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Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 Mar 01
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010041Vim9 script:
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +010042- better implementation for partial and tests.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010043- "func" inside "vim9script" doesn't work? (Ben Jackson, #5670)
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010044- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010045- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
46- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
47- make "let var: string" work in a vim9script.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010048- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010049- Support type for ":let"/":const" at script level for Vim9 script.
50 (Ben Jackson, #5671)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010051- :func inside vim9script must still use a:arg
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010052- Make "++nr" work.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010053- Check that import in legacy script works and puts item in s:
54- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
55- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
56- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
57- Test the
58- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
59 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
60- call autoload function.
61- Type checking arguments when calling :def function
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010062- Implement more expressions, e.g. [a:b]
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010063- can use func as reference:
64 def SomeFunc() ...
65 map(list, SomeFunc)
66- define function and create funcref in one step:
67 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
68 Also extends lambda
69- Test: Function declared inside a :def function is local, disappears at the
70 end of the function. Unless g: is used, just like with variables.
71- Can we omit \ for line continuation inside (), {}, ?
72 Requires parsing while reading a function. Like fgetline in do_one_cmd()?
73- implement :type
74- implement class
75- implement interface
76- predefined class: Promise<T>
77- import statement for type declaration?
78- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
79 EVAL expr
80 LOADVARARG (varags idx)
81
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020082Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010083- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +020084- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +010085- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
86 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
87- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020088- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020089 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010090- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
91 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020092- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +010093 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +010094- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020095
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +020096Text properties:
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010097- prop_find() may not find text property at start of the line. (#5663)
98- Get E685 with a sequence of commands. (#5674)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010099- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
100 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100101- Text properties spanning more than one line. #5683
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100102- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200103
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100104'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200105- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
106 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100107- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
108 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200109- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200110- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200111- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
112 isn't one?
113 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
114
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200115Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100116- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200117- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100118- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200119
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200120Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200121- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100122- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
123 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200124- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100125- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200126- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
127 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
128 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100129- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100130- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
131 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100132 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100133 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200134
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200135Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100136- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
137 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
138 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100139- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100140- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
141 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200142- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
143 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200144- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200145- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200146- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
147 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200148- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
149 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
150- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
151 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200152- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
153 is disabled.
154- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
155- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
156 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200157- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
158 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
159 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
160- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
161- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
162 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
163- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
164 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200165
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200166Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100167E451, E452, E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
168E654, E856, E857, E860, E861, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200169
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100170Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
171Causes flicker on resizing.
Bram Moolenaar2ed639a2019-12-09 23:11:18 +0100172
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100173Patch to use more FOR_ALL_ macros and use them. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #5339)
174
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100175Patch to explain use of "%" in :!. (David Briscoe, #5591)
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100176
177Patch to add "-d" to xxd. (#5616)
178
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100179Patch to add Turkish manual. (Emir Sarı, #5641)
180
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200181Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
182manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
183Athena is OK.
184Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
185
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200186Patch to properly break CJK lines: Anton Kochkov, #3875
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200187Flag in 'formatoptions' is not used in the tests.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200188
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100189Patch to add 'vtp' option. (#5344)
190Needs better docs. Is there a better name?
191
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200192undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
193
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100194When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
195(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
196
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100197Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
198(Paul Jolly, #5656)
199Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
200BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100201Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100202
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100203Patch to add function to return the text used in the quickfix window.
204(Yegappan, #5465)
205
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100206Patch for Template string: #4491. New pull: #4634
207Implementation is too inefficient, avoid using lambda.
208
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100209Patch to add readdirex() (Ken Takata, #5619)
210
211Request to support <Cmd> in mappings, similar to how Neovim does this.
212(Daniel Hahler, #4784)
213
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200214Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
215
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100216:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
217Dec 19)
218
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100219Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
220May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200221Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
222remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200223Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100224Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200225
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100226Patch to support cindent option to handle pragmas differently.
227(Max Rumpf, #5468)
228
229Patch to make ":verbose pwd" show the scope of the directory. (Takuya
230Fujiwara, #5469)
231
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200232Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100233Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
234in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200235Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
236(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200237
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100238Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
239ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
240
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100241Patch to add "note" type to quickfix. (#5527) Missing tests.
242
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100243Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
244(#4087)
245
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100246FR: add search_status(), the current values displayed for search (current
247match, total matches). (#5631)
248Patch to provide search stats in a variable, so that it can be used in the
249statusline. (Fujiwara Takuya, #4446)
250
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200251":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
252goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
253unlisted. (#4478)
254
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100255Patch to include reduce() function. (#5481)
256
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100257Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100258
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200259Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
260
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200261Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
262Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
263
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100264Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
265
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100266Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
267
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200268The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
269support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
270
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200271Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
272It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
273Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
274Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
275
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100276"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
277
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100278Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
279
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100280Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
281
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100282Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
283
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200284Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
285(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
286
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200287When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
288default one. #4698
289
290When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
291with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
292
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100293Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100294Or make "v" prefix work?
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100295
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200296Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200297Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200298
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200299Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
300fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
301
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200302Patch to add per-tabpage and per-window previous directory: "lcd -" and "tcd
303-". (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4362)
304
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200305Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
306- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
307- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200308
309Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
31013, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200311
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100312Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
313
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200314Patch to configure BUILD_DATE for reproducible builds. (James McCoy, #513)
315
316Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
317
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100318Patch to support "0o" for octal numbers. (Ken Takata, #5304)
319
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100320When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
321when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
322gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
323input buffer. (#5302)
324
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200325xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
326buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
327Xterm 224 supports it!
328Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
329Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
330Also see issue #609.
331We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
332
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100333:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
334(#5467)
335
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200336Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200337
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100338Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
3392007 Feb 18)
340Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
341
342Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
343Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
344
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200345Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
346
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200347Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
348Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200349
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100350Errors found with random data:
351 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100352
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200353Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
354change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
355patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
356(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
357
358Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
359Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
360
361Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
362
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200363Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
364files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
365Include part of #3242?
366
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200367When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
368it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
369
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200370Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
371Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
372Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
373
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100374":2resize +10" uses size of the current window, adds 10 and applies it to
375window 2. User expects 10 to be added to size of window 2. (Daniel Steinberg,
376#5443)
377
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200378Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
379(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
380Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
381- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
382 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
383 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
384- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
385 covered by the above change.
386So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
387same thing. Remarks on PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
388Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200389
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200390Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
391t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
392
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100393v:register isn't reset early enough, may be used by next command.
394(Andy Massimino, #5294, possible fix in #5305)
395
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100396Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
397Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
398
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200399'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
400
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200401"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
402(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
403
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200404Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
405
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100406Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
407
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200408Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
409
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100410When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
411in a long line. #5189
412
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200413The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
414Give a few examples. (#4288)
415
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200416Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
417work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
418
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200419Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only adds the option, no implem.):
4207 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
421 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
422 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
423
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100424Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
425read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
426be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
427
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100428Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
429CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
430with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
431fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
432displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
433
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200434Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
435(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
436
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200437Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
438
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200439Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
440
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200441Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
442https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
443
444Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
445http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
446http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
447Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100448- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200449- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
450- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
451 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
452- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
453- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
454Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
455- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
456- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
457Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
458- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
459
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100460Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
461Mar 5)
462
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200463Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
464- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
465 line.
466- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
467 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
468- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
469 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
470
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200471Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
472on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
473
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200474Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
475in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
476buffer didn't change at all.
477
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200478Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
479register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
480(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
481
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200482Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
483(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
484
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200485Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
486":let buf = bufcreate('name')
487
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200488Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
489'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
490(#4450)
491
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100492When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
493But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
494similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
495
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200496C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
497(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
498
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100499Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
500added?
501
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200502Patch to add a flatten() function. #3676. Check that the doc explains the
503maxdepth argument (applies to the input "recursiveness").
504
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200505Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
506negative. (see #4326)
507
508'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
509`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
510tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
511:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
512
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200513This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
514 vim: syn=nosyntax
515
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200516":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
517a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
518
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100519Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
520#2948. (related to #1512?)
521On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
522balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
52320, #2481)
524Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
525Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
526balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
5272018 Sep 14)
528Another request: #3811.
529
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200530More warnings from static analysis:
531https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200532
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100533Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
534
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200535Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
536
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200537Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
538internals of the dict structure.
539
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100540nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
541
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200542Missing tests for:
543- add_termcap_entry()
544
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200545Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
546change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
547them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
548
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100549Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
550Also run all tests with C locale?
551
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100552"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
553#3927
554
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200555Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200556Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200557
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100558When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
559case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
560For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
561
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200562Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
563(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
564expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200565
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200566Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
567 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
568 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
569
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100570Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100571punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100572
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200573ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
574
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200575Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
576":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
577#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
578Updated 2019 May 25.
579
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200580Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
581drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
582
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200583Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
584is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
585
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100586When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
587scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
588using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
589
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200590Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
591#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
592(Sep 8)
593
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200594Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
595unified diff (list of lines).
596
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100597When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
598kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
599when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
600
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100601Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
602(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100603
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100604Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
605
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200606Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200607Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200608memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200609Memory leak in test_terminal:
610==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
611==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
612==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
613==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
614==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
615==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
616==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
617==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
618==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200619TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100620Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200621Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
622Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200623
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200624gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200625
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200626matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
62719.
628
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100629Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100630Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100631Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
632highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200633And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
634'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100635Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
636Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100637
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100638Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
639Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
640
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200641Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
642Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
643Not ready to include.
644
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200645Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
646Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
647Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
648
649Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
650
651Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
652screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
653
654Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
655 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
656 Not ready to include.
657
658Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
659Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
660
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200661home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
662
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200663When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
664terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
665How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
666
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200667Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
668
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100669Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
670Feedback from someone who uses this?
