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Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2011 Mar 22
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
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|.
29
30 *known-bugs*
31-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
32
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010033The :z command doesn't work exactly as it should. (ChangZhuo Chen, 2011 Mar 2)
Bram Moolenaarcab49df2011-03-22 17:40:10 +010034Compare with how old Vi works and with posix spec. terminal is 80 x 24,
35'scroll' option set to 11.
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +020036
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010037Crash with ":python help(dir)". (Kearn Holliday, 2011 Mar 19)
38I can reproduce it. Don't know why it happens.
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010039
Bram Moolenaarcab49df2011-03-22 17:40:10 +010040'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
41'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
42Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010043
44When opening file from windows explorer, characters inside [] cause
45problems, even though double quotes are used. (Manuel Stol, 2011 Mar 9)
46
47Patch for Vim indent file. (Cocular, 2011 Mar)
48
49:help c_Esc should work, but only :help c_<Esc> does.
50
51Patch to change the meaning of \n in substitute(). (motoya kurotsu, 2011 Mar 8)
52
53New version of Pascal indent file. (Neil Carter, 2011 Mar 9)
54
55Help file foldexpr (ZyX)
56
57upstart syntax file (James Hunt, Mar 11 2011)
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +010058
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +020059Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
60only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
6121, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
62
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010063Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
64
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +010065Crash with big .xpm file. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010066Patch from Ben Schmidt (2011 Mar 3). Needs some more work.
67
68Patch for disappearing cursor after netbeans command. (Xavier de Gaye, 2011
69Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +010070
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +020071Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
72
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010073Compiler scripts for fortran (Hong Xu, 2011 March 19)
74
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +020075This line hangs Vim, because of syntax HL:
76call append(line, "INFO ....12....18....24....30....36....42....48....54....60....66....72....78%$")
77
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +020078Building the MingW version without clipboard but with multi-byte doesn't
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +020079work. (Bill Lam, 2010 Sep 18)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +020080
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010081Patch for handling of NL in substitute() with \= expression. (Motoya Kurotsu,
822011 Mar 16)
83
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +010084When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
85(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
86
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +020087Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
88
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +020089Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
90":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
9115)
92
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010093Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
94
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010095On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
9664 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
97right type.
98
99Patch to improve mf_hash, dynamic sizing. (Ivan Krasilnikov, 2010 Dec 17)
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100100Update with tests: 2011 Feb 28.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100101
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200102string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +0200103(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200104
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100105maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
106mapping, how to restore the script ID?
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200107
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100108Patch to fix \%V item in regexp. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100109Update Nov 19. James Vega: still not right. Christian: it's difficult.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200110
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100111Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
112Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
113
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100114Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
115(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
116
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100117Improvement patch for filetype.vim. (Thilo Six, 2011 Mar 19)
118
119Patch for "+ and "* getting same selection when "a" is not in 'guioptions'.
120(James Vega, 2011 Mar 17)
121
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200122Highlighting stops working after changing it many times. Script to reproduce
123it: Pablo Contreras, 2010 Oct 12 Windows XP and 7. Font is never freed?
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200124
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100125After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
126Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
127
128Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
129
130"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
131
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100132Deleting a linewise selection that includes the last line of the file leaves
133an empty line. (Ben Schmidt, 2011 Mar 17)
134Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Mar 19.
135
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100136Two patches for xxd. (Florian Zumbiehl, 2011 Jan 11)
137Two updates for second one Jan 12.
138
139Problem with "syn sync gouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
140
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100141Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
1422010 Dec 18)
143
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100144When 'colorcolumn' is set locally to a window, ":new" opens a window with the
145same highlighting but 'colorcolumn' is empty. (Tyru, 2010 Nov 15)
146Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Feb 13 (but move further down).
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100147
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100148In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
149or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
150sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
151
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100152Patch for configure related to Ruby on Mac OS X. (Bjorn Winckler, 2011 Jan 14)
153
154Patch to recognize more files as log files. (Mathieu Parent, 2011 Jan 14)
155
156Patch to set v:register on startup. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 16)
157
158Patch to set v:register default depending on "unnamed" in 'clipboard'. (Ingo
159Karkat, 2011 Jan 16)
160
161Patch for:
162 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
163 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
164 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
165 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
166(Jakson A. Aquino, 2011 Jan 29)
167
168Patch for "No errors" showing up after QuickfixCmdPost. (Mike Lundy, 2011 Feb
1693)
170
171Patch for cmdline completion of ":lang". (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Feb 5)
172
Bram Moolenaar463ee342010-08-08 18:17:52 +0200173GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
174doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
175
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200176GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
177
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100178Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
179Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
180
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100181Patch for adding 's' option to 'cino', C++ namespace indenting. (Konstantin
182Lepa, 2011 Jan 18)
183
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100184Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
185
1867.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
187there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
188do?
189
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100190":find" completion does not escape space in directory name. (Isz, 2010 Nov 2)
191
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100192Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
19322)
194
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100195Patch to support ":!start /b cmd". (Xaizek, 2010 Dec 22)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100196
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100197Patch to build with GTK on Mac. (Ben Schmidt, 2011 Jan 18)
198Use another name instead of FEAT_GUI_ELSEWHERE.
199
200Patch for xxd makefile to avoid generating .dSYM files. (Ben Schmidt, 2011 Jan
20118)
202
203Patch to show sign for folded text. (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jan 12)
204Method to reproduce it: Jan 16.
205
206Patch to improve optwin.vim. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 29)
207
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100208Patch for Python 3 support. (lilydjwg, 2011 Feb 24)
209
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100210New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
211- move compflags to separate growarray?
212- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*", '+'. What would be
213 the maximum repeat for * and +?
214
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100215"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
2162011 Feb 27)
217
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200218Copy/paste between Vim and Google chrome doesn't work well for multi-byte
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200219characters. (Ben Haskell, 2010 Sep 17)
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200220When putting text in the cut buffer (when exiting) and conversion doesn't work
221properly, Prepend "ENC==={value of 'enc'}:" to the text and don't convert?
222Then it should at least work from Vim to Vim and in other applications it's
223clear why it doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200224
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200225Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
226^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
227
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100228When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
229exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
2309) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
231
232g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
233the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
234
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100235Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
236crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
237
238Patch to disallow fork() when __APPLE__ is defined. (Hisashi T Fujinaka, 2010
239Nov 25)
240
241GTK: Patch to fix menu popping down. (Hong Xu, 2010 Dec 4, Dec 5)
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100242Update 2011 Feb 3.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100243
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100244Patch to use pipes on Win32. (Vincent Berthoux, 2011 Feb 28)
245Update Mar 1 using 'shelltemp'.
246
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100247Python: Adding line to buffer other than the current one doesn't work
248correctly. (Rozbujnik, 2010 Dec 19)
249
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200250Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
251names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
252Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
253the system encoding (usually utf-8).
254
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200255Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
256Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
257
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100258Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
25930)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100260
261Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200262
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200263setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200264
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002657 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
266 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
267 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
268
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200269getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
270element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
271Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Check that new argument is optional
272and that it's documented.
273
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200274With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
2752010 Oct 24)
276
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100277Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
278Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
279
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200280Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
281
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200282When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
283Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
284
Bram Moolenaardc685ab2010-08-13 21:16:49 +0200285Test 73 fails on MS-Windows when compiled with DJGPP and run twice. How to
286delete the Xfind directory? Add an rmdir() function, just like we have
287mkdir().
288
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200289":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
290
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200291'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
292
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100293When 'paste' is changed with 'pastetoggle', the ruler doesn't reflect this
294right away. (Samuel Ferencik, 2010 Dec 7)
295
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200296Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
297(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
298
299Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
300
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100301Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
302gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
303
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200304":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
305accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
306
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200307Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
308setwinvar().
309
Bram Moolenaar9de99972010-08-09 22:33:06 +0200310Echo starts in the wrong column:
311 while 1 | let s = input('A') | echo 'R' | endw
312(Boyko Bantchev, 2010 Aug 9)
313
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100314Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
315
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100316When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
317(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
318
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200319Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
320(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30)
321
Bram Moolenaar06583f12010-08-07 20:30:49 +0200322Patch to make more characters work in dialogs. (Yankwei Jia, 2010 Aug 4)
323
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100324Patch for VisVim, pass file name to VimOpenFile. (Jiri Sedlak, 2010 Nov 12)
325
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200326When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
327instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
328
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100329Crash in setqflist(). (Benoit Mortgat, 2010 Nov 18)
330
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100331Patch to handle resizing when tab is opened, when at full size. (Yukihiro
332Nakadaira, 2010 Jan 6)
333
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100334Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
335back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
336
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100337Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
338one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
339Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 17. Needs test.
