193When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2194doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2195
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002196Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2197
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002198maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
2199mapping, how to restore the script ID?
2200
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002201Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
2202(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
2203
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002204When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2205indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2206the help file.
2207
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002208After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2209Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2210
2211Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2212
2213"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2214
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002215Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2216
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002217Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002218
2219Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
22202010 Dec 18)
2221
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002222With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2223number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2224Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2225
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002226Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2227Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2228
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020022298 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2230Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2231
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002232Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2233one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2234the match scrolls into view.
2235
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020022367 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2237Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2238Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2239
22409 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2241 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2242Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2243
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002244Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2245Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2246
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002247In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2248or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2249sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2250
2251GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2252doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2253
2254GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2255
2256Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2257Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2258
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002259Wish for NetBeans commands:
2260 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2261
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002262Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2263
22647.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2265there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2266do?
2267
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002268Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
226922)
2270
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002271New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2272- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002273- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002274 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2275
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002276"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
22772011 Feb 27)
2278
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002279Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2280^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2281
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002282When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2283exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
22849) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2285
2286g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2287the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2288
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002289Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2290crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2291
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002292Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2293number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2294
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002295Regexp engine performance:
2296- Profiling:
2297 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2298 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2299 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2300 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2301 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2302 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2303- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2304- Performance tests:
2305 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2306 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2307 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2308 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2309 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2310 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2311 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2312 'hlsearch'.
2313 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2314 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2315 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2316 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2317
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002318Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2319Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2320
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002321'beval' option should be global-local.
2322
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002323Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002324
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002325setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002326
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002327With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
23282010 Oct 24)
2329
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002330Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2331
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002332When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2333Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2334
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002335":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2336
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002337'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2338
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002339C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2340checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2341Issue 46.
2342
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002343Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2344
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002345Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2346gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2347
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002348":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2349accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2350
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002351Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2352setwinvar().
2353
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002354Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002355
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002356When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2357instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2358
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002359Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2360Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2361Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002362
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002363Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2364back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2365
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002366Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002367Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2368
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002369CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2370the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2371FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2372
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002373Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2374Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2375
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002376Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2377Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2378
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002379Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2380
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002381Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2382non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002383
2384iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2385Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2386or replace with a character and continue?
2387
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002388Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2389Requires configure check for localtime().
2390Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2391
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002392Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2393Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2394
2395Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2396
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002397Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2398Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2399path.
2400
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002401Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002402Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002403
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002404'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2405
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002406":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2407like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2408
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002409Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2410https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002411
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002412Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
24132010 Nov 5)
2414
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002415Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002416Jan 7)
2417
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002418Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2419
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002420With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2421entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2422Feb 12)
2423
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002424Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2425characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2426
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002427Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2428
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002429Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2430 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2431
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002432Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2433
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002434When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2435Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2436
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002437When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2438not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2439string value.
2440
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002441For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002442line argument -noregister.
2443
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002444When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2445missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2446
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002447When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2448doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002449
2450Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2451(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2452Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2453There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2454Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2455
2456":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2457highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2458to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2459
2460Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2461Probably needs a bit of work.
2462
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002463List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002464Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2465
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002466Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2467
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002468Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2469
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002470Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2471Sep 1)
2472
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002473Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2474
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002475Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2476on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2477
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002478Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
24792009 Jul 18)
2480
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002481Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2482window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2483Needs more work.
2484
2485Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2486
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002487When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2488few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2489
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002490'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002491(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2492
2493Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2494J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2495
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002496When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2497for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2498
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002499Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2500
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002501":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2502because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2503ex_docmd.c.
2504
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002505Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002506Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2507
2508string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2509for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2510
2511Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2512
2513'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
251420)
2515
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002516Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
25172009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2518
2519Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2520
2521Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2522SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2523
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002524When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2525indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2526(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2527
2528Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2529are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2530Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2531Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2532that doesn't have a window.
2533
2534When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2535doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2536
2537getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2538displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2539
2540":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2541
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002542There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2543was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2544perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2545
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002546Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2547
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002548Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2549command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2550
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002551Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2552does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2553
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002554opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2555height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002556very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002557
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002558Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2559(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2560
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002561Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002562(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2563
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002564Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2565char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2566
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002567Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2568Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2569
2570This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2571
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002572Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2573messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2574es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
25752009 Jan 26)
2576
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002577When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002578in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2579Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2580
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002581Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2582a modeline.
2583
2584Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2585Sergey Khorev)
2586
2587Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2588part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002589
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002590After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2591correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2592
2593Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2594(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2595
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002596shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002597'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2598Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2599unix-like shell?
2600
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002601Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2602register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2603(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2604
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002605Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2606Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2607
2608Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2609make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2610
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002611When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2612still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2613
2614"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2615(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2616
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002617Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2618that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2619ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2620Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2621
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002622MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2623doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2624probably causes this.
2625
2626'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020026272009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002628
2629Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2630 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2631 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2632(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2633
2634Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2635":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2636option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2637is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002638
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002639":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2640first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002641Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002642
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002643Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2644laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2645Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002646
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002647Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2648anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2649
2650On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2651doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2652Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2653Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2654
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002655When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2656'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2657fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2658the buffer to be unmodified.
2659Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2660another look at it.
2661
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002662c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2663(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2664
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002665You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2666error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2667Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2668at the other match for 0xBF.
2669
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002670When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2671argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2672
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002673Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2674backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2675
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002676When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2677line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2678
2679Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2680position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2681
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002682After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2683(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002684command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002685
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002686":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2687Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2688
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002689When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2690either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2691put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2692
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002693Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2694Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2695Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2696Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2697(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2698
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002699Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2700
2701ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002702
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002703Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2704(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2705escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2706an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002707This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2708July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002709Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2710work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2711
2712When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
271331)
2714
2715Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2716work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2717Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002718
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002719Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2720multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2721(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2722
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002723Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
27242008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002725Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002726
2727Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2728Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2729'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2730
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002731Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2732Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2733
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002734Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2735Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2736
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020027378 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2738 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2739 several).
2740 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2741 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2742 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2743Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2744
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002745The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002746 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002747 0x2217, star
2748 0x2500, bar
2749 0x26ab, circle
2750
2751Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2752line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2753
2754GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2755Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2756
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002757Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2758try the Cocoa version.
2759
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002760Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2761changed or the window is resized.
2762
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002763GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2764the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2765
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002766Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2767Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002768
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002769Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
27701) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2771
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002772C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2773with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2774Try to reproduce at work.
2775
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002776Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2777Is there a way to list all the files first?
2778
2779When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2780result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
278116)
2782
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002783Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2784(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2785
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002786Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2787Await response to question to make the register writable.