671
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200672ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
673
674Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
675Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
676values.
677
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100678Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200679- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
680- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
681- omit diff.exe from distribution
682- Can we make this show differences within a line?
683- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200684
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200685Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
686
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100687Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
688What is the practical use for this?
689
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200690When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
691includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
692
693Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200694Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200695
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200696MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
697(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
698
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100699Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
700
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200701Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
702
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200703Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
704window for the buffer.
705
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200706Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
707when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
708
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100709Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
710mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
711
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200712Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
713
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200714Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
715modified buffers
716 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
717 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
718 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
719 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
720
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100721Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
722- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
723- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
724- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100725- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
726
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200727Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
728characters. (#3246)
729
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200730'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
731
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100732Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
733Oct 28)
734
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200735ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
736Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
737Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
738Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
739
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100740Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
741- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
742
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200743Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
744- Test_setbufvar_options()
745- Test_exit_callback_interval()
746
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200747Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
748Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100749Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
750Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200751
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200752Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
753
754Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
75524)
756
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100757Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100758 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100759or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100760 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
761
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100762Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100763mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100764
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200765Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
766is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
767used for git temp files.
768
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100769Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
770
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200771Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
772behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
773(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
774
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200775Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
776pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
777
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200778Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
779script or function.
780
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200781When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
782E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
783does nothing otherwise?
784
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200785MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
786If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
787(wait a little while).
788CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100789
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200790Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
791MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
7922017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
793receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
794
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200795Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
796missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
797
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200798":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
799deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
800
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200801Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200802
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100803Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200804Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
805
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200806With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
807included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
808(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
809
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200810Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200811Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200812
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100813Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100814Jan 15, #2555)
815
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200816":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
817
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100818Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
819
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100820No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
821No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
822
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200823Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
824http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
825Should be supported with a flag.
826
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100827Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
828confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
829
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100830Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
831
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100832Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
833Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
834applying the diff, etc.
835
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200836Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
837Apr 26, #2849)
838
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100839User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
840word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100841
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100842Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200843
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200844With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
845(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
846
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200847Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
848:drop (remote commands).
849
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200850Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
8512018 Jun 18, #3027)
852
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200853Implement option_save() and option_restore():
854option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
855 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
856 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
857 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
858 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
859 be called when the same window is the current window.
860 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
861 the local options won't be restored.
862
863option_save({list}) *option_save()*
864 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
865 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
866 let s:saved_options = option_save([
867 \ 'ignorecase',
868 \ 'iskeyword',
869 \ ])
870 au <buffer> BufLeave *
871 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
872< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
873 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
874 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
875 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100876 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
877 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
878 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100879 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200880
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100881"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
882directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
883Also see #1689.
884
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100885When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100886highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100887
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200888":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
889
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100890No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
8912017 Dec 26, #2501)
892
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200893A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
894
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200895Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
896
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200897A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
898Mention where they were defined somewhere.
899
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100900Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
901(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
902
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200903ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
904
905Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
906
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100907Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
908Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
909
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100910Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
911in #846)
912Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
913
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200914Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
915Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
916
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100917When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
918redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200919
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100920In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
921(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
922
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100923Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
924neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100925
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100926Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
927Nov 21)
928
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200929When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
930triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
931set_color_count().
932
933Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
934responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
935
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100936When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
937CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
938Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
939always nested.
940
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200941matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
942
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100943Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
944
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100945MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100946for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
947
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200948Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100949(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200950
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200951Test runtime files.
952Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200953
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200954Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200955
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200956Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
957defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
958Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
959
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200960After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
96113, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200962
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200963When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
964line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
965
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100966The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
967
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200968Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
969set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
970
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100971Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
972
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200973Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
974behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
975
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100976'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
977
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200978The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
979
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100980When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
981a command can delete it.
982
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200983Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
984#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
985
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100986The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
987for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
988
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200989X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
990pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
991clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
992Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
993Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
994clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200995Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200996
997Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
998
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200999Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1000attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
1001that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
1002
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001003Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1004(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1005
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001006Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1007buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1008Also fixes #2166?
1009
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001010Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1011stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1012
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001013Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1014possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1015
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001016When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1017case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1018
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001019Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1020existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1021Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1022
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001023Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001024
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001025MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1026Jul 4)
1027
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001028Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1029Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1030This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1031Christian cannot reproduce it.
1032
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001033Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1034wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1035Or is this not an actual problem?
1036
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001037Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1038
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001039Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
1040
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001041Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1042
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001043'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1044#1736)
1045
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001046Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
10478, #1690)
1048
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001049Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1050(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1051
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001052Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1053it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1054
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001055Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1056Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1057How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1058
1059Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1060(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1061
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001062Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1063
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001064assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1065it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1066
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001067Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1068for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001069
1070Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1071(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1072Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1073later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1074Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1075mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001076Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1077mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001078maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001079
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001080Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001081plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1082be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1083
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001084Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1085 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1086 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001087
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001088json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001089What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001090
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001091Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1092
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001093import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1094(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1095
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001096When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1097buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1098Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001099
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001100Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1101Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001102Another example in #1309
1103
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001104When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1105when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1106
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001107Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1108#1330)
1109
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001110Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1111
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001112Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1113
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001114GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1115g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1116timer expires.
1117
1118Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1119
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001120Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1121highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1122
11238 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1124 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1125
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001126Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1127Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1128
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001129Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1130key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1131 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1132 echo keytrans(xx)
1133 <C-Home>
1134
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001135Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1136(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1137Make a function to check for function-like type?
1138
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001139Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1140(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1141
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +01001142Implement named arguments for functions:
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001143 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001144 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001145
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001146Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1147somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1148
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001149Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1150(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1151
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001152Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001153Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001154Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001155
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001156The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1157"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1158Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1159
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001160Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1161
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001162Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1163about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001164Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1165
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001166Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1167#1053) With patch, does it work?
1168
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001169":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001170vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1171
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001172Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001173E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001174Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001175
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001176Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1177Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1178
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001179Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001180Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001181
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001182"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1183(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1184
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001185Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1186(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001187Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001188
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001189'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1190
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001191Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1192
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001193When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1194Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001195Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001196
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001197Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1198anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1199
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001200Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001201E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001202
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001203Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1204(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1205
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001206Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1207
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001208On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1209separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1210
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001211min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1212contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1213
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001214Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1215
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001216Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1217
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001218Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1219
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001220Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1221no longer support.
1222
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001223sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
12244#1038)
1225
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001226+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001227- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001228- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1229 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1230 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001231- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1232 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001233- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1234- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1235 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1236- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1237 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1238- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001239- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1240 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001241- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1242- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1243 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1244 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1245- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1246- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1247- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1248 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1249 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1250- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1251 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1252- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1253 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1254 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1255
1256Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001257- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1258 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1259 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1260 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001261- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1262 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001263- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1264 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1265- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1266 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1267- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1268 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1269 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1270 LC_CTYPE
1271- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1272 matches everywhere.
1273- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1274 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1275- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1276- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1277 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1278- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1279- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1280 2013 Dec 11)
1281- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1282 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1283- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1284- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1285 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1286- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1287- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1288- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1289- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1290 2015 Feb 7)
1291- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1292 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1293 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1294 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1295 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1296- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1297- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1298- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1299- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1300 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1301 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1302 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1303- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1304 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1305- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1306 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1307 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1308 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1309
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001310Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1311#1350)
1312
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001313Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
13143. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1315Also see #1635.
1316
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001317Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001318Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1319use the current behavior.
1320Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001321
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001322When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1323command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1324
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001325Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1326doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1327Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001328Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001329E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1330
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001331execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001332#1141)
1333
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001334cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1335
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001336:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1337
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001338Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1339
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001340When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1341synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1342
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001343Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1344Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001345
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001346Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1347(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1348
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001349ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1350Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001351
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001352Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1353
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001354Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001355(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001356
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001357Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1358Jul 25, #948)
1359
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001360Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1361names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1362Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1363the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1364
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001365'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1366
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001367MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1368Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001369
1370Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1371Also for ":@.".
1372
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001373Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1374
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001375Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1376#1125
1377
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001378Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1379times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1380
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001381Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1382
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001383Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1384
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001385Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1386
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001387Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1388
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001389We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1390the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1391
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001392Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1393
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001394When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1395emoji_width table has only one entry.
1396
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001397It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1398Reject the value? #710.
1399
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001400When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1401Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1402
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001403Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001404
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001405Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1406No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001407
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001408Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1409(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001410
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001411Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1412
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001413Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1414https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1415Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1416
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001417Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1418but the reference remains valid.
1419
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001420Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001421interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1422Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1423interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1424result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001425
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001426Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001427work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001428
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001429Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1430
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001431Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1432
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001433Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1434Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1435
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001436When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1437Apr 17) #762
1438
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001439exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1440Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1441
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001442Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1443'iskeyword' for syntax.
1444
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001445Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1446(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1447
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001448Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1449
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001450When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1451maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001452Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001453
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001454Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1455It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1456Add configure check?
1457Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1458Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1459Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1460
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001461Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1462Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1463
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001464Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1465Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1466
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001467":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1468directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1469
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001470In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1471(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1472
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001473If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
14742016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001475
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001476Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1477(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1478
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001479Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1480
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001481When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1482restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1483Do not trigger the event?
1484
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001485Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1486changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1487and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001488Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1489Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
14906, 2nd message)
1491Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001492
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001493Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1494Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1495https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1496
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001497Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1498With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1499
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001500Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001501
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001502Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1503
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001504Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001505Only remembers one error.
1506
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001507GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001508
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001509Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1510(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001511
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001512Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1513github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001514 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001515Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001516
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001517Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001518
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001519Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001520comparing individual items.