340
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100341Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
342makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
343.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
344 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
345
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100346Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200347Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
348
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100349CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
350the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
351FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
352
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200353Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
354Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
355
3568 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
357 after typing something.
358Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
359function that resets did_cursorhold.
Bram Moolenaar555cdc22010-01-12 21:31:21 +0100360
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200361Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
362Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
363
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100364I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
365Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
366an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100367
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200368Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
369
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100370Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
371non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100372
373iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
374Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
375or replace with a character and continue?
376
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100377Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
378Requires configure check for localtime().
379Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
380
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100381Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
382Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
383path.
384
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200385":sort n" treats empty line as higher than zero. (Beeyawned, 2010 Oct 13)
386
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100387Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
388Dominique can't reproduc it.
389
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200390":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
391like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
392
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100393Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200394Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
395
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100396Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
3972010 Nov 5)
398
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100399Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
400Jan 7)
401
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200402When setting 'undofile' while the file is already loaded, but unchanged, try
403to read the undo file. Requires computing a checksum of the text. (Andy
404Wokula)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100405
406Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
407Only with "vim -u NONE".
408
409Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
410
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100411With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
412entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
413Feb 12)
414
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200415Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
416characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
417
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100418Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
419
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200420Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert
421mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg)
422Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100423
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100424Patch for static code analysis errors in riscOS. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Dec 3)
425
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100426Patch for better #if 0 syntax highlighting for C code. (Ben Schmidt, 2011 Jan
42720)
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100428
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100429Change to C syntax folding to make it work much faster, but a bit less
430reliable. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Nov 9) Enable with an option?
431Most time is spent in in_id_list().
432
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200433Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce
434it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274.
435(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27)
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100436Generally, folding with 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to
437find out why.
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200438
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200439When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
440Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
441
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100442Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file. Works OK for
443echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar 17)
444
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100445In command line window ":close" doesn't work properly. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
446Jun 1)
447
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200448Cannot use getchar() inside :normal and using an expression mapping. Is this
449supposed to work? (XyX, 2010 Sep 22)
450
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100451When using an expression mapping with a multi-byte character each byte is
452converted to a utf-8 character. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 4)
453Patch for possible solution. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 5)
454
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100455When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
456not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
457string value.
458
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200459There is no command line completion for ":lmap".
460
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200461":e ~br<Tab>" does not complete to ":e /home/bram/". Would need to use
462getpwent() to find all the matches.
463
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100464Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
465
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100466For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
467line argument -noregister.
468
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100469When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
470missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
471
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200472When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
473doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100474
475Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
476(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
477Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
478There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
479Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
480
481":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
482highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
483to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
484
485Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
486Probably needs a bit of work.
487
488List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
489Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
490
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200491Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
492
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100493Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
494
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200495Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
496Sep 1)
497
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +0200498Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
499on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
500
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100501Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
5022009 Jul 18)
503
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100504Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
505Added test, updates, June 23.
506
507Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
508window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
509Needs more work.
510
511Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
512
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100513When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
514few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
515
516'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
517(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
518
519Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
520J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
521
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200522When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
523for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
524
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200525Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
526
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200527Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
528
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100529When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
530
531":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
532because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
533ex_docmd.c.
534
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200535Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100536Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
537
538string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
539for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
540
541Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
542
543'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
54420)
545
546Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
547And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
54823)
549
550Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
5512009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
552
553Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
554
555Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
556SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
557
558When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
559cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
560
561When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
562indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
563(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
564
565Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
566are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
567Ignore window options when not in the right window?
568Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
569that doesn't have a window.
570
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100571When "b" is a symlink to directory "a", resolve("b/") doesn't result in "a/".
572(ZyX, 2011 Feb 12)
573
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100574When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
575doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
576
577getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
578displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
579
580":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
581
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100582There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
583was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
584perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
585
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +0200586Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
587
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200588Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
589file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
590system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
591
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100592Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
593work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
594Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
595
596Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
597
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100598Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
599command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
600
601Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
602
603Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
604does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
605
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200606opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
607height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +0200608very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200609
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100610Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
611(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
612
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100613Session file generates error upon loading, cause bu --remote-silent-tab.
614(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
615
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100616Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
617char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
618
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100619A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (Zyx, 2010 Dec 25)
620
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100621Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
622messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
623es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
6242009 Jan 26)
625
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100626When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100627in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
628Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
629
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100630Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
631a modeline.
632
633Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
634Sergey Khorev)
635
636Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
637part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000638
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000639netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
640number to be below last visible line.
641
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100642After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
643correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
644
645Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
646(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
647
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100648shellescape() depends on 'shellshash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
649'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
650Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
651unix-like shell?
652
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100653Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
654that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
655
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200656Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
657register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
658(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
659
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100660Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
661Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
662
663Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
664make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
665
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100666When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
667still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
668
669"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
670(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
671
672Update src/testdir/main.aap.
673
674"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
675
676Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
677that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
678ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
679Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
680
681Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
682
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000683Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
684
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100685MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
686doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
687probably causes this.
688
689'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02006902009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100691
692Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
693 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
694 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
695(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
696
697Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
698":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
699option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
700is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000701
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100702":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
703first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000704
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000705Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
706laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
707Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000708
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100709Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
710anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
711
712On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
713doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
714Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
715Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
716
717":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
718
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000719When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
720'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
721fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
722the buffer to be unmodified.
723Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
724another look at it.
725
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100726Patch for c.vim and cpp.vim syntax files. (Chung-chieh Shan, 2008 Nov 26)
727
728c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
729(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
730
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100731You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
732error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
733Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
734at the other match for 0xBF.
735
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000736Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000737
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100738When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
739argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
740
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000741Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
742backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
743
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200744Win32: bold font doesn't work when 'guifontwide' has been set. (Yue Wu, 2010
745Aug 23)
746
747When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
748line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
749
750Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
751position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
752
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000753After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
754(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000755command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000756
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000757":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
758Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
759
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100760Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
761Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
762
763When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
764either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
765put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
766
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000767Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
768Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
769Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
770Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
771(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
772
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100773Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
774
775ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000776
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000777Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
778(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
779escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
780an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000781This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
782July 7)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000783
784The str2special() function doesn't handle multi-byte characters properly.
785Patch from Vladimir Vichniakov, 2007 Apr 24.
786Should clean up the whole function. Also allow modifiers like <S-Char-32>?
787find_special_key() also has this problem.
788
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000789Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
7902008 May 14)
791
792Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
793Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
794'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
795
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100796Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
797Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
798
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000799Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
800Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
801
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100802Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
803
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000804The utf class table is missing some entries:
805 0x2212, minus sign
806 0x2217, star
807 0x2500, bar
808 0x26ab, circle
809
810Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
811line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
812
813GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
814Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
815
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100816Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
817try the Cocoa version.
818
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000819Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
820changed or the window is resized.
821
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100822GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
823the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
824
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000825Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
826Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000827
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000828Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
8291) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
830
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000831C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
832with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
833Try to reproduce at work.
834
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100835Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
836Is there a way to list all the files first?
837
838When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
839result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
84016)
841
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200842Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
843Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
844
845Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
846(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
847
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000848Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
849Await response to question to make the register writable.
850
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100851src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
852remark why.
853
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000854Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
8551)
856
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100857In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
858each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
859
860try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
861
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100862try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
863
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100864Recognize and ignore BOM in error file. (Aleksey Baibarin)
865
866":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
867Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
868
869":tab drop filename" doesn't work nicely when "filename" is open in a window
870in another tab. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Feb 13)
871
872Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
873
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000874Including NFA regexp code:
875Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
876Useful in tests.
877Performance tests:
878- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
879- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
880- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100881- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000882- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
883 'hlsearch'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000884
885Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
886Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
887
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000888Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
889Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
890Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000891
892C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
893(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
894
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100895Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
896":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200897Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100898
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000899When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
900and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
901
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000902Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
903 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
904
905New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
906
907'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
908Likonen, March 19)
909
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100910Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
911other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
912
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000913The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
914appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
915matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
916
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100917When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
918character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
919'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
920(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
921
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000922Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
923Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000924
925More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
926
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200927Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
928http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
929
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000930Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
931back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
932Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000933
934Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
935No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
936
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000937Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
938terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000939
940Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
941
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000942Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
943but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
944that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000945
946When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
947
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100948Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
949Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
950
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000951Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
952popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
953size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
954This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
955
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000956When the popup menu is close to the edge of the window it is truncated. Patch
957to anchor the popup menu in a different way. (James Vega, 2008 Jul 30)
958
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000959Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
960a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
961isn't right?