2788
2789Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
27901)
2791
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002792In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2793each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2794
2795try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2796
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002797try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2798
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002799":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2800Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2801
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002802Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2803
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002804Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2805Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2806
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002807Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2808Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2809Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002810
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002811When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2812and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2813
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002814Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2815 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2816
2817New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2818
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002819":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2820a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2821
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002822'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2823Likonen, March 19)
2824
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002825Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2826other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2827
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002828The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2829appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2830matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2831
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002832When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2833character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2834'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2835(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2836
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002837Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2838Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002839
2840More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2841
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002842Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2843http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2844
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002845Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2846back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2847Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002848
2849Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2850No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2851
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002852Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2853terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002854
2855Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2856
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002857Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2858but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2859that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002860
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002861Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2862Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2863
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002864Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2865popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2866size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2867This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2868
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002869When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2870it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2871
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002872Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2873then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2874files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002875Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2876indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2877":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002878in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2879quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002880Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002881
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002882When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2883parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2884neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2885particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2886Jun 3)
2887However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2888the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002889
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002890A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2891Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2892
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002893Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2894Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2895
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002896Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2897switch list is noticed:
2898 switch (i)
2899 {
2900 case 1:
2901 foobar:
2902 }
2903
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002904Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2905
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002906Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2907with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2908go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2909moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2910
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002911Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002912GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002913Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2914argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2915(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2916
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002917Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2918(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2919
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002920Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
29212007 Feb 8)
2922
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002923Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2924set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002925
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002926Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2927
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002928Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2929Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2930New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2931patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2932
2933Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2934Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2935
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002936Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002937label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2938
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002939Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2940with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2941Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002942
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002943Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2944
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002945Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2946Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2947only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2948
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002949Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2950Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002951Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002952properly?
2953
2954Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
29552007 Jun 21)
2956
2957When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2958Jun 18)
2959
2960If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2961
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002962Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2963windows. (Adam George)
2964
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002965In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2966the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2967
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002968C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2969
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002970":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2971
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002972When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002973error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002974
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002975GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002976use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2977
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002978Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2979if_ruby.c.
2980
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002981":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2982
2983The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2984it in keep_msg?
2985
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002986Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002987error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002988name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2989
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002990Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2991longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002992
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002993Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2994Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2995Also for ":w" without a file name.
2996The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002997
2998"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2999Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
3000
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003001VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
3002directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
3003(Zoltan Arpadffy)
3004
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003005VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
3006
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003007input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
3008name?
3009
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003010Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
3011
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003012When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
3013(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01003014Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003015will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
3016
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003017gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
3018This also fails with --remote.
3019
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003020When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
30212008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
3022all places where buf_freeall() is called?
3023
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003024aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
3025
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003026When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
3027(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
3028
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003029Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
3030the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
3031
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003032GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
3033
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003034Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
3035superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
3036
3037Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
3038character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
3039
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003040Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
3041Jun 5)
3042
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003043Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
30442008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
3045Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
3046
3047In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
3048but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
3049Jul 22)
3050
3051There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
3052
3053Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
3054":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
3055somehow? Or use a new function.
3056
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003057Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
3058
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003059Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
3060moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
3061that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
3062
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003063The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
3064
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003065When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003066cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
3067the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
3068
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003069These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
3070 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
3071 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
3072 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
3073
3074Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
3075partly. (2006 Dec 7)
3076
3077In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
3078buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
3079reload it then?
3080
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003081For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
3082
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003083Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
3084only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
3085
3086Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
3087tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
3088doesn't contain other directories.
3089
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01003090Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
3091Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
3092
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01003093Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
3094 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
3095 set background=dark
3096This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
3097color is, not reset it.
3098
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003099Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
3100start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
3101show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
3102middle?
3103
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003104Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
3105
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003106When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
3107current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
3108the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
3109
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003110When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
3111Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
3112
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003113Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
3114Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
3115
3116Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
3117
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003118A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
3119Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
3120
3121Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
3122Dara, 2006 June 21)
3123
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003124Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
3125number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
3126
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003127After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
3128the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
3129
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003130Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003131
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003132Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3133Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3134
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003135Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010031362008 Sep 29)
3137
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003138In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3139check the result of has("patch13").
3140
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003141Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3142restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3143
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003144Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3145and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3146
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003147Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3148put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3149
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003150Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3151resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3152
3153In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3154can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3155
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003156GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3157maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3158doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003159Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3160visible.
3161
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003162When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3163differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003164
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003165The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3166be only one.
3167
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003168Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003169"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3170name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3171Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003172
3173Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3174(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3175
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003176Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3177as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3178
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003179Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
318023)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003181
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003182":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3183tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3184Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003185
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003186When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3187text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3188latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3189
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003190Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3191no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3192
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003193In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3194VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
31952007 Oct 16)
3196
3197TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3198Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3199
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003200Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003201
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003202When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3203typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3204Sep 3, 11)
3205
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003206":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3207this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3208
3209When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3210Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3211restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3212
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003213Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
32142010 Jun 30)
3215
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003216Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3217'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3218(Kartik Agaram)
3219
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003220
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003221Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003222- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3223 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3224- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3225 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3226 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3227- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3228 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3229 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003230- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3231- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003232
3233
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003234More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003235- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3236 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003237- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003238- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3239 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003240- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3241- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3242- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3243 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3244 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003245- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003246- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3247 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3248- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3249 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3250- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3251 21)
3252- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3253 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3254- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3255 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003256- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3257 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003258- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3259 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3260 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3261 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3262 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003263- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003264
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003265Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000032669 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3267 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3268 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3269 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3270 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3271 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3272 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3273 (Alan Schmitt)
3274 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003275 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3276 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000032779 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003278 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000032798 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032807 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3281 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3282 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032838 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003284 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020032857 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003286 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3287- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3288 for multi-byte characters.
3289- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3290- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3291 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3292 been given values.
3293 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032947 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3295 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3296- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3297 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3298 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
32998 Add functions:
3300 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3301 Update 2004 Sep 10
3302 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3303 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003304 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003305 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3306 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3307 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3308 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3309 (2003 May 13)
3310 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3311 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003312 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3313 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003314 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3315 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3316 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033177 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3318 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033197 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3320 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000033218 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3322 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033237 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
33248 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3325 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
33267 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3327 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033287 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3329- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3330 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3331 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003332- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3333 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3334- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3335
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003336Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3337- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3338 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3339
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003340Quickfix/Location List:
3341- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3342 #2999)
3343- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3344 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3345 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3346 the quickfix buffer?
3347- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3348 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3349- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3350 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3351- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3352 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3353 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3354- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3355 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3356- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3357- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3358 2007 Jan 1)
3359- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3360 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3361- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3362 errors. How do we get the rest?
33638 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3364 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3365 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3366 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
33677 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3368 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003369
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003370Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003371- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3372 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033738 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3374 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3375 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3376 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3377 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3378 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033798 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3380 make Vim exit.