1521Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1522Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1523Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1524equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1525
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001526Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1527
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001528MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1529wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1530
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001531Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1532specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1533
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001534Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1535(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1536
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001537Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001538inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001539
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001540Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1541(Luchr, #277)
1542
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001543Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001544'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1545before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001546
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001547C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1548and also line continuation after #include.
1549I can't recommend it though.
1550
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001551Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1552(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1553
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001554To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1555library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1556
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001557When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1558is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1559
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001560Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
156130)
1562
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001563MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1564(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1565
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001566The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
156724): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001568
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001569":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1570effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1571
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001572":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15739)
1574
1575The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1576wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1577
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001578Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001579Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001580
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001581When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1582the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1583
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001584Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001585slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1586inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1587
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001588ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
15892014 Sep 11)
1590
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001591Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1592(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1593
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001594When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1595'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1596
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001597Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1598Work in progress.
1599
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001600Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1601when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1602
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001603Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1604Is this right?
1605
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001606Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1607(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1608Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1609
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001610Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1611Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001612
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001613Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1614Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1615
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001616Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1617
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001618When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1619filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1620initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1621
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001622Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1623
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001624Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1625OK to not block marks?
1626
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001627Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1628
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001629Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1630
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001631When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1632(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1633
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001634Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001635
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001636Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1637(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1638
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001639When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1640any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1641
1642Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001643
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001644Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001645
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001646Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1647(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1648
1649Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1650
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001651Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1652Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1653was already defined.
1654(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1655
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001656Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1657
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001658Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001659Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001660Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001661Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001662
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001663Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1664(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1665
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001666Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1667(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1668
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001669Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1670
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001671When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1672these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1673window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1674
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001675Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1676should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1677history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1678Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1679
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001680"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1681Jun 8)
1682
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001683Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1684insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1685
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001686No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1687
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001688Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1689(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1690Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1691arguments.
1692
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001693Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1694
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001695Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001696
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001697Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
16980x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1699New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1700compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1701
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001702Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1703a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1704
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001705Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1706right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001707its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001708
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001709Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1710
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001711This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1712 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1713This neither: (ZyX)
1714 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1715
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001716'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1717Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1718from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001719
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001720Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
17212014 Jun 8)
1722
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001723Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001724Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001725Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1726Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1727User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001728- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1729 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1730 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001731- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1732- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1733 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1734 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1735 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1736 on vim.org.
1737- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1738 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1739- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1740- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1741- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1742- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1743Implementation:
1744- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1745 plugin separate.
1746- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1747 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1748 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1749- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1750 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1751- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1752 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1753 installing.
1754Out of scope:
1755- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1756- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1757 useful).
1758
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001759Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1760normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001761
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001762When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1763menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1764
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001765Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1766(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1767
1768":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1769various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001770
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001771Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001772(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1773
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001774VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1775instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1776
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001777Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001778Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001779
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001780Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001781command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001782
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001783Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1784
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001785Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1786highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001787
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001788The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1789For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1790
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001791Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001792possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001793
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001794Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001795
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001796Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1797
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017987 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1799 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1800 "lucida_console:h8").
1801Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1802
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001803:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1804
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001805Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1806
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001807Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1808
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001809When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1810(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1811
1812Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001813Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001814
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001815GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1816(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1817
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001818Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1819registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1820
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001821Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1822
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001823The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1824(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1825Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1826
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001827The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1828- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1829- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1830
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001831Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1832Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1833reliably?
1834
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001835Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1836(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1837
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001838Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1839(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1840
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001841Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
18422013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001843
1844Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1845
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001846Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
18475)
1848
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001849Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1850carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1851
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001852Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1853highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1854
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001855Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001856
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001857Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200185828) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001859
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001860Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1861
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001862Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1863
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001864- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1865 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1866Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001867
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001868Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001869
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001870In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1871process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1872a reboot.
1873
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001874patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1875
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001876Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1877not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001878
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001879Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1880Or use expand('<sid>')?
1881
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001882Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1883
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001884Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1885
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001886b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
18877)
1888
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001889Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1890compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1891
1892Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1893Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1894vim.bindeval().
1895
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001896Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18972012 Aug 4)
1898
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001899Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1900(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1901
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001902Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1903But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1904
1905Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1906Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1907Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001908
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001909Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1910loading all files.
1911
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001912MS-Windows resizing problems:
1913- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1914 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1915- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1916 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1917 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001918
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001919'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001920
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001921Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001922of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1923
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001924The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1925Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1926But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001927
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001928When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1929is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1930
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001931URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001932- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001933- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1934 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1935
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001936Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1937(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1938Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1939
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001940Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001941New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001942
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001943When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1944for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1945Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001946
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001947Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1948
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001949Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1950
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001951Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1952Apr 18)
1953
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001954Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1955And one for gui_x11.txt.
1956
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001957":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1958finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1959Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1960
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001961Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1962
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001963Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1964
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001965Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1966they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1967
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001968Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1969
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001970Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1971Nov 20)
1972
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001973Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001974Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001975
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001976`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001977(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1978
1979Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1980
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001981BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1982Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1983
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001984Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1985Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1986
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001987Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1988
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001989On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
19902012 Jun 19)
1991
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001992'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1993'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1994Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001995Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001996
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001997With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1998(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1999need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2000
2001Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2002only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
200321, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2004
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002005Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2006New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2007
2008Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2009Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2010
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002011Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2012Jan 19)
2013
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002014Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2015discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2016meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002017
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002018"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002019Oct 26)
2020
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002021Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2022
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002023With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2024register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002025
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002026Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2027
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002028When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2029(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2030
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002031When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2032then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2033from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2034
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002035Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2036":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
203715)
2038
2039Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2040
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002041BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2042cleared. See test64.
2043
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002044Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002045effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002046Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01002047https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002048
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002049On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
205064 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2051right type.
2052
2053string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2054(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2055
2056When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2057(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002058When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2059following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2060(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002061
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002062When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2063doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2064
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002065Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2066
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002067maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
2068mapping, how to restore the script ID?
2069
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002070Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
2071(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
2072
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002073When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2074indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2075the help file.
2076
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002077After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2078Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2079
2080Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2081
2082"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2083
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002084Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2085
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002086Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002087
2088Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
20892010 Dec 18)
2090
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002091With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2092number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2093Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2094
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002095Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2096Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2097
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020988 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2099Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2100
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002101Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2102one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2103the match scrolls into view.
2104
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021057 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2106Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2107Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2108
21099 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2110 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2111Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2112
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002113Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2114Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2115
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002116In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2117or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2118sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2119
2120GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2121doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2122
2123GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2124
2125Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2126Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2127
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002128Wish for NetBeans commands:
2129 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2130
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002131Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2132
21337.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2134there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2135do?
2136
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002137Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
213822)
2139
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002140New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2141- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002142- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002143 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2144
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002145"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
21462011 Feb 27)
2147
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002148Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2149^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2150
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002151When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2152exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
21539) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2154
2155g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2156the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2157
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002158Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2159crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2160
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002161Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2162number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2163
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002164Regexp engine performance:
2165- Profiling:
2166 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2167 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2168 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2169 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2170 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2171 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2172- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2173- Performance tests:
2174 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2175 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2176 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2177 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2178 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2179 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2180 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2181 'hlsearch'.
2182 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2183 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2184 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2185 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2186
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002187Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2188Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2189
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002190'beval' option should be global-local.
2191
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002192Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002193
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002194setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002195
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002196With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
21972010 Oct 24)
2198
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002199Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2200
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002201When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2202Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2203
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002204":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2205
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002206'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2207
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002208C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2209checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2210Issue 46.
2211
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002212Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2213
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002214Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2215gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2216
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002217":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2218accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2219
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002220Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2221setwinvar().
2222
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002223Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002224
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002225When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2226instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2227
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002228Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2229Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2230Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002231
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002232Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2233back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2234
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002235Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002236Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2237
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002238CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2239the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2240FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2241
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002242Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2243Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2244
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002245Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2246Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2247
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002248Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2249
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002250Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2251non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002252
2253iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2254Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2255or replace with a character and continue?
2256
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002257Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2258Requires configure check for localtime().
2259Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2260
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002261Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2262Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2263
2264Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2265
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002266Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2267Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2268path.
2269
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002270Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002271Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002272
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002273'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2274
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002275":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2276like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2277
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002278Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2279https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002280
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002281Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
22822010 Nov 5)
2283
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002284Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002285Jan 7)
2286
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002287Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2288
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002289With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2290entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2291Feb 12)
2292
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002293Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2294characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2295
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002296Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2297
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002298Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2299 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2300
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002301Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2302
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002303When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2304Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2305
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002306When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2307not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2308string value.
2309
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002310For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002311line argument -noregister.
2312
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002313When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2314missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2315
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002316When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2317doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002318
2319Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2320(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2321Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2322There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2323Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2324
2325":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2326highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2327to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2328
2329Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2330Probably needs a bit of work.
2331
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002332List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002333Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2334
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002335Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2336
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002337Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2338
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002339Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2340Sep 1)
2341
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002342Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2343
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002344Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2345on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2346
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002347Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
23482009 Jul 18)
2349
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002350Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2351window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2352Needs more work.
2353
2354Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2355
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002356When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2357few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2358
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002359'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002360(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2361
2362Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2363J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2364
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002365When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2366for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2367
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002368Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2369
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002370":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2371because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2372ex_docmd.c.
2373
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002374Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002375Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2376
2377string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2378for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2379
2380Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2381
2382'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
238320)
2384
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002385Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
23862009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2387
2388Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2389
2390Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2391SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2392
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002393When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2394indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2395(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2396
2397Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2398are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2399Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2400Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2401that doesn't have a window.