962
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100963When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
964it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
965
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000966Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
967then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
968files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000969Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
970indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
971":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
972in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
973quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
974Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000975
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000976When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
977parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
978neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
979particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
980Jun 3)
981However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
982the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000983
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100984Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
985Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
986
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000987Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
988switch list is noticed:
989 switch (i)
990 {
991 case 1:
992 foobar:
993 }
994
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000995Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
996
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000997Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
998with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
999go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1000moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1001
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001002Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010010038 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1004 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1005 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001006
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001007Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
10082007 Feb 8)
1009
1010Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
1011 Sutcliffe says it works well.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001012 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001013 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
1014
1015Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1016set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001017
1018Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1019
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001020Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1021
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001022Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1023Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1024New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1025patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1026
1027Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1028Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1029
1030Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
1031Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
1032Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
1033
1034Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1035
1036Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
10372007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001038Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001039
1040Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001041label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1042
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001043Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1044with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1045Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001046
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001047Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1048pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
1049
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001050Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1051
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001052Win32: When 'shell' is cmd.exe this command fails:
1053 echo system('"c:/path/echo.exe" "foo bar"')
1054Should we set the default for 'shellxquote' to a double quote, when 'shell'
1055contains "cmd" in the tail? (Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Oct 13)
1056Also set 'shellcmdflag' to include /s.
1057
1058Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001059Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001060Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
1061
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001062Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1063Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1064only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1065
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001066Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
1067Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
1068
1069Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1070Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
1071Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
1072properly?
1073
1074Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
10752007 Jun 21)
1076
1077When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1078Jun 18)
1079
1080If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1081
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001082Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1083windows. (Adam George)
1084
1085When using input() in a loop and then ":echo" the display column isn't right.
1086(Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Aug 28) Patch by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Sep 2.
1087
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001088F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1089modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1090K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001091
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001092UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1093to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1094
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001095In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1096the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1097
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001098C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1099
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001100":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1101
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001102When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001103error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001104
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001105Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1106use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1107
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001108Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1109if_ruby.c.
1110
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001111":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1112
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001113Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
1114Needs more work.
1115
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001116Python3 interface doesn't handle utf-8 correctly? (Nov 2010, lilydjwg)
1117
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001118The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1119it in keep_msg?
1120
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001121Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001122error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001123name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1124
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001125Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1126longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001127
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001128Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1129Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1130Also for ":w" without a file name.
1131The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001132
1133"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1134Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1135
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001136VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1137directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1138(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1139
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001140VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1141
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001142input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1143name?
1144
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001145Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1146
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001147When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1148(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1149Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1150will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1151
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001152gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1153This also fails with --remote.
1154
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001155When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
11562008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1157all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1158
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001159":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
1160Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
1161
1162aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1163
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001164When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1165(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1166
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001167Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1168the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1169
1170Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001171Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1172Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1173argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001174(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001175
1176GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1177
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001178Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1179superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1180
1181Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1182character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1183
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001184Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1185Jun 5)
1186
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001187Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
11882008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1189Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1190
1191In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1192but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1193Jul 22)
1194
1195There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1196
1197Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1198":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1199somehow? Or use a new function.
1200
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001201Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1202
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001203Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
1204that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001205
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001206Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1207moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1208that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1209
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001210The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1211
1212Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1213loading all files.
1214
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001215Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
1216line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
1217after starting up?
1218
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001219When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001220cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1221the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1222
1223Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1224has been created.
1225
1226Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1227shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1228fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1229background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1230A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001231
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001232These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1233 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1234 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1235 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1236
1237Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1238partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1239
1240In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1241buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1242reload it then?
1243
1244New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1245previous version.
1246
1247For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1248
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001249Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1250only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1251
1252Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1253tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1254doesn't contain other directories.
1255
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001256Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1257 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1258 set background=dark
1259This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1260color is, not reset it.
1261
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001262Linux distributions:
1263- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1264 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1265 xfree-xterm".
1266- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1267
1268Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1269start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1270show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1271middle?
1272
1273When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001274(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001275connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1276dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1277
1278Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1279
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001280When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1281current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1282the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1283
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001284When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1285Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1286
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001287Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1288 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1289 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1290 - getting colors in xterm
1291 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1292
1293Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1294Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1295
1296Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1297
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001298A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1299Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1300
1301Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1302Dara, 2006 June 21)
1303
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001304Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1305number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1306
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001307After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1308the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1309
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001310Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
1311Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
1312about this.
1313
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001314Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1315copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1316error and stop using the connection to the server.
1317
1318Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1319Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1320
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001321Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010013222008 Sep 29)
1323
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001324In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1325check the result of has("patch13").
1326
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001327Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1328restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1329
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001330Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1331and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1332
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001333Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1334put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1335
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001336Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1337resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1338
1339In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1340can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1341
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001342GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1343maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1344doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001345Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1346visible.
1347
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001348When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1349differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001350
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001351The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1352be only one.
1353
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001354"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1355script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1356
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001357It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1358the function name before resolving it to a number?
1359 let d = {}
1360 fun! d.foo()
1361 echo "here"
1362 endfun
1363 call d.foo(9)
1364
1365Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1366only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001367Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1368used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1369
1370Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1371output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1372Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1373
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001374Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001375"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1376name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1377Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001378
1379Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1380(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1381
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001382Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1383as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1384
1385Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1386Jan 1)
1387
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001388Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
138923)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001390
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001391":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1392tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1393Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001394
1395xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1396buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1397Xterm 224 supports it!
1398
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001399When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1400text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1401latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1402
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001403Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1404
1405Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1406no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1407
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001408In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1409VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
14102007 Oct 16)
1411
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001412When entering a C /* comment, after typing <Enter> for 70 times the indent
1413disappears. (Vincent Beffara, 2008 Jul 3)
1414
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001415TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1416Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1417
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001418Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001419
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001420When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1421typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1422Sep 3, 11)
1423
1424When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1425respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1426the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1427what happens for the GUI.
1428
1429X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1430pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1431clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1432Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1433Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1434clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1435
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001436":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1437this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1438
1439When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1440Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1441restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1442
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001443Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
14442010 Jun 30)
1445
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001446
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001447At next release:
1448- Rename src/Makefile and create a new one like toplevel Makefile that
1449 creates auto/config.mk when it's not there? (Ben Schmidt, 2011 Feb 11)
1450
1451
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001452More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001453- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1454 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001455- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1456- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1457 21)
1458- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1459 patch May 10)
1460- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1461 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1462- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1463 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1464- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1465- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1466- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1467 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1468 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001469- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001470- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1471 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1472- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1473 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1474- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1475 21)
1476- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1477 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1478- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1479 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001480- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1481 Sep 13)
1482- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1483 Docs patch Oct 30)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001484- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1485 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1486 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1487 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1488 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar4d32c2d2010-07-18 22:10:01 +02001489- Patch to access screen under Python. (Marko Mahni, 2010 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001490- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001491
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001492Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000014939 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1494 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1495 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1496 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1497 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1498 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1499 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1500 (Alan Schmitt)
1501 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001502 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1503 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000015049 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001505 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000015068 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015078 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001508 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015097 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1510 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1511 How does this work? Missing comments.
1512- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001513 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001514 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015158 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001516 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015177 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1518 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1519- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1520 for multi-byte characters.
1521- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1522- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1523 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1524 been given values.
1525 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
15268 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001527 with an ESC sequence.
1528 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1529 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1530 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015317 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1532 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1533- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1534 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1535 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
15368 Add functions:
1537 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1538 Update 2004 Sep 10
1539 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1540 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001541 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001542 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001543 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1544 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001545 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1546 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1547 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1548 (2003 May 13)
1549 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1550 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001551 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1552 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001553 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1554 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1555 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015567 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1557 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1558- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1559 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
15607 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1561 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000015628 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1563 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015647 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
15658 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1566 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
15677 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1568 Kotchan has a patch for it)
15698 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1570 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1571 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
15727 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1573- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1574 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1575 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001576- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1577 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1578- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1579
1580
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001581Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001582- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1583 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015848 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1585 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1586 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1587 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1588 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1589 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015908 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1591 make Vim exit.
15927 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1593 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1594 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
15958 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1596 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1597 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
15986 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1599 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1600 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
16018 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1602 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1603 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1604 names in one buffer???
1605 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1606 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1607 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
16087 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1609 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1610 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001611 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1612 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016137 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1614 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
16157 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
16167 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
16177 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1618 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
16197 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1620 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1621 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1622 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
16237 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
16247 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
16257 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1626 to the match with the tag? Option?
16277 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
16287 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1629 (Sayre).
16307 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1631 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016327 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1633 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1634 match. Nvi can do it too.
16357 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1636 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1637 line 1\ line 2\\
1638 line 2\ line 3\\
1639 . line4/
16406 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1641 the way the shell is started?
16426 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1643 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1644
1645
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001646GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016479 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016488 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1649 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1650 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000016518 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1652 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1653 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016549 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1655 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1656 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1657 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001658- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1659 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1660 blocked for now.
1661
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001662
1663Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001664- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1665 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000016668 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1667 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016688 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1669 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +020016708 Win32: With two monitors, gvim partly on both, and adding/removing a
1671 scrollbar Vim resizes and moves to one of the monitors. (Chris Monkiewicz,
1672 2008 Oct)
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +000016738 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and
1674 Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor.