33817 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3382 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3383 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
33848 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3385 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3386 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
33876 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3388 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3389 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
33908 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3391 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3392 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3393 names in one buffer???
3394 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3395 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3396 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
33977 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3398 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3399 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003400 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3401 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034027 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3403 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
34047 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
34057 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034067 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3407 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3408 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3409 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
34107 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
34117 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
34127 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3413 to the match with the tag? Option?
34147 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
34157 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3416 (Sayre).
34177 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3418 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034197 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3420 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3421 match. Nvi can do it too.
34227 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3423 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3424 line 1\ line 2\\
3425 line 2\ line 3\\
3426 . line4/
34276 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3428 the way the shell is started?
34296 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3430 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3431
3432
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003433GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000034349 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034358 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3436 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3437 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000034388 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3439 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3440 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034419 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3442 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3443 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3444 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003445- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3446 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3447 blocked for now.
3448
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003449
3450Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003451- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3452 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034538 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3454 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3455 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034566 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3457 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000034588 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3459 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3460 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034617 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3462 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3463 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034647 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3465 2004 May 9)
34668 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3467 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3468 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3469 MS-Windows 98?
3470 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3471 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3472 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3473 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034748 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3475 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3476 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3477 doesn't work properly.
34788 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3479 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3480 appears in the right position. (Webb)
34819 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3482 button doesn't give popup menu.
3483 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3484 selection.
3485 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3486 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3487 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
34888 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3489 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3490 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3491 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
34928 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3493 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3494 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034957 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3496 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003497 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034987 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3499 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035006 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
35018 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3502 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3503 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
35048 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3505 know which keyboard is being used?
35067 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3507 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3508 area (Koloseike).
35098 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3510 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3511 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3512 the font name).
3513
3514
3515Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000035166 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3517 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3518 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3519 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3520 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035219 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3522 required and it's missing?
35238 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3524 wrong.
35259 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3526 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000035279 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003528 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3529 flag.
35308 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3531 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3532 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
35338 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
35346 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3535 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3536 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3537 the tooltips work though...
35387 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3539 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
35408 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3541 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3542 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3543
3544
3545Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010035469 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3547 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035489 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3549 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3550 through files.
35517 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3552 read long file names. (Schroeder)
35534 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3554 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3555 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3556 problem during a refresh.
35575 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3558 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3559 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3560 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3561 colors as it should.
3562 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3563 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3564
3565
3566Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003567- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035687 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3569 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035708 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3571 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3572 (Phillipps)
3573
3574
3575GUI:
35769 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3577 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
35789 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003579 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003580 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
35819 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3582 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
35838 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3584 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
35858 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3586 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3587 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
35888 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3589 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3590 of where it is processing the output.
3591 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
35928 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3593 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010035948 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000035958 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3596 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3597 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020035988 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035998 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3600 browse().
36018 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3602 use that code? Or use console dialog.
36038 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3604 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000036057 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3606 - regexp on/off
3607 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3608 when all buffers/directory is used:
3609 - filter for file name
3610 when directory is used:
3611 - subdirectory on/off
3612 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036138 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3614 to avoid problems.
36158 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3616 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3617 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
36188 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3619 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3620 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
36218 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3622 up. Set erase character somehow?
36238 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3624 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3625 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3626 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
36278 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
36287 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3629 visible.
36307 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3631 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
36327 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3633 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
36348 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3635 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
36368 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3637 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3638 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3639 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3640- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
36414 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3642 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3643 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3644
3645
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003646Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000036478 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3648 a good fallback, thus use:
3649 $HOME
3650 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3651 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3652 $USERPROFILE
3653 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3654 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3655 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3656 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036578 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3658 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
36598 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3660 Should work like in the GUI version.
36618 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3662 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
36638 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3664 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
36658 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3666 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3667 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036688 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3669 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3670 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3671
3672
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003673Win32 console:
36749 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3675 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3676 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3677 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3678 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3679 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3680 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3681 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3682 and the file is not saved.
3683 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3684 long name.
36858 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3686 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
36877 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3688 besides the console.
36898 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
36909 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3691 <C-S-i>?
36929 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3693 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
36948 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3695 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003696
3697
3698Amiga:
36998 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3700 sequences.
37019 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3702 backslashes in result.
37038 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3704 all options, using white space separation.
3705
3706
3707Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003708- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037097 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3710 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3711 (Jack)
3712 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037138 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3714 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037158 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
37168 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
37179 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3718 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037199 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003720
3721
3722"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003723- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3724 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003725- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3726 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003727- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3728 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3729 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3730 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3731 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3732 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3733 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000037349 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3735 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000037369 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003737 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3738 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037398 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3740 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3741 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003742 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037437 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3744 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
37458 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3746 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3747 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037487 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3749 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003750- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3751 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037528 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3753 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3754 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3755 using the horizontal scrollbar.
37567 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3757 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3758 invocations belong together.
37598 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3760 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
37618 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3762 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3763 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003764 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000037658 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3766 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3767 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037688 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3769 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037707 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3771 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3772 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3773 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037747 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3775 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3776 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
37777 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3778 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3779 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
37807 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3781 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037827 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3783 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037849 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3785 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3786 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3787 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3788 script can be called.
37898 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3790 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3791 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037928 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3793 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000037948 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003795 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3796 configurable?
37978 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037988 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3799 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038008 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3801 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038028 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3803 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038049 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3805 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3806 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038077 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038088 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3809 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3810 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000038118 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3812 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003813 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3814 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038158 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3816 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
38179 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3818 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3819 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003820 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038217 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3822 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038237 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3824 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3825 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3826 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038278 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003828 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3829 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3830 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3831 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003832 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3833 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003834 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003835 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003836 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3837 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3838 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3839 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3840 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038418 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3842 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
38438 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3844 in lines that don't extend into the block?
38458 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3846 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3847 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
38488 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3849 'linebreak'.
38508 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3851 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3852 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038539 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3854 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3855 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3856 'magic' in history. (Margo)
38579 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3858 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038599 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
38609 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3861 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3862 cause another redraw, etc.
38638 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3864 must escape special characters in the pattern.
38658 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3866 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3867 ":w!!" for that.
3868 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3869 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003870 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038717 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3872 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3873 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3874 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3875 clipboard)
38767 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3877 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3878 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000038796 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3880 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3881 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038828 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3883 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
38848 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3885 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3886 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
38878 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3888 (e.g., ":w").
38898 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3890 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038918 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3892 script in do_cmdline().
38938 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3894 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3895 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3896 changes.
38978 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3898 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
38998 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3900 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039018 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3902 to skip catch_signals()?