2402
2403When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2404doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2405
2406getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2407displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2408
2409":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2410
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002411There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2412was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2413perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2414
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002415Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2416
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002417Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2418command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2419
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002420Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2421does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2422
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002423opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2424height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002425very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002426
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002427Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2428(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2429
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002430Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002431(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2432
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002433Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2434char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2435
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002436Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2437Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2438
2439This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2440
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002441Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2442messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2443es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
24442009 Jan 26)
2445
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002446When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002447in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2448Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2449
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002450Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2451a modeline.
2452
2453Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2454Sergey Khorev)
2455
2456Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2457part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002458
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002459After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2460correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2461
2462Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2463(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2464
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002465shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002466'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2467Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2468unix-like shell?
2469
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002470Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2471register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2472(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2473
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002474Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2475Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2476
2477Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2478make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2479
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002480When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2481still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2482
2483"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2484(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2485
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002486Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2487that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2488ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2489Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2490
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002491MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2492doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2493probably causes this.
2494
2495'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020024962009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002497
2498Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2499 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2500 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2501(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2502
2503Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2504":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2505option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2506is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002507
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002508":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2509first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002510Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002511
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002512Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2513laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2514Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002515
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002516Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2517anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2518
2519On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2520doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2521Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2522Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2523
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002524When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2525'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2526fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2527the buffer to be unmodified.
2528Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2529another look at it.
2530
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002531c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2532(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2533
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002534You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2535error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2536Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2537at the other match for 0xBF.
2538
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002539When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2540argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2541
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002542Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2543backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2544
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002545When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2546line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2547
2548Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2549position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2550
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002551After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2552(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002553command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002554
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002555":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2556Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2557
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002558When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2559either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2560put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2561
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002562Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2563Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2564Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2565Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2566(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2567
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002568Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2569
2570ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002571
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002572Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2573(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2574escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2575an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002576This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2577July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002578Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2579work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2580
2581When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
258231)
2583
2584Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2585work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2586Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002587
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002588Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2589multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2590(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2591
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002592Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
25932008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002594Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002595
2596Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2597Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2598'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2599
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002600Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2601Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2602
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002603Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2604Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2605
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020026068 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2607 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2608 several).
2609 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2610 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2611 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2612Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2613
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002614The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002615 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002616 0x2217, star
2617 0x2500, bar
2618 0x26ab, circle
2619
2620Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2621line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2622
2623GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2624Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2625
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002626Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2627try the Cocoa version.
2628
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002629Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2630changed or the window is resized.
2631
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002632GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2633the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2634
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002635Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2636Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002637
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002638Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
26391) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2640
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002641C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2642with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2643Try to reproduce at work.
2644
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002645Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2646Is there a way to list all the files first?
2647
2648When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2649result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
265016)
2651
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002652Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2653(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2654
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002655Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2656Await response to question to make the register writable.
2657
2658Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
26591)
2660
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002661In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2662each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2663
2664try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2665
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002666try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2667
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002668":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2669Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2670
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002671Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2672
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002673Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2674Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2675
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002676Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2677Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2678Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002679
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002680When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2681and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2682
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002683Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2684 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2685
2686New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2687
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002688":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2689a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2690
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002691'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2692Likonen, March 19)
2693
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002694Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2695other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2696
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002697The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2698appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2699matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2700
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002701When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2702character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2703'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2704(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2705
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002706Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2707Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002708
2709More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2710
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002711Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2712http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2713
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002714Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2715back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2716Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002717
2718Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2719No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2720
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002721Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2722terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002723
2724Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2725
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002726Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2727but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2728that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002729
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002730Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2731Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2732
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002733Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2734popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2735size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2736This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2737
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002738When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2739it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2740
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002741Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2742then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2743files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002744Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2745indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2746":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002747in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2748quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002749Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002750
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002751When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2752parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2753neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2754particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2755Jun 3)
2756However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2757the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002758
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002759A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2760Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2761
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002762Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2763Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2764
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002765Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2766switch list is noticed:
2767 switch (i)
2768 {
2769 case 1:
2770 foobar:
2771 }
2772
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002773Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2774
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002775Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2776with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2777go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2778moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2779
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002780Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002781GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002782Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2783argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2784(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2785
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002786Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2787(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2788
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002789Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
27902007 Feb 8)
2791
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002792Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2793set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002794
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002795Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2796
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002797Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2798Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2799New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2800patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2801
2802Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2803Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2804
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002805Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002806label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2807
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002808Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2809with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2810Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002811
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002812Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2813
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002814Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2815Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2816only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2817
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002818Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2819Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002820Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002821properly?
2822
2823Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
28242007 Jun 21)
2825
2826When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2827Jun 18)
2828
2829If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2830
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002831Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2832windows. (Adam George)
2833
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002834In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2835the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2836
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002837C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2838
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002839":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2840
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002841When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002842error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002843
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002844GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002845use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2846
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002847Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2848if_ruby.c.
2849
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002850":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2851
2852The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2853it in keep_msg?
2854
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002855Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002856error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002857name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2858
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002859Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2860longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002861
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002862Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2863Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2864Also for ":w" without a file name.
2865The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002866
2867"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2868Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2869
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002870VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2871directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2872(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2873
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002874VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2875
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002876input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2877name?
2878
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002879Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2880
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002881When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2882(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002883Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002884will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2885
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002886gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2887This also fails with --remote.
2888
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002889When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
28902008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2891all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2892
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002893aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2894
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002895When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2896(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2897
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002898Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2899the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2900
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002901GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2902
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002903Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2904superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2905
2906Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2907character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2908
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002909Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2910Jun 5)
2911
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002912Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
29132008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2914Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2915
2916In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2917but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2918Jul 22)
2919
2920There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2921
2922Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2923":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2924somehow? Or use a new function.
2925
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002926Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2927
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002928Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2929moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2930that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2931
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002932The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2933
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002934When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002935cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2936the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2937
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002938These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2939 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2940 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2941 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2942
2943Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2944partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2945
2946In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2947buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2948reload it then?
2949
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002950For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2951
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002952Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2953only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2954
2955Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2956tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2957doesn't contain other directories.
2958
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002959Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2960Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2961
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002962Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2963 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2964 set background=dark
2965This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2966color is, not reset it.
2967
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002968Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2969start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2970show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2971middle?
2972
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002973Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2974
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002975When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2976current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2977the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2978
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002979When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2980Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2981
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002982Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2983Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2984
2985Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2986
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002987A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2988Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2989
2990Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2991Dara, 2006 June 21)
2992
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002993Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2994number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2995
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002996After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2997the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2998
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002999Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003000
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003001Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3002Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3003
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003004Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010030052008 Sep 29)
3006
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003007In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3008check the result of has("patch13").
3009
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003010Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3011restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3012
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003013Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3014and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3015
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003016Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3017put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3018
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003019Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3020resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3021
3022In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3023can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3024
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003025GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3026maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3027doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003028Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3029visible.
3030
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003031When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3032differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003033
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003034The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3035be only one.
3036
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003037Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003038"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3039name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3040Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003041
3042Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3043(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3044
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003045Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3046as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3047
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003048Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
304923)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003050
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003051":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3052tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3053Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003054
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003055When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3056text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3057latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3058
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003059Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3060no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3061
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003062In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3063VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
30642007 Oct 16)
3065
3066TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3067Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3068
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003069Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003070
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003071When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3072typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3073Sep 3, 11)
3074
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003075":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3076this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3077
3078When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3079Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3080restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3081
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003082Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
30832010 Jun 30)
3084
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003085Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3086'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3087(Kartik Agaram)
3088
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003089
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003090Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003091- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3092 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3093- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3094 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3095 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3096- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3097 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3098 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003099- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3100- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003101
3102
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003103More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003104- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3105 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003106- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003107- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3108 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003109- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3110- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3111- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3112 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3113 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003114- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003115- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3116 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3117- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3118 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3119- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3120 21)
3121- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3122 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3123- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3124 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003125- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3126 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003127- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3128 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3129 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3130 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3131 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003132- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003133
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003134Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000031359 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3136 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3137 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3138 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3139 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3140 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3141 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3142 (Alan Schmitt)
3143 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003144 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3145 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000031469 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003147 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031488 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031497 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3150 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3151 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031528 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003153 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020031547 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003155 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3156- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3157 for multi-byte characters.
3158- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3159- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3160 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3161 been given values.
3162 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031637 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3164 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3165- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3166 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3167 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
31688 Add functions:
3169 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3170 Update 2004 Sep 10
3171 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3172 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003173 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003174 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3175 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3176 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3177 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3178 (2003 May 13)
3179 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3180 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003181 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3182 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003183 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3184 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3185 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031867 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3187 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031887 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3189 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000031908 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3191 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031927 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
31938 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3194 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
31957 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3196 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031977 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3198- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3199 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3200 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003201- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3202 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3203- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3204
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003205Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3206- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3207 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3208
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003209Quickfix/Location List:
3210- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3211 #2999)
3212- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3213 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3214 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3215 the quickfix buffer?
3216- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3217 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3218- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3219 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3220- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3221 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3222 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3223- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3224 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3225- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3226- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3227 2007 Jan 1)
3228- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3229 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3230- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3231 errors. How do we get the rest?
32328 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3233 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3234 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3235 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
32367 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3237 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003238
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003239Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003240- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3241 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032428 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3243 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3244 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3245 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3246 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3247 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032488 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3249 make Vim exit.
32507 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3251 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3252 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
32538 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3254 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3255 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
32566 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3257 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3258 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
32598 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3260 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3261 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3262 names in one buffer???
3263 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3264 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3265 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
32667 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3267 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3268 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003269 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3270 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032717 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3272 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32737 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
32747 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032757 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3276 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3277 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3278 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
32797 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
32807 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
32817 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3282 to the match with the tag? Option?
32837 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
32847 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3285 (Sayre).