1675 Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001676 When the primary monitor is on the right, coordinates on the left monitor
1677 are negative. Clamping to zero means gvim jups to the primary monitor.
1678 (Michael Wookey, 2010 Aug 17)
1679 Probably the same issue: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim
1680 jumps from the secondary to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9)
1681 Possible solution using GetSystemMetrics() (Sergey Khorev, 2010 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016828 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1683 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1684 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
16858 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1686 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
16877 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1688 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1689 "lucida_console:h8").
16906 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1691 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000016928 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1693 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1694 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016957 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1696 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1697 to use an opaque background in most places?
16988 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1699 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1700 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
17018 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1702 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1703 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
17047 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1705 2004 May 9)
17068 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1707 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1708 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1709 MS-Windows 98?
1710 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1711 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1712 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1713 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017148 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1715 appear. (Sami Salonen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017168 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1717 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1718 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1719 doesn't work properly.
17208 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1721 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1722 appears in the right position. (Webb)
17239 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1724 button doesn't give popup menu.
1725 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1726 selection.
1727 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1728 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1729 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
17308 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1731 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1732 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1733 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
17348 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1735 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1736 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017377 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1738 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1739 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
17407 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1741 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001742 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017437 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1744 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017456 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
17468 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1747 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1748 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
17498 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1750 know which keyboard is being used?
17517 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1752 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1753 area (Koloseike).
17548 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1755 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1756 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1757 the font name).
1758
1759
1760Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000017616 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1762 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1763 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1764 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1765 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017669 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1767 required and it's missing?
17688 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1769 wrong.
17709 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1771 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000017729 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001773 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1774 flag.
17758 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1776 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1777 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
17788 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
17796 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1780 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1781 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1782 the tooltips work though...
17837 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1784 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
17858 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1786 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1787 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1788
1789
1790Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010017919 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
1792 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017939 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1794 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1795 through files.
17967 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1797 read long file names. (Schroeder)
17984 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1799 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1800 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1801 problem during a refresh.
18025 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1803 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1804 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1805 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1806 colors as it should.
1807 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1808 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1809
1810
1811Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02001812- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018137 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1814 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018158 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1816 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1817 (Phillipps)
1818
1819
1820GUI:
18219 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1822 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
18239 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00001824 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001825 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
18269 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1827 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
18288 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1829 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
18308 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1831 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1832 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
18338 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1834 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1835 of where it is processing the output.
1836 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
18378 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1838 doesn't work.
18398 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000018408 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1841 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1842 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018438 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018448 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1845 browse().
18468 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1847 use that code? Or use console dialog.
18488 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1849 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000018507 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1851 - regexp on/off
1852 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1853 when all buffers/directory is used:
1854 - filter for file name
1855 when directory is used:
1856 - subdirectory on/off
1857 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018588 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1859 to avoid problems.
18608 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1861 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1862 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
18638 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1864 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1865 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
18668 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1867 up. Set erase character somehow?
18688 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1869 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1870 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1871 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
18728 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
18737 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1874 visible.
18757 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1876 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
18777 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1878 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
18798 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1880 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
18818 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1882 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1883 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1884 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1885- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
18864 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1887 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1888 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1889
1890
1891MSDOS/DJGPP:
18929 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1893 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1894 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
18958 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1896 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
18979 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00001898 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1899 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019009 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1901 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1902 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1903 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
19049 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1905 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1906 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1907 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1908 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1909 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1910 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1911 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1912 key code. Use a translation table?
19139 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1914 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
19158 Use DJGPP 2.03.
19168 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
1917 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
19188 setlocale() is bogus.
19198 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
1920 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
1921 Windows 95 system!
19228 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000019237 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001924 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
19257 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
1926 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
1927 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
19288 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
1929 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
19307 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
1931 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
1932 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
1933 "[New file]".
19347 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
1935 that is supported?
19368 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
19378 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
1938 Briscoe)
1939
1940
1941MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
19428 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
1943 gen_expand_wildcards().
19448 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
1945 Wagner.
19468 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
19478 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
1948 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000019498 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
1950 a good fallback, thus use:
1951 $HOME
1952 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
1953 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
1954 $USERPROFILE
1955 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
1956 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
1957 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
1958 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019598 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
1960 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
19618 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
1962 Should work like in the GUI version.
19638 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
1964 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
19658 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
1966 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
19678 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
1968 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
1969 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019708 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
1971 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
1972 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
1973
1974
1975Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020019768 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001977 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
1978 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
19798 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
1980 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
1981
1982
1983Win32 console:
19849 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
1985 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
1986 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
1987 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
1988 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
1989 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
1990 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
1991 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
1992 and the file is not saved.
1993 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
1994 long name.
19958 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
1996 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
19977 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
1998 besides the console.
19998 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
20009 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2001 <C-S-i>?
20029 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2003 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
20048 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2005 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020067 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2007 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2008 exiting.
2009
2010
2011Amiga:
20128 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2013 sequences.
20149 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2015 backslashes in result.
20168 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2017 all options, using white space separation.
2018
2019
2020Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002021- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020227 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2023 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2024 (Jack)
2025 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000020268 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2027 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020288 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
20298 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
20309 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2031 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020329 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002033
2034
2035"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002036- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2037 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002038- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2039 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002040- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2041 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2042 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2043 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2044 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2045 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2046 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000020479 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2048 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000020499 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002050 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2051 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020528 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2053 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2054 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002055 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020568 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
2057 error number, it's not a regular error message.
20587 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2059 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
20608 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2061 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2062 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020637 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2064 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002065- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2066 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020678 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2068 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2069 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2070 using the horizontal scrollbar.
20717 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2072 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2073 invocations belong together.
20748 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2075 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
20768 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2077 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2078 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2079 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2080 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000020818 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000020828 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2083 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2084 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000020856 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020868 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2087 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
20887 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
2089 use "~/" when possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020907 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2091 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2092 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2093 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
20948 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
2095 defined.
20967 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2097 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2098 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
20997 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2100 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2101 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
21027 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2103 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021047 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2105 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021069 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2107 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2108 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2109 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2110 script can be called.
21118 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2112 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2113 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021148 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2115 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021168 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
2117 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000021188 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002119 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2120 configurable?
21218 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
21229 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2123 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2124 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021258 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2126 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021278 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2128 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021298 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2130 always written, even when the original file already exists.
21317 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
2132 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
21339 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2134 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2135 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021367 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021378 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2138 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2139 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000021408 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2141 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002142 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2143 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021448 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2145 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
21469 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2147 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2148 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002149 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021507 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2151 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021527 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2153 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2154 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2155 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021568 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002157 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2158 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2159 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2160 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002161 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2162 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002163 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002164 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002165 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2166 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2167 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2168 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2169 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
21708 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2171 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
21729 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2173 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2174 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021758 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2176 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
21778 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2178 in lines that don't extend into the block?
21798 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2180 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2181 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
21828 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2183 'linebreak'.
21848 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2185 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2186 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021879 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2188 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2189 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2190 'magic' in history. (Margo)
21919 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2192 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
21939 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2194 isn't updated).
21959 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
21969 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2197 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2198 cause another redraw, etc.
21998 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2200 must escape special characters in the pattern.
22018 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2202 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2203 ":w!!" for that.
2204 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2205 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002206 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022077 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2208 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2209 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2210 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2211 clipboard)
22127 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2213 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2214 Waggoner)
22158 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2216 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2217 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000022186 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2219 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2220 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022218 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2222 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
22238 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2224 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2225 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000022268 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022278 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2228 (e.g., ":w").
22298 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2230 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
22318 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2232 for ">>".
22338 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2234 script in do_cmdline().
22358 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2236 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2237 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2238 changes.
22398 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2240 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
22418 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2242 check for file marks. This can be slow.
22437 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2244 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2245 needed.
2246 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
22478 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2248 to skip catch_signals()?
22499 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2250 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2251 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2252 text?
22538 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2254 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
22558 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2256 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
22579 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2258 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2259 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2260 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2261 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
22627 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2263 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2264 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2265 in the list?
22668 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2267 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2268 instead of on button down.
22698 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
22709 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2271 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002272 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2273 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022748 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2275 character is typed.
22768 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2277 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
22788 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2279 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
22808 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2281 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2282 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2283 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2284 cygwin bash.
22857 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2286 Remember flags for backreferences.