39039 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3904 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3905 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3906 text?
39078 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3908 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
39098 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3910 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
39119 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3912 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3913 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3914 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3915 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
39167 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3917 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3918 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3919 in the list?
39208 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3921 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3922 instead of on button down.
39238 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
39249 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3925 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003926 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3927 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039288 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3929 character is typed.
39308 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3931 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
39328 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3933 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
39348 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3935 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3936 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3937 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3938 cygwin bash.
39397 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3940 Remember flags for backreferences.
39417 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3942 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
39437 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3944 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
39458 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3946 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
39477 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3948 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039497 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3950 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3951 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
39527 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3953 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
39548 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3955 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3956 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
39577 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3958 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003959
3960
3961I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
39629 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3963 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3964 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003965
3966
3967Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003968- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3969 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3970 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003971- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3972 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3973 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3974 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3975 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3976 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003977 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003978- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3979 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003980 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003981 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3982 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3983 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003984- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3985 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3986 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3987 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3988 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3989- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3990 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3991 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3992- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3993 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003994- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003995- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3996 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3997 character gets the highlighting.
3998- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3999 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
4000- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
4001 (Jennings)
4002- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004003- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004004- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004005 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004006- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
4007 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
4008 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
4009- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
4010 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
4011 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
4012 (Benzinger).
4013- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
4014 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
4015 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
4016- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
4017 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
4018- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
4019 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
4020- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
4021 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
4022 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
4023 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
4024 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
4025 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
4026- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
4027 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
4028 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01004029- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
4030 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
4031 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004032- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
4033 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
4034 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
4035- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
4036 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
4037- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
4038 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004039- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
4040 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
4041- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
4042 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
4043 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
4044 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
4045 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
4046- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
4047 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
4048 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
4049- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
4050 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
4051 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00004052- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
4053 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 +00004054- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
4055 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
4056 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
4057 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
4058 in the vimrc file to be lost.
4059- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
4060 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
4061
4062--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
4063 *extensions-improvements*
4064
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004065Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
4066- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
4067 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
4068 calling a function.
4069 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
4070 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004071- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
4072 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01004073 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004074- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
4075 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
4076 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
4077 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
4078 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
4079 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004080 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004081- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
4082 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
4083 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004084- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
4085 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000040868 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
4087 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
4088 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
4089 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00004090- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
4091 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004092
4093
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004094Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040958 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
4096 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000040978 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
4098 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000040998 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
4100 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041018 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041029 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
4103 - change to cursor position and curswant
4104 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
4105 - how it works for folded lines
4106 - how it works with multi-byte characters
41079 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
4108 work too.
41098 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
4110 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
4111 text.
41128 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
41137 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
4114 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
41157 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
4116 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004117 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004118- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
4119
4120
4121Help:
4122- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
4123 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
4124- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
4125 to the other matches.
4126- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004127- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
4128 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
4129 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
4130 default contents.
4131- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4132 height for the help window (and other windows).
4133- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4134- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4135- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4136
4137
4138User Friendlier:
41398 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4140 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4141 Briscoe)
41428 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
41438 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4144 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4145 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
41468 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4147 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4148- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4149 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004150- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
41519 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4152 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4153 item?).
4154 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041558 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000041567 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4157 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4158 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000041598 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4160 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4161 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4162 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004163
4164
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004165Tab pages:
41669 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041677 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4168 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000041698 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000041708 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000041717 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000041727 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004173 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000041748 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4175 tab pages.
41767 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4177
4178
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004179Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004180- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004181 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004182- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4183 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4184 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4185- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4186 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004187- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4188 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4189 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004190- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4191 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4192 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004193- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4194 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004195- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004196 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4197 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000041988 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4199 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
42008 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4201 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
42028 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4203 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004204 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004205 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4206 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4207 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4208 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004209- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4210 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004211- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004212- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4213 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004214- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004215 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004216- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004217 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004218- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4219 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004220- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4221 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4222- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004223 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004224 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4225 in the affix file separately.
4226 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004227 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004228 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4229 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4230 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4231- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4232 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4233 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4234 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4235 Alternative:
4236 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4237 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4238 affix which is required.
4239- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004240 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004241- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4242 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4243 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004244- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4245 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004246- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4247 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4248- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000042498 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4250 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4251 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4252 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004253- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4254 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4255 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4256 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042578 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4258 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000042598 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
42608 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4261 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000042627 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
42638 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4264 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4265 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4266 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004267
4268
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004269Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020042709 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4271 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020042728 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004273 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004274
4275Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004276 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4277 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042788 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4279 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020042808 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4281 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042828 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4283 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4284 user aware of this?
42858 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4286 commands skip over a closed fold.
42878 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
42888 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042897 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004290- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4291 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4292 missing line goes unnoticed.
4293 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004294- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4295 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4296 smoother?
4297- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4298 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004299- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4300 file can contain:
4301 args version.c main.c
4302 edit version.c
4303 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004304- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004305- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4306 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004307- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4308 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004309- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4310 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004311- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004312
4313Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004314- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4315 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4316 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4317 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043189 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4319 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4320 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4321 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020043229 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4323 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4324 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043258 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4326 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4327 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4328 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4329 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4330 item.
43318 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004332 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4333 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043348 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4335 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043368 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4337 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4338 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043397 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4340 so that the user can fix the problem.
43418 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4342 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043439 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
43448 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043458 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
43468 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043477 Searching and composing characters:
4348 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004349 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4350 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043518 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
43528 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
43538 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4354 characters.
43558 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
43568 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4357 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
43587 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4359 'display' option to specify this.
43607 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4361 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4362- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4363 fontselector somehow.
4364- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4365 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4366- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4367 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4368- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4369 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4370 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4371 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4372 if a font exists?
4373- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004374 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004375- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4376 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004377- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4378 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4379 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4380 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004381- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4382 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004383 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004384- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4385 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4386 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4387 But it's very complicated...
4388
4389
4390Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000043917 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004392- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4393- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4394 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004395- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4396 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004397- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4398- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4399 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004400- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4401 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004402- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4403 units as for the margins.
4404- Support right-to-left text?
44058 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4406 color.
4407
4408
4409Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044108 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4411 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
44128 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4413 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
44148 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4415 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000044167 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4417 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044188 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4419 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4420 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044217 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4422 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4423 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044248 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
44259 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4426 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044277 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4428 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000044297 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4430 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044318 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4432 change this for each release.
44338 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4434 pattern, but not in the body.
44358 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4436 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4437 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044388 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010044398 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004440 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4441 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044428 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4443 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
44448 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4445 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004446 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044478 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4448 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4449 used.