32867 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3287 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032887 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3289 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3290 match. Nvi can do it too.
32917 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3292 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3293 line 1\ line 2\\
3294 line 2\ line 3\\
3295 . line4/
32966 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3297 the way the shell is started?
32986 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3299 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3300
3301
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003302GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033039 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033048 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3305 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3306 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000033078 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3308 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3309 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033109 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3311 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3312 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3313 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003314- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3315 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3316 blocked for now.
3317
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003318
3319Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003320- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3321 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033228 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3323 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3324 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033256 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3326 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000033278 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3328 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3329 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033307 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3331 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3332 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033337 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3334 2004 May 9)
33358 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3336 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3337 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3338 MS-Windows 98?
3339 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3340 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3341 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3342 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033438 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3344 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3345 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3346 doesn't work properly.
33478 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3348 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3349 appears in the right position. (Webb)
33509 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3351 button doesn't give popup menu.
3352 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3353 selection.
3354 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3355 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3356 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
33578 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3358 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3359 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3360 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
33618 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3362 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3363 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033647 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3365 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003366 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033677 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3368 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033696 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
33708 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3371 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3372 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33738 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3374 know which keyboard is being used?
33757 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3376 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3377 area (Koloseike).
33788 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3379 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3380 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3381 the font name).
3382
3383
3384Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033856 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3386 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3387 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3388 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3389 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033909 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3391 required and it's missing?
33928 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3393 wrong.
33949 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3395 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033969 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003397 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3398 flag.
33998 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3400 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3401 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
34028 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
34036 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3404 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3405 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3406 the tooltips work though...
34077 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3408 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
34098 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3410 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3411 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3412
3413
3414Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010034159 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3416 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034179 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3418 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3419 through files.
34207 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3421 read long file names. (Schroeder)
34224 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3423 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3424 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3425 problem during a refresh.
34265 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3427 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3428 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3429 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3430 colors as it should.
3431 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3432 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3433
3434
3435Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003436- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034377 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3438 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034398 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3440 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3441 (Phillipps)
3442
3443
3444GUI:
34459 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3446 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
34479 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003448 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003449 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
34509 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3451 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
34528 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3453 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
34548 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3455 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3456 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
34578 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3458 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3459 of where it is processing the output.
3460 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
34618 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3462 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010034638 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034648 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3465 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3466 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034678 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034688 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3469 browse().
34708 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3471 use that code? Or use console dialog.
34728 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3473 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034747 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3475 - regexp on/off
3476 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3477 when all buffers/directory is used:
3478 - filter for file name
3479 when directory is used:
3480 - subdirectory on/off
3481 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034828 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3483 to avoid problems.
34848 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3485 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3486 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
34878 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3488 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3489 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
34908 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3491 up. Set erase character somehow?
34928 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3493 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3494 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3495 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
34968 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
34977 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3498 visible.
34997 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3500 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
35017 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3502 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
35038 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3504 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
35058 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3506 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3507 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3508 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3509- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
35104 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3511 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3512 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3513
3514
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003515Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035168 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3517 a good fallback, thus use:
3518 $HOME
3519 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3520 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3521 $USERPROFILE
3522 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3523 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3524 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3525 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035268 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3527 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
35288 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3529 Should work like in the GUI version.
35308 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3531 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
35328 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3533 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
35348 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3535 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3536 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035378 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3538 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3539 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3540
3541
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003542Win32 console:
35439 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3544 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3545 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3546 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3547 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3548 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3549 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3550 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3551 and the file is not saved.
3552 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3553 long name.
35548 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3555 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
35567 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3557 besides the console.
35588 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
35599 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3560 <C-S-i>?
35619 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3562 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
35638 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3564 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003565
3566
3567Amiga:
35688 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3569 sequences.
35709 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3571 backslashes in result.
35728 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3573 all options, using white space separation.
3574
3575
3576Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003577- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035787 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3579 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3580 (Jack)
3581 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035828 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3583 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035848 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
35858 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
35869 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3587 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035889 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003589
3590
3591"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003592- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3593 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003594- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3595 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003596- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3597 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3598 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3599 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3600 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3601 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3602 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000036039 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3604 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000036059 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003606 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3607 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036088 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3609 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3610 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003611 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036127 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3613 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
36148 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3615 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3616 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036177 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3618 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003619- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3620 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036218 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3622 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3623 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3624 using the horizontal scrollbar.
36257 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3626 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3627 invocations belong together.
36288 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3629 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
36308 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3631 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3632 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003633 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036348 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3635 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3636 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036378 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3638 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036397 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3640 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3641 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3642 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036437 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3644 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3645 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
36467 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3647 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3648 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
36497 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3650 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036517 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3652 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036539 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3654 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3655 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3656 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3657 script can be called.
36588 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3659 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3660 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036618 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3662 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036638 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003664 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3665 configurable?
36668 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036678 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3668 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036698 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3670 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036718 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3672 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036739 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3674 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3675 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036767 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036778 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3678 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3679 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000036808 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3681 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003682 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3683 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036848 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3685 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
36869 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3687 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3688 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003689 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036907 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3691 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036927 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3693 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3694 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3695 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036968 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003697 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3698 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3699 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3700 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003701 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3702 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003703 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003704 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003705 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3706 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3707 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3708 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3709 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037108 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3711 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
37128 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3713 in lines that don't extend into the block?
37148 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3715 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3716 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
37178 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3718 'linebreak'.
37198 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3720 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3721 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037229 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3723 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3724 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3725 'magic' in history. (Margo)
37269 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3727 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037289 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
37299 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3730 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3731 cause another redraw, etc.
37328 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3733 must escape special characters in the pattern.
37348 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3735 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3736 ":w!!" for that.
3737 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3738 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003739 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037407 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3741 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3742 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3743 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3744 clipboard)
37457 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3746 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3747 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000037486 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3749 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3750 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037518 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3752 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
37538 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3754 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3755 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
37568 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3757 (e.g., ":w").
37588 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3759 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037608 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3761 script in do_cmdline().
37628 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3763 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3764 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3765 changes.
37668 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3767 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37688 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3769 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037708 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3771 to skip catch_signals()?
37729 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3773 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3774 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3775 text?
37768 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3777 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37788 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3779 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
37809 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3781 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3782 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3783 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3784 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
37857 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3786 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3787 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3788 in the list?
37898 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3790 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3791 instead of on button down.
37928 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
37939 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3794 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003795 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3796 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037978 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3798 character is typed.
37998 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3800 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
38018 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3802 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
38038 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3804 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3805 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3806 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3807 cygwin bash.
38087 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3809 Remember flags for backreferences.
38107 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3811 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
38127 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3813 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
38148 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3815 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
38167 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3817 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038187 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3819 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3820 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
38217 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3822 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
38238 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3824 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3825 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
38267 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3827 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003828
3829
3830I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
38319 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3832 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3833 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003834
3835
3836Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003837- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3838 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3839 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003840- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3841 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3842 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3843 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3844 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3845 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003846 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003847- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3848 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003849 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003850 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3851 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3852 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003853- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3854 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3855 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3856 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3857 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3858- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3859 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3860 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3861- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3862 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003863- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003864- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3865 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3866 character gets the highlighting.
3867- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3868 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3869- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3870 (Jennings)
3871- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003872- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003873- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003874 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003875- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3876 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3877 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3878- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3879 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3880 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3881 (Benzinger).
3882- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3883 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3884 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3885- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3886 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3887- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3888 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3889- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3890 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3891 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3892 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3893 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3894 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3895- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3896 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3897 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003898- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3899 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3900 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003901- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3902 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3903 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3904- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3905 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3906- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3907 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003908- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3909 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3910- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3911 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3912 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3913 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3914 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3915- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3916 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3917 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3918- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3919 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3920 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003921- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3922 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 +00003923- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3924 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3925 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3926 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3927 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3928- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3929 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3930
3931--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3932 *extensions-improvements*
3933
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003934Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3935- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3936 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3937 calling a function.
3938 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3939 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003940- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3941 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003942 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003943- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3944 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3945 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3946 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3947 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3948 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003949 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003950- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3951 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3952 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003953- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3954 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039558 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3956 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3957 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3958 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003959- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3960 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003961
3962
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003963Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039648 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3965 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039668 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3967 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039688 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3969 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039708 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039719 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3972 - change to cursor position and curswant
3973 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3974 - how it works for folded lines
3975 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39769 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3977 work too.
39788 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3979 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3980 text.
39818 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
39827 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3983 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
39847 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3985 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003986 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003987- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3988
3989
3990Help:
3991- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3992 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3993- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3994 to the other matches.
3995- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003996- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3997 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3998 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3999 default contents.
4000- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4001 height for the help window (and other windows).
4002- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4003- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4004- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4005
4006
4007User Friendlier:
40088 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4009 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4010 Briscoe)
40118 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
40128 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4013 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4014 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
40158 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4016 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4017- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4018 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004019- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
40209 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4021 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4022 item?).
4023 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040248 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000040257 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4026 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4027 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000040288 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4029 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4030 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4031 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004032
4033
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004034Tab pages:
40359 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040367 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4037 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040388 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000040398 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040407 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040417 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004042 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040438 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4044 tab pages.