22877 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2288 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
22897 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2290 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
22918 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2292 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
22937 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2294 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022957 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2296 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2297 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
22987 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2299 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
23008 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2301 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2302 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
23037 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2304 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002305
2306
2307I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
23089 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2309 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2310 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002311
2312
2313Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002314- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2315 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2316 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002317- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2318 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2319 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2320 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2321 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2322 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002323 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002324- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2325 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002326 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002327 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2328 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2329 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002330- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2331 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2332 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2333 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2334 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2335- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2336 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2337 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2338- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2339 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002340- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002341- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2342 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2343 character gets the highlighting.
2344- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2345 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2346- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2347 (Jennings)
2348- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2349- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2350 errors. How do we get the rest?
2351- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002352- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002353 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2354- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2355 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2356 first?
2357- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2358 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2359- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2360 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2361 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2362- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2363 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2364 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2365 (Benzinger).
2366- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2367 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2368 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2369- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2370 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2371- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2372 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2373- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2374 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2375 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2376 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2377 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2378 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2379- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2380 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2381 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002382- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2383 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2384 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002385- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2386 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2387 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2388- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2389 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2390- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2391 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2392- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2393 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2394- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2395 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2396- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2397 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2398 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2399 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2400 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2401- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2402 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2403 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2404- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2405 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2406 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002407- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2408 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 +00002409- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2410 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2411 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2412 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2413 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2414- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2415 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2416
2417--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2418 *extensions-improvements*
2419
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002420Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2421- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2422 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2423 calling a function.
2424 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2425 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002426- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2427 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2428- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2429 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2430 http://clewn.sf.net.
2431 And the idevim plugin/script.
2432 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2433 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2434 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2435 other window.
2436 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2437 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2438 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2439 in terminal mode.
2440- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2441 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2442 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2443 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2444 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2445 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002446 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002447- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2448 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2449 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002450- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2451 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002452- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2453 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2454 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024558 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2456 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2457 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2458 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002459- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2460 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002461
2462
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002463Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000024648 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2465 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000024668 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2467 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000024688 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2469 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024708 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024717 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
24729 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2473 - change to cursor position and curswant
2474 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2475 - how it works for folded lines
2476 - how it works with multi-byte characters
24779 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2478 work too.
24798 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2480 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2481 text.
24828 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
24837 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2484 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
24857 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2486 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002487 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002488- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2489
2490
2491Help:
2492- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2493 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2494- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2495 to the other matches.
2496- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2497- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2498- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2499 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2500 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2501 default contents.
2502- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2503 height for the help window (and other windows).
2504- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2505- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2506- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2507
2508
2509User Friendlier:
25108 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2511 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2512 Briscoe)
25138 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
25148 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2515 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2516 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
25178 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2518 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2519- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2520 ":mkplugin <file>"?
25218 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2522 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2523 'runtimepath'.
2524 " Vim plugin
2525 <main plugin code>
2526 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2527 <plugin docs>
2528- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
25299 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2530 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2531 item?).
2532 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025338 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
25347 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000025357 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2536 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2537 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000025388 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2539 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2540 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2541 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002542
2543
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002544Tab pages:
25459 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025467 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2547 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000025488 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000025498 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000025508 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
25518 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
25527 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000025537 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002554 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000025557 Add local variables for each tab page?
25568 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2557 tab pages.
25587 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025597 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2560 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002561
2562
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002563Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002564- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2565 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2566 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2567 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002568- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2569 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2570- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2571 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2572 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2573- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2574 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002575- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2576 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2577 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002578- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2579 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2580 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002581- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2582 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002583- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002584 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2585 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000025868 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2587 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
25888 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2589 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
25908 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2591 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002592 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002593 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2594 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2595 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2596 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002597- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2598 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002599- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002600- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2601 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002602- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002603 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002604- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002605 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002606- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2607 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002608- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2609 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2610- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002611 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002612 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2613 in the affix file separately.
2614 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002615 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002616 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2617 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2618 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2619- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2620 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2621 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2622 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2623 Alternative:
2624 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2625 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2626 affix which is required.
2627- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002628 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002629- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2630 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2631 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002632- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2633 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002634- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2635 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2636- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000026378 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2638 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2639 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2640 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002641- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2642 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2643 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2644 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000026458 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2646 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000026478 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
26488 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2649 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000026507 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
26518 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2652 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2653 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2654 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002655
2656
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002657Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000026589 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2659 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02002660 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026618 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2662 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2663 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002664 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2665 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026667 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2667 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2668 location.
2669
2670
2671Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002672 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2673 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026748 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2675 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000026768 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026779 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2678 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000026797 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026808 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2681 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2682 user aware of this?
26838 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2684 commands skip over a closed fold.
26858 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
26868 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026877 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002688- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2689 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2690 missing line goes unnoticed.
2691 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002692- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2693 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2694 smoother?
2695- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2696 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002697- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2698 file can contain:
2699 args version.c main.c
2700 edit version.c
2701 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002702- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002703- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2704 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002705- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2706 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002707- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2708 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002709- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000027108 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002711 searches.
2712
2713
2714Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002715- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2716 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2717 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2718 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027199 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2720 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2721 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2722 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020027239 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
2724 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
2725 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027268 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2727 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2728 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2729 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2730 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2731 item.
27328 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002733 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2734 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027358 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2736 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002737 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00002738 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027398 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2740 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027418 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2742 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2743 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027447 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2745 so that the user can fix the problem.
27468 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2747 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027489 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
27498 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027508 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
27518 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027527 Searching and composing characters:
2753 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2754 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2755 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2756 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2757 characters can be manipulated.
2758 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2759 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027608 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
27618 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
27628 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2763 characters.
27648 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
27658 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2766 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
27677 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2768 'display' option to specify this.
27697 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2770 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2771- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2772 fontselector somehow.
2773- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2774 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2775- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2776 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2777- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2778 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2779 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2780 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2781 if a font exists?
2782- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +00002783 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002784- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2785 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
27867 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2787 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00002788- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2789 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2790 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2791 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002792- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2793 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2794 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2795- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2796 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2797 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2798 But it's very complicated...
2799
2800
2801Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000028027 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002803- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2804- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2805 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00002806- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2807 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002808- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2809- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2810 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002811- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2812 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002813- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2814 units as for the margins.
2815- Support right-to-left text?
28168 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2817 color.
2818
2819
2820Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028218 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2822 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
28238 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2824 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
28258 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2826 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000028277 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2828 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028298 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2830 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2831 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028327 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2833 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2834 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028358 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
28369 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2837 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028387 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2839 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000028407 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2841 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028428 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2843 change this for each release.
28448 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2845 pattern, but not in the body.
28468 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2847 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2848 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028498 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
28508 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2851 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2852 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2853 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
28548 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2855 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
28568 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2857 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002858 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028598 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
28608 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2861 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2862 used.
28638 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2864 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
28658 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2866 re-insert the [] if possible.
28678 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2868 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000028698 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2870 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2871 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2872 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2873 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028748 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2875 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
28768 Support for deleting syntax items:
2877 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2878 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2879 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
28808 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2881 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2882 a '<'. (Fleiner)
28837 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2884 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2885 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
28867 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2887 detected.
28888 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002889 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028908 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2891 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028928 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
28938 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
28947 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2895 ":mkvimrc".
28968 Improve c.vim:
2897 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2898 "c_strict_ansi".
2899 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
29008 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2901 current line while in Insert mode.
29028 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2903 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
29048 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2905 display position.
29068 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2907 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2908 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
29098 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2910 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2911 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029128 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2913 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2914 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000029157 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2916 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2917 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2918 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2919 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029207 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2921 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2922 E.g. for this html:
2923 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029247 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
29257 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
2926 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029278 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
29288 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029297 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
2930 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
2931 completion?
29328 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
2933 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
29347 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
2935 select one of the sets.
29368 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
2937 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
2938 2, etc.
29398 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
2940 highlighting (for "." command).
29418 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
2942 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
29438 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
29447 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
2945 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
29466 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
2947 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
2948- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
2949 when extending an already existing syntax file.
2950- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002951- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
2952 (for comment blocks).
2953- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
2954 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
2955 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
2956 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
2957 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
2958 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
2959 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
2960 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
2961 (Campbell)
2962 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
2963 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
29647 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
2965 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
29667 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
2967 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
2968 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
29697 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
2970 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
2971 messages. And external commands?
29728 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
2973 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
29747 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
2975 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
2976
2977
2978Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000029798 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
2980 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029817 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
2982 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
2983 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029848 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
2985 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002986- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
2987 2006 Dec 11.
2988- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020029898 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
2990 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
2991 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
2992 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
2993 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
2994 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000029957 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
2996 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029978 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
29988 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
2999 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3000 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3001 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3002 nested packages?
3003 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3004 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3005 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030067 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3007 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3008 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3009 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3010 autocommand.