44508 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4451 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
44528 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4453 re-insert the [] if possible.
44548 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4455 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000044568 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4457 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4458 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4459 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4460 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044618 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4462 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
44638 Support for deleting syntax items:
4464 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4465 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4466 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
44678 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4468 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4469 a '<'. (Fleiner)
44707 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4471 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4472 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
44737 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4474 detected.
44758 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004476 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044778 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4478 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044798 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
44808 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
44817 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4482 ":mkvimrc".
44838 Improve c.vim:
4484 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4485 "c_strict_ansi".
4486 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
44878 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4488 current line while in Insert mode.
44898 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4490 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
44918 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4492 display position.
44938 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4494 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4495 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
44968 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4497 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4498 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000044997 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4500 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4501 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4502 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4503 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045047 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4505 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4506 E.g. for this html:
4507 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045087 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
45097 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4510 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045118 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
45128 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045137 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4514 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4515 completion?
45168 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4517 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
45187 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4519 select one of the sets.
45208 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4521 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4522 2, etc.
45238 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4524 highlighting (for "." command).
45258 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4526 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
45278 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
45287 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4529 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
45306 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4531 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4532- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4533 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4534- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004535- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4536 (for comment blocks).
4537- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4538 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4539 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4540 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4541 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4542 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4543 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4544 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4545 (Campbell)
4546 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4547 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
45487 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4549 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
45507 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4551 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4552 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
45537 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4554 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4555 messages. And external commands?
45568 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4557 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
45587 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4559 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4560
4561
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004562Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045638 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4564 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004565 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000045667 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4567 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4568 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045698 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4570 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004571- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020045728 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4573 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4574 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4575 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4576 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4577 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000045787 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4579 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045808 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010045818 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4582 can be the plugin name.
4583 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4584 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045857 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4586 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4587 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4588 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4589 autocommand.
4590 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4591 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4592 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4593 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045947 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4595 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045966 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4597 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045988 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004599 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4600 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004601 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4602 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4603 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004604 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4605 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4606 3 2002
4607 Only add this when also implemented for
4608 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4609 be used.
4610 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004611 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4612 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4613 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4614 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4615 File.Open..." argument.
4616 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4617 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4618 with properties instead.
4619 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4620 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4621 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004622 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004623 crypt() encrypt string
4624 decrypt() decrypt string
4625 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4626 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004627 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004628 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004629 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004630 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004631 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004632 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4633 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004634 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4635 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004636 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004637 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4638 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4639 to allow the library to execute a command or
4640 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046417 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4642 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
46438 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4644 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046458 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4646 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046478 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046486 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000046498 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4650 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046518 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4652 option or environment variable.
46538 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046548 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004655 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000046567 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4657 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046588 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4659 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
46608 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
46618 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4662 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4663 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4664 charwise({expr}).
46657 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4666 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4667 buffer for this?
4668 result = scratch(string, command)
4669 result = apply(string, command)
4670 result = execute(string, command)
4671 "command" would use <> notation.
4672 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
46737 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004674
4675
4676Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000046776 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4678 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4679 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4680 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4681 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4682 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4683 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004684
4685
4686Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046877 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4688 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020046897 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4690 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4691 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4692 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046938 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4694 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4695 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4696 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004697 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046988 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
46999 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
47008 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
47017 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4702 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
47038 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4704 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4705 when starting up in a color terminal.
47068 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4707 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047088 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4709 function be improved?
47108 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4711 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4712 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4713 this be improved?
47148 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4715 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000047167 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4717 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047187 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4719 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
47207 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4721 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047227 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4723 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4724 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4725 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4726 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4727 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4728 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047298 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4730 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4731 using strcmp() too often?
47327 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4733 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4734 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4735 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4736 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4737 the two blocks to the memfile block.
47387 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4739 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4740 with an argument that can be messed with.
4741 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4742 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
47437 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4744- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
47458 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4746 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4747- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4748 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4749- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4750- Do profiling on:
4751 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004752 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4753 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4754 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4755 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4756 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4757 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004758 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047597 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4760 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4761 changed).
4762 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4763 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4764- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4765- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4766 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4767- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4768 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4769 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004770- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4771- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4772 cursor is right of the screen.
47738 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4774 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4775
4776
4777Code size:
47788 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4779- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4780 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
47818 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
47828 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4783 it.
47847 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4785 left out.
47868 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4787 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010047888 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004789
4790
4791Messages:
47928 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4793 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
47948 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4795 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
47968 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4797 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004798- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4799 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4800- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048018 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4802 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048039 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4804 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4805 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4806 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4807 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048088 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4809 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
48108 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4811 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4812 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4813 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4814 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4815 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004816- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004817 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048188 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4819 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4820 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4821 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4822 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4823 error messages, printing text, etc.
48248 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4825 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4826 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4827
4828
4829Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004830- screen_line():
4831 - insert/delete character stuff.
4832 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4833- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4834 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4835- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4836 waiting for a character.
48378 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4838 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4839 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004840
4841Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020048428 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048436 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4844- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4845 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4846 windows.
48477 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4848 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4849 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4850- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4851 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4852 (Goldfarb)
4853- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4854 bound windows.
4855- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4856 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004857- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004858- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4859 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4860 of lines but not with a single line).
4861
4862
4863Autoconf:
48648 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
48658 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4866 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4867- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4868 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4869- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4870- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4871- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4872
4873
4874Perl interface:
48758 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048767 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
48777 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
48786 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4879
4880
4881Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020048828 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4883 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048846 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4885 :libload internal-name libname
4886 :libunload internal-name
4887 :liblist
4888 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4889 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4890 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
48916 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4892
4893
4894Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000048959 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4896 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4897 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4898 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4899 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000049008 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4901 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4902 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004903 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004904 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000049057 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4906 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4907 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049088 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
49098 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4910 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049117 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4912 window for each tag.
49137 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
49147 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4915 bottom" search message.
49167 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4917 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4918 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004919- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4920- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004921- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4922 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4923 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049247 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4925 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4926 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4927 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
49287 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4929 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4930 :tagargs clear
4931 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4932 matching).
49337 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4934 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4935 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4936 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
49377 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4938 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
49397 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4940 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4941 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004942
4943
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004944Win32 GUI:
49458 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4946 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049477 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4948 (Mike McCollister)
49498 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4950 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4951 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4952 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4953 common part of the path.
49548 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
49558 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4956 gettext and menus work.
49578 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4958 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004959 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004960 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
49618 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4962 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
49638 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4964 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
49657 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4966 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
49677 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
49687 <Esc> should close a dialog.