40457 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4046
4047
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004048Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004049- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004050 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004051- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4052 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4053 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4054- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4055 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004056- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4057 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4058 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004059- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4060 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4061 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004062- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4063 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004064- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004065 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4066 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040678 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4068 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40698 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4070 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40718 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4072 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004073 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004074 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4075 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4076 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4077 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004078- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4079 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004080- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004081- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4082 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004083- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004084 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004085- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004086 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004087- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4088 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004089- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4090 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4091- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004092 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004093 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4094 in the affix file separately.
4095 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004096 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004097 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4098 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4099 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4100- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4101 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4102 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4103 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4104 Alternative:
4105 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4106 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4107 affix which is required.
4108- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004109 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004110- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4111 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4112 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004113- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4114 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004115- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4116 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4117- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041188 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4119 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4120 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4121 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004122- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4123 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4124 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4125 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041268 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4127 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041288 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
41298 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4130 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041317 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
41328 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4133 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4134 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4135 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004136
4137
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004138Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020041399 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4140 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020041418 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004142 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004143
4144Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004145 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4146 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041478 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4148 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041498 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4150 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041518 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4152 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4153 user aware of this?
41548 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4155 commands skip over a closed fold.
41568 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41578 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041587 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004159- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4160 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4161 missing line goes unnoticed.
4162 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004163- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4164 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4165 smoother?
4166- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4167 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004168- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4169 file can contain:
4170 args version.c main.c
4171 edit version.c
4172 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004173- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004174- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4175 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004176- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4177 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004178- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4179 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004180- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004181
4182Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004183- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4184 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4185 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4186 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041879 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4188 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4189 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4190 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041919 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4192 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4193 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041948 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4195 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4196 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4197 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4198 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4199 item.
42008 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004201 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4202 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042038 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4204 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042058 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4206 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4207 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042087 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4209 so that the user can fix the problem.
42108 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4211 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042129 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
42138 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042148 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
42158 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042167 Searching and composing characters:
4217 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004218 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4219 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042208 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
42218 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
42228 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4223 characters.
42248 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
42258 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4226 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
42277 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4228 'display' option to specify this.
42297 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4230 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4231- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4232 fontselector somehow.
4233- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4234 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4235- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4236 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4237- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4238 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4239 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4240 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4241 if a font exists?
4242- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004243 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004244- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4245 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004246- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4247 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4248 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4249 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004250- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4251 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004252 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004253- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4254 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4255 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4256 But it's very complicated...
4257
4258
4259Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042607 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004261- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4262- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4263 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004264- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4265 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004266- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4267- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4268 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004269- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4270 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004271- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4272 units as for the margins.
4273- Support right-to-left text?
42748 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4275 color.
4276
4277
4278Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042798 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4280 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
42818 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4282 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
42838 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4284 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000042857 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4286 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042878 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4288 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4289 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042907 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4291 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4292 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042938 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
42949 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4295 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042967 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4297 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000042987 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4299 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043008 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4301 change this for each release.
43028 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4303 pattern, but not in the body.
43048 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4305 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4306 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043078 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010043088 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004309 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4310 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043118 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4312 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
43138 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4314 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004315 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043168 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4317 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4318 used.
43198 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4320 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
43218 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4322 re-insert the [] if possible.
43238 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4324 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000043258 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4326 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4327 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4328 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4329 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043308 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4331 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
43328 Support for deleting syntax items:
4333 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4334 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4335 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
43368 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4337 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4338 a '<'. (Fleiner)
43397 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4340 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4341 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
43427 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4343 detected.
43448 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004345 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043468 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4347 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043488 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43498 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43507 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4351 ":mkvimrc".
43528 Improve c.vim:
4353 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4354 "c_strict_ansi".
4355 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43568 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4357 current line while in Insert mode.
43588 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4359 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43608 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4361 display position.
43628 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4363 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4364 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43658 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4366 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4367 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043687 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4369 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4370 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4371 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4372 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043737 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4374 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4375 E.g. for this html:
4376 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043777 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43787 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4379 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043808 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
43818 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043827 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4383 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4384 completion?
43858 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4386 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
43877 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4388 select one of the sets.
43898 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4390 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4391 2, etc.
43928 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4393 highlighting (for "." command).
43948 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4395 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
43968 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
43977 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4398 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
43996 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4400 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4401- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4402 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4403- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004404- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4405 (for comment blocks).
4406- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4407 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4408 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4409 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4410 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4411 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4412 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4413 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4414 (Campbell)
4415 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4416 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
44177 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4418 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
44197 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4420 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4421 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
44227 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4423 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4424 messages. And external commands?
44258 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4426 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
44277 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4428 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4429
4430
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004431Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044328 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4433 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004434 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000044357 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4436 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4437 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044388 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4439 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004440- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020044418 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4442 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4443 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4444 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4445 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4446 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044477 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4448 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044498 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044508 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4451 can be the plugin name.
4452 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4453 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044547 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4455 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4456 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4457 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4458 autocommand.
4459 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4460 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4461 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4462 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044637 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4464 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044656 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4466 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044678 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004468 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4469 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004470 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4471 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4472 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004473 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4474 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4475 3 2002
4476 Only add this when also implemented for
4477 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4478 be used.
4479 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004480 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4481 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4482 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4483 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4484 File.Open..." argument.
4485 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4486 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4487 with properties instead.
4488 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4489 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4490 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004491 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004492 crypt() encrypt string
4493 decrypt() decrypt string
4494 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4495 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004496 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004497 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004498 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004499 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004500 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004501 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4502 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004503 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4504 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004505 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004506 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4507 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4508 to allow the library to execute a command or
4509 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045107 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4511 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
45128 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4513 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045148 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4515 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045168 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045176 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045188 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4519 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045208 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4521 option or environment variable.
45228 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045238 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004524 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045257 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4526 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045278 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4528 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
45298 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
45308 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4531 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4532 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4533 charwise({expr}).
45347 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4535 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4536 buffer for this?
4537 result = scratch(string, command)
4538 result = apply(string, command)
4539 result = execute(string, command)
4540 "command" would use <> notation.
4541 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45427 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004543
4544
4545Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045466 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4547 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4548 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4549 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4550 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4551 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4552 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004553
4554
4555Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045567 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4557 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045587 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4559 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4560 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4561 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045628 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4563 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4564 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4565 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004566 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045678 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45689 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45698 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45707 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4571 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45728 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4573 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4574 when starting up in a color terminal.
45758 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4576 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045778 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4578 function be improved?
45798 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4580 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4581 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4582 this be improved?
45838 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4584 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000045857 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4586 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045877 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4588 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
45897 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4590 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045917 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4592 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4593 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4594 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4595 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4596 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4597 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045988 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4599 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4600 using strcmp() too often?
46017 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4602 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4603 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4604 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4605 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4606 the two blocks to the memfile block.
46077 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4608 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4609 with an argument that can be messed with.
4610 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4611 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
46127 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4613- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
46148 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4615 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4616- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4617 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4618- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4619- Do profiling on:
4620 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004621 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4622 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4623 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4624 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4625 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4626 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004627 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046287 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4629 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4630 changed).
4631 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4632 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4633- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4634- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4635 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4636- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4637 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4638 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004639- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4640- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4641 cursor is right of the screen.
46428 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4643 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4644
4645
4646Code size:
46478 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4648- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4649 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46508 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46518 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4652 it.
46537 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4654 left out.
46558 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4656 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046578 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004658
4659
4660Messages:
46618 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4662 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46638 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4664 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46658 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4666 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004667- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4668 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4669- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046708 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4671 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046729 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4673 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4674 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4675 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4676 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046778 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4678 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46798 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4680 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4681 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4682 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4683 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4684 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004685- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004686 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046878 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4688 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4689 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4690 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4691 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4692 error messages, printing text, etc.
46938 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4694 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4695 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4696
4697
4698Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004699- screen_line():
4700 - insert/delete character stuff.
4701 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4702- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4703 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4704- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4705 waiting for a character.
47068 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4707 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4708 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004709
4710Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020047118 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047126 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4713- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4714 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4715 windows.
47167 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4717 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4718 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4719- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4720 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4721 (Goldfarb)
4722- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4723 bound windows.
4724- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4725 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004726- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004727- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4728 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4729 of lines but not with a single line).
4730
4731
4732Autoconf:
47338 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
47348 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4735 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4736- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4737 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4738- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4739- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4740- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4741
4742
4743Perl interface:
47448 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047457 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47467 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47476 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4748
4749
4750Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047518 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4752 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047536 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4754 :libload internal-name libname
4755 :libunload internal-name
4756 :liblist
4757 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4758 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4759 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47606 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4761
4762
4763Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047649 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4765 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4766 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4767 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4768 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047698 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4770 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4771 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004772 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004773 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047747 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4775 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4776 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047778 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47788 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4779 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047807 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4781 window for each tag.
47827 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
47837 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4784 bottom" search message.
47857 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4786 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4787 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004788- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4789- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004790- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4791 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4792 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047937 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4794 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4795 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4796 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
47977 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4798 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4799 :tagargs clear
4800 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4801 matching).
48027 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4803 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4804 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4805 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
48067 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4807 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
48087 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4809 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4810 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004811
4812
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004813Win32 GUI:
48148 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4815 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048167 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4817 (Mike McCollister)
48188 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4819 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4820 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4821 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4822 common part of the path.
48238 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
48248 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4825 gettext and menus work.
48268 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4827 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004828 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004829 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
48308 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4831 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
48328 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4833 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
48347 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4835 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
48367 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
48377 <Esc> should close a dialog.
48387 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4839 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4840 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4841 prompts.