3011 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3012 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3013 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3014 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030157 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3016 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030176 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3018 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030198 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003020 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3021 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3022 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3023 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3024 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3025 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3026 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003027 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3028 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3029 3 2002
3030 Only add this when also implemented for
3031 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3032 be used.
3033 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003034 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3035 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3036 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3037 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3038 File.Open..." argument.
3039 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3040 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3041 with properties instead.
3042 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3043 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3044 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003045 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003046 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003047 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003048 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003049 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003050 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003051 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3052 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003053 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3054 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003055 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003056 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3057 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003058 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3059 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3060 to allow the library to execute a command or
3061 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030627 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3063 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
30648 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3065 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030668 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3067 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030688 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030697 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3070 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
30716 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000030728 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3073 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030748 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3075 option or environment variable.
30768 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030778 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003078 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000030797 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3080 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030818 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3082 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
30838 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
30848 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3085 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3086 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3087 charwise({expr}).
30887 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3089 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3090 buffer for this?
3091 result = scratch(string, command)
3092 result = apply(string, command)
3093 result = execute(string, command)
3094 "command" would use <> notation.
3095 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
30967 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003097
3098
3099Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000031006 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3101 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3102 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3103 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3104 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3105 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3106 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003107
3108
3109Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031107 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3111 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020031127 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3113 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3114 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3115 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031168 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3117 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3118 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3119 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003120 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031218 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3122 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3123 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031248 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
31259 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
31268 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
31277 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3128 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
31298 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3130 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3131 when starting up in a color terminal.
31328 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3133 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031348 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3135 function be improved?
31368 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3137 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3138 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3139 this be improved?
31408 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3141 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000031427 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3143 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031447 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3145 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
31467 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3147 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020031487 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031497 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3150 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3151 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3152 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3153 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3154 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3155 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
31568 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
3157 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
3158 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
3159 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
31608 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3161 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3162 using strcmp() too often?
31637 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3164 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3165 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3166 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3167 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3168 the two blocks to the memfile block.
31697 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3170 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3171 with an argument that can be messed with.
3172 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3173 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
31747 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3175- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
31768 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3177 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3178- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3179 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3180- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3181- Do profiling on:
3182 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3183 - 1000ii<Esc>
3184 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3185 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3186 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3187 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3188 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3189 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003190 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031917 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3192 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3193 changed).
3194 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3195 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3196- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3197- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3198 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3199- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3200 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3201 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3202- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3203 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3204- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3205- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3206 cursor is right of the screen.
32078 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3208 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3209
3210
3211Code size:
32128 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3213- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3214 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
32158 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
32168 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3217 it.
32187 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3219 left out.
32208 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3221 can be removed.
32228 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3223
3224
3225Messages:
32268 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3227 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
32288 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3229 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
32308 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3231 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003232- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3233 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3234- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032358 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3236 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032379 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3238 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3239 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3240 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3241 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032428 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3243 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
32448 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3245 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3246 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3247 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3248 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3249 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003250- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003251 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032528 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3253 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3254 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3255 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3256 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3257 error messages, printing text, etc.
32588 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3259 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3260 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3261
3262
3263Screen updating:
32647 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3265 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3266 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3267- screen_line():
3268 - insert/delete character stuff.
3269 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3270- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3271 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3272- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3273 waiting for a character.
32748 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3275 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3276 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
32777 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003278
3279
3280Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020032818 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032826 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3283- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3284 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3285 windows.
32867 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3287 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3288 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3289- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3290 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3291 (Goldfarb)
3292- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3293 bound windows.
3294- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3295 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003296- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003297- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3298 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3299 of lines but not with a single line).
3300
3301
3302Autoconf:
33038 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
33048 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3305 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3306- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3307 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3308- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3309- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3310- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3311
3312
3313Perl interface:
33148 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033157 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
33167 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
33176 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3318
3319
3320Shared libraries:
33216 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3322 :libload internal-name libname
3323 :libunload internal-name
3324 :liblist
3325 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3326 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3327 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
33286 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3329
3330
3331Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000033329 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3333 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3334 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3335 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3336 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000033378 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3338 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3339 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003340 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003341 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000033428 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3343 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3344 several).
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003345 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3346 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3347 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000033487 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3349 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3350 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033518 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
33528 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3353 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033547 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3355 window for each tag.
33567 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
33577 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3358 bottom" search message.
33597 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3360 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3361 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003362- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3363- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003364- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3365 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3366 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033677 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3368 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3369 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3370 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
33717 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3372 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3373 :tagargs clear
3374 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3375 matching).
33767 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3377 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3378 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3379 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
33807 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3381 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
33827 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3383 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3384 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003385
3386
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003387Win32 GUI:
33888 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3389 the message and input?
33907 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3391 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3392 dynamically?
33937 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3394 (Mike McCollister)
33958 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3396 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3397 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3398 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3399 common part of the path.
34008 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
34018 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3402 gettext and menus work.
34038 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3404 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003405 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003406 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
34078 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3408 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
34098 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3410 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
34117 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3412 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
34137 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
34147 <Esc> should close a dialog.
34157 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3416 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3417 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3418 prompts.
34197 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3420 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3421 the file added into an already running Vim.
34227 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3423 functions to find the window title.
3424
3425
3426GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034278 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
3428- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3429 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
34307 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
34318 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
34326 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
34338 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3434 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
34359 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
34367 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
34378 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3438 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
34398 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3440 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3441 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
34428 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3443 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
34448 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3445 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3446 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3447 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034487 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
34498 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3450 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000034517 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3452 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3453 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034548 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
34558 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003456 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034578 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
34588 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
34598 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3460 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3461 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
34627 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3463 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3464 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
34657 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3466 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
34677 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3468 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3469 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3470 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
34717 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3472 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
34737 Should support multi-column menus.
3474- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3475 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3476- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
34778 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
34786 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3479 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
34807 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
34817 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3482 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3483 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
34847 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
34858 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3486 name can be chosen free.
34877 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3488 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
34896 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3490 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3491 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3492 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3493 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3494 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3495 things.
34967 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3497 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034987 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003499 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003500- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3501 where it was started from?
35027 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3503
3504
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003505Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003506- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010035078 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3508 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3509 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3510 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
35118 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3512 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000035137 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3514 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3515 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3516 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000035177 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035188 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3519 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035208 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3521 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3522 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035237 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3524 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3525 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035268 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3527 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3528 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035297 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3530 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035318 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3532 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035338 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035346 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3535 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035367 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035377 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
3538 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
3539 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
3540 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
35415 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3542 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3543 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
35447 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3545 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3546 file.
35478 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3548 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3549 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003550- Add events to autocommands:
3551 Error - When an error happens
3552 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003553 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003554 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3555 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003556 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003557 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003558 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3559 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003560 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003561 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003562 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003563 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3564 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3565 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3566 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003567 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003568 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3569 the char.
3570 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3571 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3572 file from CVS).
3573 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3574 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3575 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3576 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3577 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3578 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003579 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3580 changes.
3581 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3582 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003583- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003584 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003585 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003586 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3587 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3588 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3589 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3590 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3591
3592
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003593Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003594- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3595 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003596- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3597 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3598 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3599 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3600 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003601- Ideas from others:
3602 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3603 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3604 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3605 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3606 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3607 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3608 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3609 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3610 Uses Perl for C++.
3611 Uses ctags to find the info:
3612 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3613 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3614 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3615 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3616 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3617 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003618 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003619 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3620- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3621
3622
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003623Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003624- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000036257 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3626 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000036277 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3628 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3629 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036308 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3631 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
36329 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3633 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3634 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036358 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3636 - ignore/match case
3637 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036388 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3639 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3640 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3641 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3642 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3643 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036448 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000036457 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3646 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036478 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3648 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3649 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3650 Should work for C++ and Java.
3651 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
36527 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
36537 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3654 instead of words.
36558 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
36568 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3657 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
36588 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3659 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003660- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3661 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003662- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3663 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3664 wildcards in the file name)?
3665- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3666- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3667- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3668 be in another file).
3669- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3670- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3671- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3672 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3673- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3674- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3675- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003676- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3677
3678
3679Command line editing:
36807 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3681 line.
36828 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3683 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3684 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3685- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3686 lines wraps to start of line).
3687- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3688 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3689 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3690 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3691 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3692 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3693 cmdwin does now already.
3694 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3695 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3696 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3697 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3698 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3699 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3700 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3701 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3702 Problems:
3703 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3704 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3705 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3706 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3707 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3708 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3709 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3710 character in first column?
3711 - Implementation ideas:
3712 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3713 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3714 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3715 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3716 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3717 Mode.