49697 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4970 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4971 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4972 prompts.
49737 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4974 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4975 the file added into an already running Vim.
49767 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4977 functions to find the window title.
4978
4979
4980GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020049818 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004982- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4983 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
49847 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
49858 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
49866 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
49878 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4988 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
49899 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
49907 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
49918 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4992 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
49938 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4994 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4995 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
49968 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4997 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
49988 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4999 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
5000 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
5001 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050027 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
50038 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
5004 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050057 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
5006 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
5007 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050088 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
50098 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00005010 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050118 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
50128 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
50138 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
5014 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
5015 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
50167 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
5017 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
5018 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
50197 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
5020 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
50217 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
5022 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
5023 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
5024 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050257 Should support multi-column menus.
5026- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
5027 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
5028- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
50298 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
50306 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
5031 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
50327 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
50337 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
5034 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
5035 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
50367 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
50378 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
5038 name can be chosen free.
50397 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
5040 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
50416 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
5042 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
5043 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
5044 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
5045 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
5046 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
5047 things.
50487 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
5049 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050507 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005051 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005052- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
5053 where it was started from?
50547 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
5055
5056
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005057Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020050589 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
5059 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005060- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010050618 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
5062 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
5063 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
5064 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
50658 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
5066 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000050677 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
5068 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
5069 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
5070 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000050717 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000050728 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
5073 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050748 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
5075 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
5076 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000050777 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
5078 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
5079 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050808 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
5081 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
5082 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000050838 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
5084 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050858 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050866 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
5087 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000050887 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050897 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02005090 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
5091 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
5092 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050935 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
5094 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
5095 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
50967 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
5097 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
5098 file.
50998 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
5100 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
5101 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005102- Add events to autocommands:
5103 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02005104 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00005105 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
5106 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005107 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005108 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005109 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
5110 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
5111 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
5112 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005113 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005114 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
5115 the char.
5116 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
5117 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
5118 file from CVS).
5119 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
5120 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
5121 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
5122 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
5123 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
5124 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005125 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
5126 changes.
5127 WinResized - After a window has been resized
5128 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005129- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005130 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005131 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005132 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
5133 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
5134 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
5135 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
5136 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
5137
5138
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005139Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005140- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5141 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005142- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5143 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5144 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5145 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5146 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005147- Ideas from others:
5148 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5149 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5150 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5151 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5152 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5153 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5154 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5155 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5156 Uses Perl for C++.
5157 Uses ctags to find the info:
5158 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5159 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5160 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5161 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5162 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5163 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005164 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005165 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5166- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5167
5168
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005169Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005170- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000051717 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5172 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000051737 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5174 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5175 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051768 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5177 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
51789 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5179 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5180 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051818 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5182 - ignore/match case
5183 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051848 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5185 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5186 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5187 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5188 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5189 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051908 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000051917 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5192 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051938 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5194 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5195 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5196 Should work for C++ and Java.
5197 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
51987 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
51997 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5200 instead of words.
52018 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
52028 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5203 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
52048 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5205 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005206- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5207 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005208- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5209 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5210 wildcards in the file name)?
5211- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5212- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5213- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5214 be in another file).
5215- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5216- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5217- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5218 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5219- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5220- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5221- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005222- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5223
5224
5225Command line editing:
52267 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5227 line.
52288 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5229 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5230 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5231- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5232 lines wraps to start of line).
5233- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5234 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5235 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5236 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5237 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5238 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5239 cmdwin does now already.
5240 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5241 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5242 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5243 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5244 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5245 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5246 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5247 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5248 Problems:
5249 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5250 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5251 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5252 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5253 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5254 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5255 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5256 character in first column?
5257 - Implementation ideas:
5258 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5259 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5260 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5261 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5262 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5263 Mode.
5264
5265
5266Command line completion:
52678 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
52688 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5269 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
52708 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5271 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052728 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5273 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052747 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5275 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005276- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5277- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5278 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052798 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5280 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
52817 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5282 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5283- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5284 identifiers (Webb).
52858 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5286 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
52877 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5288 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5289- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5290 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5291- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5292 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5293 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005294
5295
5296Command line history:
5297- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5298 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5299 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005300 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005301- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5302 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5303
5304
5305Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000053069 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5307 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5308 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053098 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5310 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5311 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5312 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5313 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053148 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5315 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5316 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053177 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5318 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005319- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053207 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5321 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5322- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5323 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5324 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5325 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5326 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5327 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5328- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5329 Normal mode.
5330- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5331 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5332 are used.
5333- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5334- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5335- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5336
5337
5338'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010053399 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5340 char * veryLongName =
5341 "very long string"
5342 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053438 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053448 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5345 long_type foo =
5346 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053478 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5348 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005349 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053508 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5351 func(
5352 new String[] {
5353 "asdf",
5354 "asdf"
5355 }
5356 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010053578 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5358 (Chow Loong Jin)
5359 namespace {
5360 int
5361 func(int arg) {
5362 }
5363 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053646 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5365 func( arg1
5366 , arg2
5367 , arg3
5368 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000053697 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005370 func(
5371 int x) // indent like "(4"
5372 {
5373 if (a
5374 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053759 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5376 if (a)
5377 {
5378 if (b)
5379 {
5380 // {
5381 }
5382 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005383 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5384 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5385 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005386- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005387 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
53887 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5389- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5390 line).
5391- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5392- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5393 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005394- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5395 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5396- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5397 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5398- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5399- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5400 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
54018 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5402 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5403 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5404- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5405- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5406 lines start with "\item".
5407- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5408 /* here is a comment that
5409 is just autoindented, and
5410 nothing else */
5411- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
54127 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5413 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5414 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005415 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005416
5417
5418Java:
54198 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5420 Odendahl?
54218 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5422 "[i" commands and friends.
5423- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5424 (Jason)
5425- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5426 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5427
5428
5429'comments':
54308 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5431 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5432 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5433 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005434 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5435 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054367 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5437 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
54387 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
54396 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5440 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5441 regexp is used.
54428 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5443 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5444
5445
5446Virtual edit:
54478 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054487 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5449
5450
5451Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054528 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054538 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000054548 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005455 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000054568 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5457 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005458 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5459 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000054608 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054618 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5462 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054638 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5464 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5465 the end of the line or before a ".".
54667 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5467 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
54687 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5469 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054706 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
54715 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5472 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5473 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5474 cursor is on.
5475
5476
5477Select mode:
54788 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5479 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
54807 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005481 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054827 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5483 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5484 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5485 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5486 normal_cmd().