48427 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4843 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4844 the file added into an already running Vim.
48457 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4846 functions to find the window title.
4847
4848
4849GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020048508 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004851- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4852 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
48537 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48548 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48556 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48568 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4857 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48589 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48597 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48608 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4861 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48628 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4863 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4864 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48658 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4866 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48678 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4868 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4869 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4870 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048717 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48728 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4873 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048747 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4875 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4876 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048778 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48788 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004879 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048808 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48818 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48828 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4883 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4884 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
48857 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4886 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4887 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
48887 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4889 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
48907 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4891 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4892 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4893 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048947 Should support multi-column menus.
4895- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4896 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4897- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
48988 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
48996 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4900 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
49017 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
49027 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4903 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4904 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
49057 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
49068 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4907 name can be chosen free.
49087 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4909 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
49106 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4911 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4912 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4913 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4914 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4915 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4916 things.
49177 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4918 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049197 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004920 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004921- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4922 where it was started from?
49237 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4924
4925
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004926Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020049279 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4928 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004929- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049308 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4931 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4932 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4933 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
49348 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4935 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000049367 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4937 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4938 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4939 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049407 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049418 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4942 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049438 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4944 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4945 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049467 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4947 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4948 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049498 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4950 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4951 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049528 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4953 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049548 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049556 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4956 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049577 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049587 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004959 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4960 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4961 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049625 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4963 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4964 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49657 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4966 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4967 file.
49688 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4969 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4970 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004971- Add events to autocommands:
4972 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004973 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004974 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4975 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004976 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004977 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004978 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4979 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4980 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4981 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004982 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004983 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4984 the char.
4985 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4986 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4987 file from CVS).
4988 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4989 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4990 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4991 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4992 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4993 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004994 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4995 changes.
4996 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4997 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004998- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004999 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005000 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005001 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
5002 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
5003 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
5004 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
5005 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
5006
5007
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005008Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005009- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5010 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005011- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5012 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5013 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5014 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5015 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005016- Ideas from others:
5017 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5018 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5019 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5020 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5021 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5022 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5023 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5024 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5025 Uses Perl for C++.
5026 Uses ctags to find the info:
5027 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5028 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5029 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5030 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5031 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5032 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005033 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005034 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5035- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5036
5037
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005038Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005039- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050407 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5041 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050427 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5043 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5044 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050458 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5046 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50479 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5048 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5049 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050508 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5051 - ignore/match case
5052 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050538 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5054 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5055 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5056 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5057 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5058 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050598 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050607 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5061 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050628 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5063 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5064 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5065 Should work for C++ and Java.
5066 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50677 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50687 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5069 instead of words.
50708 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50718 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5072 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50738 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5074 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005075- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5076 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005077- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5078 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5079 wildcards in the file name)?
5080- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5081- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5082- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5083 be in another file).
5084- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5085- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5086- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5087 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5088- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5089- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5090- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005091- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5092
5093
5094Command line editing:
50957 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5096 line.
50978 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5098 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5099 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5100- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5101 lines wraps to start of line).
5102- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5103 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5104 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5105 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5106 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5107 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5108 cmdwin does now already.
5109 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5110 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5111 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5112 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5113 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5114 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5115 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5116 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5117 Problems:
5118 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5119 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5120 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5121 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5122 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5123 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5124 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5125 character in first column?
5126 - Implementation ideas:
5127 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5128 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5129 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5130 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5131 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5132 Mode.
5133
5134
5135Command line completion:
51368 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
51378 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5138 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51398 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5140 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051418 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5142 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051437 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5144 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005145- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5146- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5147 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051488 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5149 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51507 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5151 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5152- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5153 identifiers (Webb).
51548 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5155 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51567 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5157 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5158- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5159 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5160- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5161 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5162 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005163
5164
5165Command line history:
5166- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5167 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5168 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005169 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005170- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5171 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5172
5173
5174Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051759 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5176 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5177 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051788 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5179 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5180 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5181 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5182 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051838 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5184 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5185 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051867 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5187 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005188- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051897 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5190 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5191- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5192 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5193 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5194 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5195 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5196 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5197- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5198 Normal mode.
5199- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5200 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5201 are used.
5202- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5203- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5204- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5205
5206
5207'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052089 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5209 char * veryLongName =
5210 "very long string"
5211 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052128 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052138 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5214 long_type foo =
5215 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052168 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5217 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005218 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052198 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5220 func(
5221 new String[] {
5222 "asdf",
5223 "asdf"
5224 }
5225 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052268 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5227 (Chow Loong Jin)
5228 namespace {
5229 int
5230 func(int arg) {
5231 }
5232 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052336 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5234 func( arg1
5235 , arg2
5236 , arg3
5237 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000052387 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005239 func(
5240 int x) // indent like "(4"
5241 {
5242 if (a
5243 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052449 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5245 if (a)
5246 {
5247 if (b)
5248 {
5249 // {
5250 }
5251 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005252 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5253 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5254 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005255- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005256 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52577 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5258- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5259 line).
5260- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5261- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5262 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005263- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5264 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5265- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5266 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5267- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5268- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5269 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52708 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5271 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5272 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5273- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5274- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5275 lines start with "\item".
5276- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5277 /* here is a comment that
5278 is just autoindented, and
5279 nothing else */
5280- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52817 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5282 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5283 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005284 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005285
5286
5287Java:
52888 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5289 Odendahl?
52908 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5291 "[i" commands and friends.
5292- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5293 (Jason)
5294- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5295 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5296
5297
5298'comments':
52998 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5300 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5301 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5302 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005303 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5304 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053057 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5306 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
53077 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
53086 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5309 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5310 regexp is used.
53118 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5312 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5313
5314
5315Virtual edit:
53168 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053177 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5318
5319
5320Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053218 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053228 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053238 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005324 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053258 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5326 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005327 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5328 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053298 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053308 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5331 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053328 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5333 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5334 the end of the line or before a ".".
53357 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5336 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
53377 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5338 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053396 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53405 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5341 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5342 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5343 cursor is on.
5344
5345
5346Select mode:
53478 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5348 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53497 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005350 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053517 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5352 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5353 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5354 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5355 normal_cmd().
5356 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5357 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5358
5359
5360Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053618 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5362 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005363- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5364 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5365 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005366- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5367 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5368 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053698 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005370 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005371 where needed.
53727 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5373 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53747 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5375 of each selected line.
53768 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53778 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5378 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5379 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53808 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5381 Ben Godfrey)
53827 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5383 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
53847 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5385 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053867 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005387 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005388 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
53898 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5390 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
53917 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5392 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5393 option!
53947 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5395 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5396 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5397 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5398 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5399 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5400 without changing the column.
54016 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054027 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5403 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054046 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5405 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
54066 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054076 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005408 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005409 or other special character.
54106 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5411
5412
5413More advanced repeating commands:
5414- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005415- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005416- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005417 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5418 "y." will repeat last yank.
5419 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5420 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5421 and/or pick an older command.
5422- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5423
5424
5425Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054268 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5427 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5428 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
54298 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
54307 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5431 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054328 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5433 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
54348 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000054357 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054368 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5437 entering search strings.
54388 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5439 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5440 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054418 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5442 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054437 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054447 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5445 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054466 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5447 abbreviations are to be used.
5448- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5449 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5450 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005451- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5452 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5453 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5454 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5455 Or implicit:
5456 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005457- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5458 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5459 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005460- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5461 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5462- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5463 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54646 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5465 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5466 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5467 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005468- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5469 non-replace Insert mode?
5470- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005471- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5472- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5473 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5474- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005475 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005476- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5477 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5478- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5479- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5480 ":freekeys".
5481- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5482
5483
5484Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005485- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5486 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5487- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5488 folds when going to another line.
5489 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5490- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5491 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005492- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5493 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5494 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005495- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5496 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5497 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5498 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020054999 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5500 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005501
5502
5503Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055049 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000055058 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005506 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005507 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005508 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005509 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055109 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5511 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010055128 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5513 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000055148 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5515 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5516 Perl does it this way:
5517 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5518 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5519 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5520 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055218 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5522 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5523 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000055247 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5525 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000055268 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5527 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055287 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005529 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5530 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5531 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055327 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005533 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055347 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5535 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055368 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5537 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
55388 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5539 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055407 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005541 example.
55428 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5543 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5544- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5545 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5546 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5547 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055488 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5549 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5550 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55517 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5552 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055537 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5554 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055558 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5556 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055578 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5558 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055598 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5560 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5561 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5562 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005563- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5564 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005565- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5566 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5567- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5568 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5569 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5570 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055718 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5572 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005573- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5574 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055758 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5576 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5577 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005578- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5579 i ignore case
5580 I use case
5581 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5582 v use Vi regexp syntax
5583 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5584 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5585 Perl uses these too:
5586 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5587 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5588 o compile only once (Perl only)
5589 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5590 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5591 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5592 following command.
5593 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5594- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5595 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5596 for search string)?
55977 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5598 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5599- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5600 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5601- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5602 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5603- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5604- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005605 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005606 a for the next file in the argument list
5607 f for file in the buffer list
5608 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005609 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5610 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005611 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5612 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5613- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056147 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005615 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056167 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5617 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5618 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5619 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
56206 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5621 effects.
56227 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5623 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5624 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000056257 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005626 Also ":dselect".