3718
3719
3720Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037218 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037228 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
37238 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3724 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
37258 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3726 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037278 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3728 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037297 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3730 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003731- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3732- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3733 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037348 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3735 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
37367 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3737 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3738- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3739 identifiers (Webb).
37408 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3741 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
37427 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3743 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3744- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3745 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3746- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3747 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3748 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003749
3750
3751Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000037529 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3753 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3754 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003755- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3756 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3757 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3758 completely resulted from one mapping.
3759- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3760 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3761
3762
3763Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000037649 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3765 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3766 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037678 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3768 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3769 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3770 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3771 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037728 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3773 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3774 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037757 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3776 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003777- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037787 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3779 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3780- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3781 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3782 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3783 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3784 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3785 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3786- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3787 Normal mode.
3788- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3789 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3790 are used.
3791- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3792- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3793- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3794
3795
3796'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037979 ") :" confuses continuation line: (Colin Bennett, 2007 Dec 14)
3798 cout << "a"
3799 << ") :"
3800 << "y";
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038019 "} else" causes following lines to be indented too much. (Rouben
3802 Rostamian, 2008 Aug 30)
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010038039 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
3804 char * veryLongName =
3805 "very long string"
3806 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038078 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038088 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3809 long_type foo =
3810 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038118 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3812 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003813 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038148 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3815 func(
3816 new String[] {
3817 "asdf",
3818 "asdf"
3819 }
3820 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038218 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3822 (Chow Loong Jin)
3823 namespace {
3824 int
3825 func(int arg) {
3826 }
3827 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038286 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3829 func( arg1
3830 , arg2
3831 , arg3
3832 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000038337 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003834 func(
3835 int x) // indent like "(4"
3836 {
3837 if (a
3838 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038399 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3840 if (a)
3841 {
3842 if (b)
3843 {
3844 // {
3845 }
3846 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003847 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3848 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3849 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003850- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003851 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
38527 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3853- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3854 line).
3855- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3856- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3857 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
38587 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3859- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3860 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3861- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3862 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3863- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3864- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3865 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
38668 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3867 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3868 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3869- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3870- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3871 lines start with "\item".
3872- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3873 /* here is a comment that
3874 is just autoindented, and
3875 nothing else */
3876- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
38777 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3878 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3879 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003880 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3881 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003882
3883
3884Java:
38858 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3886 Odendahl?
38878 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3888 "[i" commands and friends.
3889- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3890 (Jason)
3891- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3892 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3893
3894
3895'comments':
38968 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3897 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3898 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3899 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003900 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3901 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039027 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3903 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
39047 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
39056 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3906 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3907 regexp is used.
39088 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3909 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3910
3911
3912Virtual edit:
39138 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039147 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3915
3916
3917Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039188 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039198 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000039208 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00003921 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039228 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3923 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003924 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3925 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039268 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039277 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
3928 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039298 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
3930 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039318 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
3932 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
3933 the end of the line or before a ".".
39347 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
3935 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
39367 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
3937 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039386 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
39395 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
3940 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
3941 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
3942 cursor is on.
3943
3944
3945Select mode:
39468 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
3947 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
39487 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
3949 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
39507 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
3951 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
3952 contains 'C' or 'A'.
3953 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
3954 normal_cmd().
3955 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
3956 - Typing text replaces the selection.
3957
3958
3959Visual mode:
3960- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
3961 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
3962 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003963- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
3964 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
3965 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039668 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003967 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003968 where needed.
39697 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
3970 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
39717 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
3972 of each selected line.
39738 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
39748 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
3975 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
3976 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
39778 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
3978 Ben Godfrey)
39797 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
3980 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
39817 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
3982 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
39837 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
3984 Young is working on this)
39857 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00003986 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003987 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
39888 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
3989 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
39907 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
3991 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
3992 option!
39937 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
3994 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
3995 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
3996 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
3997 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
3998 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
3999 without changing the column.
40006 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040017 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4002 current buffer.
40037 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
40046 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4005 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
40066 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040076 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004008 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004009 or other special character.
40106 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4011
4012
4013More advanced repeating commands:
4014- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000040157 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004016 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004017- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004018- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004019 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4020 "y." will repeat last yank.
4021 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4022 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4023 and/or pick an older command.
4024- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4025
4026
4027Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040288 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4029 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4030 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
40318 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
40327 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4033 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040348 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4035 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
40368 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000040377 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040388 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4039 entering search strings.
40408 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4041 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4042 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040438 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4044 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040458 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4046 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4047 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
40487 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040497 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4050 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040516 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4052 abbreviations are to be used.
4053- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4054 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4055 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004056- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4057 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4058 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4059 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4060 Or implicit:
4061 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004062- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4063 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4064 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004065- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4066 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4067- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4068 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
40696 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4070 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4071 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4072 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004073- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4074 non-replace Insert mode?
4075- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004076- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4077- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4078 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4079- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004080 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004081- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4082 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4083- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4084- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4085 ":freekeys".
4086- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4087
4088
4089Incsearch:
4090- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4091- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4092 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4093 up every time.
4094- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4095 folds when going to another line.
4096- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4097 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4098 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4099 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4100- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4101 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4102
4103
4104Searching:
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000041058 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004106 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004107 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004108 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004109 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041109 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4111 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010041128 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4113 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000041148 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4115 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4116 Perl does it this way:
4117 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4118 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4119 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4120 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041218 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4122 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4123 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041248 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4125 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4126 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000041277 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4128 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000041298 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4130 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000041317 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004132 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4133 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4134 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
41357 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4136 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000041377 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004138 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041397 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4140 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041418 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4142 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
41438 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4144 line.
41457 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4146 example.
41478 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4148 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4149- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4150 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4151 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4152 Alternative: use matchit.vim
41538 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
41548 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4155 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4156 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
41577 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4158 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000041597 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4160 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041618 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4162 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041638 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4164 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041658 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4166 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4167 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4168 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004169- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4170 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004171- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4172 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4173- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4174 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4175 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4176 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041778 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4178 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004179- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4180 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041818 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4182 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4183 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004184- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4185 i ignore case
4186 I use case
4187 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4188 v use Vi regexp syntax
4189 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4190 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4191 Perl uses these too:
4192 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4193 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4194 o compile only once (Perl only)
4195 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4196 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4197 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4198 following command.
4199 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4200- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4201 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4202 for search string)?
42037 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4204 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4205- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4206 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4207- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4208 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4209- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4210- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004211 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004212 a for the next file in the argument list
4213 f for file in the buffer list
4214 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004215 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4216 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004217 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4218 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4219- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042207 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004221 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042227 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4223 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4224 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4225 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
42266 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4227 effects.
42287 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4229 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4230 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000042317 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004232 Also ":dselect".
4233
4234
4235Undo:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042369 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4237 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020042388 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4239 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4240 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
42418 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4242 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042438 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4244 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4245 timestamp?
4246 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4247 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042488 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4249 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4250 was changed outside of Vim.
4251 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4252 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004253 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4254 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004255- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4256 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004257- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4258 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4259 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
42608 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4261 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4262 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4263 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
42648 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4265 only remember the lines that really changed.
42667 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4267 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4268 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4269 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004270- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4271 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4272- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4273 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4274- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4275 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4276 [-99].
4277- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4278- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004279- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4280 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4281
4282
4283Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042847 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4285 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4286 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4287 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
42888 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4289 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
42908 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4291 inode too.
42927 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004293 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4294 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042957 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4296 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4297- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4298 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4299- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4300 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
43017 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4302 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
43037 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4304 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
43058 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000043068 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004307 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
43087 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4309 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010043108 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4311 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4312 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004313
4314
4315Swap (.swp) files:
43168 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4317 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4318 there are short file name problems.
43198 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4320 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
43218 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
43228 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004323 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004324 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4325 file the same as the actual file?
4326 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043277 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4328 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
43297 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004330 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004331 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4332 enough room.
43337 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4334 or /var/preserve.
4335- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4336 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4337- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4338 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4339- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4340 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4341 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4342 cached list of which line is where.
4343
4344
4345Viminfo:
43467 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4347 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4348 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000043498 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4350 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4351 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043528 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4353 name. (Schild)
43548 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
43558 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043568 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043578 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4358 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4359 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4360 this?
43617 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
43627 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4363 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
43646 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4365 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4366 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4367- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4368 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4369
4370
4371Modelines:
43728 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4373 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4374 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004375- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4376 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4377 'shiftwidth'.
4378- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4379 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004380- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4381 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4382 modeline setting.
4383- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4384 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4385- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4386 .cpp files.