5487 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5488 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5489
5490
5491Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020054928 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5493 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005494- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5495 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5496 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005497- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5498 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5499 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055008 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005501 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005502 where needed.
55037 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5504 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
55057 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5506 of each selected line.
55078 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
55088 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5509 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5510 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
55118 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5512 Ben Godfrey)
55137 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5514 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
55157 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5516 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055177 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005518 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005519 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
55208 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5521 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
55227 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5523 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5524 option!
55257 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5526 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5527 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5528 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5529 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5530 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5531 without changing the column.
55326 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055337 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5534 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055356 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5536 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
55376 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055386 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005539 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005540 or other special character.
55416 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5542
5543
5544More advanced repeating commands:
5545- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005546- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005547- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005548 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5549 "y." will repeat last yank.
5550 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5551 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5552 and/or pick an older command.
5553- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5554
5555
5556Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055578 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5558 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5559 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
55608 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
55617 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5562 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055638 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5564 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
55658 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000055667 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055678 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5568 entering search strings.
55698 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5570 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5571 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055728 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5573 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055747 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055757 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5576 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055776 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5578 abbreviations are to be used.
5579- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5580 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5581 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005582- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5583 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5584 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5585 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5586 Or implicit:
5587 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005588- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5589 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5590 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005591- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5592 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5593- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5594 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
55956 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5596 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5597 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5598 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005599- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5600 non-replace Insert mode?
5601- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005602- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5603- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5604 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5605- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005606 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005607- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5608 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5609- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5610- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5611 ":freekeys".
5612- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5613
5614
5615Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005616- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5617 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5618- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5619 folds when going to another line.
5620 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5621- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5622 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005623- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5624 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5625 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005626- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5627 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5628 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5629 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020056309 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5631 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005632
5633
5634Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056359 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000056368 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005637 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005638 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005639 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005640 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010056419 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5642 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010056438 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5644 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000056458 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5646 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5647 Perl does it this way:
5648 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5649 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5650 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5651 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056528 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5653 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5654 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000056557 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5656 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000056578 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5658 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000056597 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005660 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5661 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5662 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000056637 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005664 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056657 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5666 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056678 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5668 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
56698 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5670 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020056717 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005672 example.
56738 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5674 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5675- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5676 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5677 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5678 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056798 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5680 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5681 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
56827 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5683 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000056847 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5685 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056868 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5687 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056888 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5689 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056908 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5691 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5692 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5693 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005694- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5695 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005696- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5697 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5698- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5699 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5700 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5701 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057028 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5703 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005704- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5705 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057068 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5707 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5708 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005709- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5710 i ignore case
5711 I use case
5712 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5713 v use Vi regexp syntax
5714 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5715 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5716 Perl uses these too:
5717 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5718 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5719 o compile only once (Perl only)
5720 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5721 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5722 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5723 following command.
5724 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5725- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5726 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5727 for search string)?
57287 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5729 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5730- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5731 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5732- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5733 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5734- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5735- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005736 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005737 a for the next file in the argument list
5738 f for file in the buffer list
5739 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005740 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5741 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005742 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5743 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5744- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057457 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005746 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057477 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5748 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5749 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5750 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
57516 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5752 effects.
57537 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5754 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5755 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000057567 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005757 Also ":dselect".
5758
5759
5760Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010057619 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5762 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5763 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057649 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5765 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020057668 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5767 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000057688 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5769 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5770 timestamp?
5771 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5772 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005773- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5774 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005775- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5776 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5777 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
57788 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5779 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5780 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5781 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
57828 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5783 only remember the lines that really changed.
57847 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5785 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5786 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5787 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005788- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5789 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5790- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5791 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5792- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5793 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5794 [-99].
5795- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5796- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005797- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5798 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5799
5800
5801Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058027 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5803 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5804 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5805 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
58068 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5807 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
58088 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5809 inode too.
58107 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005811 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5812 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058137 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5814 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5815- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5816 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5817- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5818 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
58197 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5820 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
58217 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5822 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
58238 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058247 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5825 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010058268 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5827 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5828 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005829
5830
5831Swap (.swp) files:
58328 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5833 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5834 there are short file name problems.
58358 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5836 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
58378 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
58388 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005839 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005840 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5841 file the same as the actual file?
5842 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058437 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5844 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
58457 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005846 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005847 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5848 enough room.
58497 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5850 or /var/preserve.
5851- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5852 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5853- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005854 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005855- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5856 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5857 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5858 cached list of which line is where.
5859
5860
5861Viminfo:
58627 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5863 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5864 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000058658 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5866 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5867 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058688 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5869 name. (Schild)
58708 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
58718 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058728 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058738 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5874 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5875 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5876 this?
58777 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
58787 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5879 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
58806 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5881 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5882 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5883- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5884 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5885
5886
5887Modelines:
58888 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5889 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5890 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005891- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5892 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5893 'shiftwidth'.
5894- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5895 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005896- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5897 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5898 modeline setting.
5899- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5900 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5901- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5902 .cpp files.
5903- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5904 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5905- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5906 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5907
5908
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005909Sessions:
59108 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5911 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
59127 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5913 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059148 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5915 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059168 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5917 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5918 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000059197 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5920 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000059217 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005922
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005923
5924Options:
59257 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5926 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059278 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5928 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5929 also be supported.
59308 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5931 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5932 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
59337 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005934
5935
5936External commands:
59378 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5938 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
59394 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5940 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5941 -f).
59424 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
59434 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5944 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
59454 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5946
5947
5948Multiple Windows:
59497 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
59508 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5951 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
59527 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5953 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5954 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000059557 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5956 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000059577 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5958 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059596 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5960 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005961 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005962 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
59637 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5964 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5965 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5966 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5967- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5968 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5969 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5970 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5971
5972
5973Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000059748 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059758 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5976 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059778 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 +000059788 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5979 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
59808 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5981 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5982 the mark was set.
59837 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5984 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5985 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5986 ":browse marks"?
59876 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059887 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5989 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
59907 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5991 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
59927 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5993 command).
59947 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5995 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5996 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5997 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
59985 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5999 mappings.
60006 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
6001 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
6002 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
6003
6004
6005Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020060067 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02006007 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006008- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
6009 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000060108 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060117 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
6012 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
6013
6014
6015Writing files:
6016- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
6017 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
6018 shortname conversion.
60198 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
60208 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
6021 file.
60228 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
6023 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
6024 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060256 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
6026 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
60276 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
6028 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
60296 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
6030 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000060318 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006032 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
60337 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
6034 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
60357 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
6036 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
6037 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
6038 waiting for a character to be typed).