5627
5628
5629Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056309 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5631 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5632 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056339 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5634 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020056358 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5636 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056378 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5638 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5639 timestamp?
5640 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5641 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005642- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5643 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005644- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5645 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5646 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56478 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5648 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5649 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5650 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56518 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5652 only remember the lines that really changed.
56537 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5654 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5655 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5656 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005657- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5658 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5659- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5660 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5661- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5662 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5663 [-99].
5664- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5665- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005666- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5667 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5668
5669
5670Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056717 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5672 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5673 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5674 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56758 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5676 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56778 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5678 inode too.
56797 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005680 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5681 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056827 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5683 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5684- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5685 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5686- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5687 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
56887 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5689 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
56907 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5691 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
56928 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056937 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5694 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056958 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5696 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5697 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005698
5699
5700Swap (.swp) files:
57018 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5702 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5703 there are short file name problems.
57048 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5705 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
57068 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
57078 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005708 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005709 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5710 file the same as the actual file?
5711 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057127 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5713 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
57147 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005715 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005716 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5717 enough room.
57187 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5719 or /var/preserve.
5720- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5721 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5722- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005723 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005724- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5725 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5726 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5727 cached list of which line is where.
5728
5729
5730Viminfo:
57317 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5732 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5733 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000057348 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5735 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5736 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057378 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5738 name. (Schild)
57398 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57408 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057418 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057428 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5743 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5744 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5745 this?
57467 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57477 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5748 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57496 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5750 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5751 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5752- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5753 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5754
5755
5756Modelines:
57578 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5758 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5759 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005760- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5761 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5762 'shiftwidth'.
5763- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5764 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005765- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5766 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5767 modeline setting.
5768- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5769 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5770- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5771 .cpp files.
5772- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5773 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5774- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5775 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5776
5777
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005778Sessions:
57798 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5780 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57817 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5782 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057838 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5784 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057858 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5786 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5787 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000057887 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5789 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000057907 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005791
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005792
5793Options:
57947 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5795 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057968 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5797 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5798 also be supported.
57998 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5800 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5801 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
58027 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005803
5804
5805External commands:
58068 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5807 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
58084 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5809 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5810 -f).
58114 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
58124 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5813 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
58144 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5815
5816
5817Multiple Windows:
58187 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
58198 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5820 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
58217 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5822 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5823 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000058247 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5825 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000058267 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5827 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058286 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5829 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005830 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005831 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
58327 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5833 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5834 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5835 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5836- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5837 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5838 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5839 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5840
5841
5842Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058438 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058448 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5845 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058468 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 +000058478 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5848 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58498 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5850 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5851 the mark was set.
58527 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5853 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5854 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5855 ":browse marks"?
58566 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058577 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5858 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58597 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5860 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58617 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5862 command).
58637 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5864 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5865 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5866 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58675 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5868 mappings.
58696 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5870 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5871 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5872
5873
5874Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058757 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005876 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005877- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5878 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058798 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058807 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5881 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5882
5883
5884Writing files:
5885- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5886 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5887 shortname conversion.
58888 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
58898 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5890 file.
58918 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5892 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5893 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058946 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5895 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58966 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5897 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58986 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5899 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059008 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005901 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
59027 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5903 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
59047 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5905 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5906 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5907 waiting for a character to be typed).
59088 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5909 line of the window, like "[time]".
5910 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5911 Automatic and/or with a command.
5912
5913
5914Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000059158 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5916 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059178 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005918 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5919- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5920- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
59218 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5922 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005923- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005924 :s///N substitutes N times.
5925- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5926 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5927 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
59287 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5929 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5930 last line column 5.
59315 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5932 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5933 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5934 (Stanislav Sitar)
5935
5936
5937Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059388 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59397 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59408 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5941 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5942 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005943- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5944- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5945 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5946- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5947- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5948
5949
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005950Argument list:
59516 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5952 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5953 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59546 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5955
5956
5957Registers:
59588 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059598 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5960 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5961 for every line.
59626 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5963 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5964 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5965- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5966 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5967- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5968 leader when line wraps?
5969- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5970 line in the range.
5971- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5972 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59738 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5974 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005975
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005976
5977Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059788 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059798 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059807 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59817 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5982
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005983Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059847 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5985 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5986 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5987 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5988 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5989 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5990 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005991 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059927 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5993 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059947 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5995 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059968 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5997 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059987 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5999 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
6000 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00006001- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00006002 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010060037 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
6004 window as a buffer-tab selection.
60058 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060067 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
6007 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
60088 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
6009 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060106 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060118 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6012 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6013 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6014 in this Vim.
60158 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006016 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060178 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6018 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6019 have it apply to the following command.
60208 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6021 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6022 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6023 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060247 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6025 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060267 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6027 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6028 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6029 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060306 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
60318 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
60329 Support ACLs on more systems.
60337 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6034 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060357 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6036 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6037 (truncated to fit in the space).
60387 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60398 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60408 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6041 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060427 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006043 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60447 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6045 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060467 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060477 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60487 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060498 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60508 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6051 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6052 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6053 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60548 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060558 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060568 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6057 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6058 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6059 does something like this. (Shah)
60607 Use growarray for replace stack.
60617 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6062 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60633 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060647 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6065 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060667 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6067 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006068- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6069- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6070- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6071- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60727 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6073 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6074- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6075 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006076- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006077- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6078 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6079- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6080 call "play newbeep.au").
6081- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6082 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6083 (Bhatt).
6084- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6085 blockwise registers).
6086- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6087 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6088- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6089 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6090 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6091 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006092- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060937 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6094 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6095- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6096 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6097 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6098 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6099 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000061008 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6101 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061028 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6103 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6104 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6105 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6106 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6107- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006108- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061097 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6110 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6111- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6112 not in column 1.
61136 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6114 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
61157 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6116- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006117- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006118 :redir #> bufname
6119 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006120- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6121 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006122- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6123 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6124 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
61256 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6126 console? (Klaus Hast)
6127- Add :delcr command:
6128 *:delcr*
6129 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6130 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6131 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6132 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6133 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006134 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006135- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6136- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6137 characters from 'isprint'.
6138- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6139- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6140 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6141- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6142 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6143 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6144- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6145- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6146 Nvi).
6147- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6148 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61497 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6150- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6151 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61526 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6153- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6154 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6155 macro).
6156- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006157- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6158 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6159- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61608 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006161- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6162- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6163- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6164 if it is not the first or last window.
6165- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6166 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61677 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6168 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6169 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6170- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6171- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006172 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006173 many percent down the windows).
6174- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6175 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6176 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006177 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006178- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6179 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6180- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6181 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6182- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6183- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6184- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6185 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061868 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6187 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6188 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6189 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6190 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006191- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6192 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6193- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006194 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6195- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006196 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6197 (Webb).
6198- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006199 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006200- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6201 hex codes like 0xff).
6202- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6203 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6204 the last TYPED command.
6205- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6206- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6207- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6208 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006209- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062108 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6211 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6212 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006213- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006214 trailing '.'.
6215- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6216 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6217 find_file_in_path().
6218- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6219 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6220- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6221- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6222 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6223- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006224 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006225- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6226 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6227 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006228- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6229- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6230- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6231 to the minimal size.
6232- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6233- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6234- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6235- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6236- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006237- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6238 entered)?
6239- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6240 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006241- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006242- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6243- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6244- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6245- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6246- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6247 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006248- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062498 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6250 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6251 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6252 or in octal.
62537 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6254 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006255- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006256 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6257- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6258- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6259 insert line command).
6260- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6261- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6262- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6263- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6264- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6265 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006266- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006267 yet.
6268- Implement 'redraw' option.
6269- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6270 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062717 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6272 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006273 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6274 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062758 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6276 do it.
6277- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6278- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6279 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6280- Add text justification option.
6281- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6282- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6283 off".
6284- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6285- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6286- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006287 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006288- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006289- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006290- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6291 commands.
6292- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6293- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6294- :table command (Webb)
6295- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006296- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6297- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6298- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6299- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6300- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6301 (Demirel).
6302- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6303- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6304 for use in macro's and the like.
6305- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006306 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006307- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006308 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006309- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006310 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006311 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6312- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6313 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006314- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006315 mkopttab to make option table?
6316- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6317 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6318- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6319 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006320- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006321 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6322- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6323 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006324- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000063258 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6326 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6327 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6328 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6329 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063308 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6331 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6332 (Netherton)
63336 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6334 space after "(", for example.
63355 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6336 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6337 (Servatius Brandt)
6338
6339
6340From Elvis:
6341- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6342- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006343- Search patterns:
6344 \@ match word under cursor.
6345 but do:
6346 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6347 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63488 ":window" command:
6349 :win + next window (up)
6350 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6351 :win - previous window (down)
6352 :win -- idem, wrapping
6353 :win nr to window number "nr"
6354 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63557 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6356 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6357
6358
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006359From xvi:
6360- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6361- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6362
6363
6364From vile:
6365- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6366- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6367 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6368
6369
6370Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006371- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6372 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006373 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006374 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6375 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006376- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6377 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6378- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6379 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6380 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6381 current layout mirrored.
6382- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6383- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6384 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6385- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6386- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6387 font in each top-level window.
6388- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6389- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6390- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6391- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6392 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006393- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6394 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6395- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6396 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63974 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6398 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6399 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6400 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006401 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006402 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6403 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6404- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6405 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6406 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6407
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006408vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006409vim: set fo+=n :