4387- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4388 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4389- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4390 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4391
4392
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004393Sessions:
43948 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4395 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
43967 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4397 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043988 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4399 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044008 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4401 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4402 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000044037 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4404 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000044057 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004406
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004407
4408Options:
44097 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4410 restore it after the command has executed.
44117 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
4412 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
4413 side effect.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044148 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4415 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4416 also be supported.
44178 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4418 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4419 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
44207 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
44217 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4422 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004423
4424
4425External commands:
44268 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4427 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
44284 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4429 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4430 -f).
44314 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
44324 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4433 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
44344 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4435
4436
4437Multiple Windows:
44387 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
44398 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4440 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
44417 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4442 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4443 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044447 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4445 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000044467 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4447 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044486 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4449 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004450 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004451 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
44527 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4453 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4454 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4455 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4456- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4457 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4458 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4459 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4460
4461
4462Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044638 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044648 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4465 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000044668 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 +000044678 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4468 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
44698 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4470 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4471 the mark was set.
44727 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4473 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4474 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4475 ":browse marks"?
44766 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044777 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4478 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
44797 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4480 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
44817 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4482 command).
44837 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4484 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4485 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4486 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
44875 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4488 mappings.
44896 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4490 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4491 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4492
4493
4494Digraphs:
44957 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
4496 Also the keymap?
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01004497 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'filenecoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004498- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
4499 below/above).
4500- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4501 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000045028 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045037 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4504 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4505
4506
4507Writing files:
4508- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4509 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4510 shortname conversion.
45118 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
45128 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4513 file.
45148 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4515 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4516 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045176 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4518 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
45196 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4520 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
45216 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4522 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045238 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004524 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
45257 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4526 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
45277 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4528 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4529 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4530 waiting for a character to be typed).
45318 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4532 line of the window, like "[time]".
4533 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4534 Automatic and/or with a command.
4535
4536
4537Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000045388 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4539 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045408 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004541 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4542- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4543- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
45448 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4545 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004546- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004547 :s///N substitutes N times.
4548- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4549 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4550 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
45517 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4552 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4553 last line column 5.
45545 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4555 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4556 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4557 (Stanislav Sitar)
4558
4559
4560Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045618 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
45627 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
45638 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4564 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4565 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004566- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4567- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4568 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4569- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4570- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4571
4572
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004573Argument list:
45746 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4575 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4576 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
45776 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4578
4579
4580Registers:
45818 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
45828 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4583 around in windows.
45848 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4585 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4586 for every line.
45876 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4588 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4589 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4590- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4591 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4592- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4593 leader when line wraps?
4594- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4595 line in the range.
4596- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4597 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
45988 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4599 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004600
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004601
4602Debug mode:
46037 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
46048 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000046058 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046067 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004607 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4608 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4609 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046107 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
46117 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4612
4613
4614Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010046159 Python: be able to define a Python function that can be called directly
4616 from Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046178 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
4618 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046197 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4620 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4621 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4622 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4623 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4624 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4625 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004626 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000046277 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4628 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000046297 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4630 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046318 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4632 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046337 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4634 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4635 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010046369 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
4637 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004638- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004639 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046407 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4641 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046427 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4643 window as a buffer-tab selection.
46448 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046456 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
46467 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4647 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4648 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004649 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4650 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046517 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4652 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
46538 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4654 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046556 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046568 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4657 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4658 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4659 in this Vim.
46608 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004661 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046628 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4663 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4664 have it apply to the following command.
46658 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4666 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4667 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4668 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046697 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4670 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046717 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4672 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4673 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4674 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046756 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
46768 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
46779 Support ACLs on more systems.
46787 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4679 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046807 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4681 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4682 (truncated to fit in the space).
46837 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
46848 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
46858 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4686 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000046877 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004688 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
46897 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4690 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046917 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046927 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
46937 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046948 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
46958 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4696 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4697 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4698 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
46998 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
47006 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4701 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004702 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047038 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047048 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4705 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4706 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4707 does something like this. (Shah)
47087 Use growarray for replace stack.
47097 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4710 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
47113 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047127 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4713 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010047147 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
4715 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004716- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4717- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4718- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4719- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
47207 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4721 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4722- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4723 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02004724- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004725- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4726 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4727- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4728 call "play newbeep.au").
4729- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4730 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4731 (Bhatt).
4732- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4733 blockwise registers).
4734- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4735 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4736- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4737 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4738 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4739 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004740- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047417 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4742 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4743- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4744 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4745 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4746 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4747 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047488 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4749 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047508 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4751 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4752 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4753 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4754 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4755- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004756- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047577 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4758 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4759- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4760 not in column 1.
47616 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4762 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
47637 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4764- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004765- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004766 :redir #> bufname
4767 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00004768- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4769 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004770- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4771 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4772 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
47736 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4774 console? (Klaus Hast)
4775- Add :delcr command:
4776 *:delcr*
4777 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4778 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4779 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4780 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4781 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4782 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4783- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4784- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4785 characters from 'isprint'.
4786- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4787- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4788 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4789- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4790 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4791 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4792- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4793- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4794 Nvi).
4795- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4796 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
47977 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4798- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4799 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
48006 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4801- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4802 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4803 macro).
4804- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004805- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4806 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4807- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
48088 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004809- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4810- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4811- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4812 if it is not the first or last window.
4813- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4814 there is one) instead of the file itself.
48157 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4816 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4817 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4818- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4819- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004820 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004821 many percent down the windows).
4822- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4823 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4824 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4825- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4826 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4827- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4828 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4829- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4830- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4831- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4832 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048338 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4834 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4835 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4836 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4837 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004838- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4839 t_bs is set? (Webb)
4840- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004841 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4842- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004843 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4844 (Webb).
4845- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004846 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004847- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4848 hex codes like 0xff).
4849- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4850 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4851 the last TYPED command.
4852- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4853- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4854- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4855 should also work?
4856- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
48578 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4858 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4859 name.
4860- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4861 trailing '.'.
4862- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4863 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4864 find_file_in_path().
4865- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4866 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4867- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4868- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4869 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4870- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004871 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004872- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4873 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4874 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004875- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004876 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4877- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4878- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4879- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4880 to the minimal size.
4881- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4882- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4883- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4884- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4885- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004886- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4887 entered)?
4888- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4889 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004890- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004891- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4892- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4893- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4894- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4895- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4896 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004897- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048988 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4899 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4900 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4901 or in octal.
49027 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4903 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004904- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004905 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4906- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4907- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4908 insert line command).
4909- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4910- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4911- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4912- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4913- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4914 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004915- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004916 yet.
4917- Implement 'redraw' option.
4918- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4919 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049207 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4921 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00004922 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4923 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049248 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4925 do it.
4926- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4927- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4928 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4929- Add text justification option.
4930- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4931- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4932 off".
4933- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4934- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4935- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004936 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004937- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004938- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004939- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
4940- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
4941 commands.
4942- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
4943- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
4944- :table command (Webb)
4945- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004946- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
4947- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
4948- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
4949- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
4950- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
4951 (Demirel).
4952- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
4953- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
4954 for use in macro's and the like.
4955- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004956 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004957- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004958 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004959- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004960 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004961 a window to become smaller (Webb).
4962- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
4963 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004964- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004965 mkopttab to make option table?
4966- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
4967 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
4968- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
4969 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004970- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004971 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
4972- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
4973 cursor?
4974- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
4975- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
49765 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
4977 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000049788 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
4979 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
4980 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
4981 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
4982 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049838 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
4984 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
4985 (Netherton)
49866 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
4987 space after "(", for example.
49885 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
4989 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
4990 (Servatius Brandt)
4991
4992
4993From Elvis:
4994- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
4995- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004996- Search patterns:
4997 \@ match word under cursor.
4998 but do:
4999 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5000 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
50018 ":window" command:
5002 :win + next window (up)
5003 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5004 :win - previous window (down)
5005 :win -- idem, wrapping
5006 :win nr to window number "nr"
5007 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
50087 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5009 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5010
5011
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005012From xvi:
5013- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5014- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5015
5016
5017From vile:
5018- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5019- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5020 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5021
5022
5023Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005024- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5025 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5026 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5027 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5028 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005029- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5030 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5031- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5032 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5033 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5034 current layout mirrored.
5035- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5036- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5037 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5038- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5039- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5040 font in each top-level window.
5041- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5042- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5043- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5044- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5045 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5046- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5047 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5048 mentioned in the tags file.
5049 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5050 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5051- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5052 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5053- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5054 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
50554 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5056 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5057 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5058 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005059 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005060 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5061 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5062- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5063 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5064 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5065
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005066When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5067empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005068
5069vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5070vim: set fo+=n :