60398 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
6040 line of the window, like "[time]".
6041 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
6042 Automatic and/or with a command.
6043
6044
6045Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000060468 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
6047 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000060488 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006049 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
6050- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
6051- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
60528 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
6053 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006054- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006055 :s///N substitutes N times.
6056- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
6057 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
6058 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
60597 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
6060 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
6061 last line column 5.
60625 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
6063 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
6064 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
6065 (Stanislav Sitar)
6066
6067
6068Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060698 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
60707 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
60718 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
6072 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
6073 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006074- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
6075- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
6076 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
6077- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
6078- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
6079
6080
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006081Argument list:
60826 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
6083 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
6084 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
60856 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
6086
6087
6088Registers:
60898 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060908 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
6091 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
6092 for every line.
60936 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
6094 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
6095 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
6096- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
6097 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
6098- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
6099 leader when line wraps?
6100- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
6101 line in the range.
6102- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
6103 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
61048 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
6105 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00006106
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006107
6108Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061098 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000061108 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061117 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
61127 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
6113
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006114Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000061157 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
6116 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
6117 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
6118 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
6119 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
6120 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
6121 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00006122 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000061237 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
6124 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000061257 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
6126 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061278 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
6128 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000061297 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
6130 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
6131 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00006132- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00006133 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010061347 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
6135 window as a buffer-tab selection.
61368 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061377 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
6138 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
61398 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
6140 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061416 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061428 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6143 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6144 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6145 in this Vim.
61468 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006147 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061488 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6149 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6150 have it apply to the following command.
61518 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6152 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6153 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6154 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061557 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6156 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061577 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6158 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6159 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6160 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061616 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
61628 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
61639 Support ACLs on more systems.
61647 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6165 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061667 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6167 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6168 (truncated to fit in the space).
61697 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
61708 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
61718 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6172 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000061737 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006174 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
61757 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6176 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061777 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061787 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
61797 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061808 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
61818 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6182 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6183 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6184 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
61858 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061868 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061878 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6188 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6189 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6190 does something like this. (Shah)
61917 Use growarray for replace stack.
61927 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6193 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
61943 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061957 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6196 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010061977 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6198 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006199- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6200- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6201- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6202- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
62037 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6204 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6205- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6206 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006207- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006208- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6209 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6210- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6211 call "play newbeep.au").
6212- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6213 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6214 (Bhatt).
6215- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6216 blockwise registers).
6217- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6218 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6219- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6220 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6221 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6222 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006223- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062247 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6225 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6226- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6227 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6228 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6229 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6230 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000062318 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6232 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062338 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6234 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6235 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6236 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6237 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6238- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006239- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062407 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6241 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6242- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6243 not in column 1.
62446 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6245 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
62467 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6247- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006248- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006249 :redir #> bufname
6250 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006251- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6252 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006253- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6254 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6255 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
62566 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6257 console? (Klaus Hast)
6258- Add :delcr command:
6259 *:delcr*
6260 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6261 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6262 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6263 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6264 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006265 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006266- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6267- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6268 characters from 'isprint'.
6269- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6270- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6271 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6272- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6273 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6274 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6275- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6276- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6277 Nvi).
6278- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6279 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
62807 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6281- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6282 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
62836 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6284- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6285 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6286 macro).
6287- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006288- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6289 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6290- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
62918 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006292- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6293- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6294- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6295 if it is not the first or last window.
6296- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6297 there is one) instead of the file itself.
62987 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6299 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6300 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6301- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6302- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006303 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006304 many percent down the windows).
6305- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6306 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6307 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006308 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006309- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6310 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6311- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6312 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6313- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6314- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6315- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6316 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063178 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6318 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6319 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6320 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6321 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006322- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6323 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6324- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006325 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6326- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006327 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6328 (Webb).
6329- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006330 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006331- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6332 hex codes like 0xff).
6333- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6334 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6335 the last TYPED command.
6336- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6337- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6338- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6339 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006340- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063418 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6342 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6343 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006344- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006345 trailing '.'.
6346- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6347 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6348 find_file_in_path().
6349- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6350 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6351- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6352- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6353 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6354- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006355 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006356- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6357 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6358 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006359- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6360- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6361- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6362 to the minimal size.
6363- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6364- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6365- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6366- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6367- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006368- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6369 entered)?
6370- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6371 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006372- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006373- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6374- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6375- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6376- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6377- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6378 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006379- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063808 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6381 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6382 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6383 or in octal.
63847 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6385 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006386- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006387 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6388- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6389- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6390 insert line command).
6391- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6392- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6393- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6394- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6395- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6396 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006397- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006398 yet.
6399- Implement 'redraw' option.
6400- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6401 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000064027 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6403 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006404 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6405 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000064068 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6407 do it.
6408- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6409- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6410 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6411- Add text justification option.
6412- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6413- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6414 off".
6415- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6416- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6417- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006418 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006419- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006420- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006421- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6422 commands.
6423- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6424- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6425- :table command (Webb)
6426- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006427- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6428- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6429- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6430- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6431- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6432 (Demirel).
6433- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6434- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6435 for use in macro's and the like.
6436- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006437 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006438- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006439 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006440- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006441 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006442 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6443- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6444 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006445- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006446 mkopttab to make option table?
6447- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6448 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6449- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6450 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006451- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006452 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6453- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6454 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006455- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000064568 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6457 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6458 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6459 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6460 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000064618 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6462 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6463 (Netherton)
64646 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6465 space after "(", for example.
64665 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6467 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6468 (Servatius Brandt)
6469
6470
6471From Elvis:
6472- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6473- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006474- Search patterns:
6475 \@ match word under cursor.
6476 but do:
6477 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6478 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
64798 ":window" command:
6480 :win + next window (up)
6481 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6482 :win - previous window (down)
6483 :win -- idem, wrapping
6484 :win nr to window number "nr"
6485 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
64867 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6487 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6488
6489
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006490From xvi:
6491- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6492- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6493
6494
6495From vile:
6496- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6497- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6498 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6499
6500
6501Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006502- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6503 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006504 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006505 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6506 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006507- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6508 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6509- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6510 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6511 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6512 current layout mirrored.
6513- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6514- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6515 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6516- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6517- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6518 font in each top-level window.
6519- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6520- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6521- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6522- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6523 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006524- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6525 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6526- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6527 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
65284 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6529 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6530 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6531 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006532 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006533 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6534 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6535- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6536 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6537 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6538
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006539vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006540vim: set fo+=n :