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Bram Moolenaarb2c2efa2005-12-13 20:09:08 +00001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Dec 13
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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30 *known-bugs*
31-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
32
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +000033ml_get error with specific vimrc and lots of plugins. (Tomi Mickelsson)
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034
Bram Moolenaarc64d13a2005-11-26 23:48:46 +000035Win32: preserve the hidden attribute of the viminfo file.
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Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +000037Add ":startgreplace" to do "gR", like ":startreplace" does "R".
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Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +000039Alt-mousekey is currently ignored. Use it for Visual/select block?
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Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +000041When 'delcombine' is set in Select mode before a character with a combining
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +000042char the combining char is deleted when it shouldn't. (Tony Mechelynck, Nov
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004327)
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Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +000045ccomplete:
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +000046- When an option is set: In completion mode and the user types (identifier)
47 characters, advance to the first match instead of removing the popup menu.
48 If there is no match remove the selection. (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000049- Complete the longest common match instead of the first match?
Bram Moolenaarb2c2efa2005-12-13 20:09:08 +000050 For all kinds of completions? Configurable?
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000051- !_TAG_FILE_FORMAT and it's ilk are listed in the global completions
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +000052- When completing something that is a structure, add the "." or "->".
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +000053- When a typedef or struct is local to a file only use it in that file?
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000054- Window resize when poup is displayed
55- page-up / page-down
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +000056
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +000057spelling:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000058- Use KEEPCASE instead of "KEP". It applies to the word including affixes
59 Hunspell also uses it.
60- Hunspell has NOSUGGEST flag (use for obscene words?)
61- Check out Hunspell 1.1.2.
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +000062- Look into hungarian dictionary:
63 http://magyarispell.sourceforge.net/rc3-beta2.zip
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000064- Support breakpoint character ยท 0xb7 and ignore it?
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000658 Alternate Dutch word list at www.nederlandsewoorden.nl (use script to
66 obtain). But new Myspell wordlist will come (Hagen)
67- Finding suggestions with sound folding is slow. Somehow store the
68 sound-folded words and link to the words it comes from?
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +000069- Also use the spelling dictionary for dictionary completion.
70- Have "zg" and "zw" report the file that was modified. (Marvin Renich)
71- Add a command like "zg" that selects one of the files 'spellfile'.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000072
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +000073Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
74":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
75gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
76global_event_filter() for GTK.
77
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000078In diff mode deleting lines is very slow. E.g., when diffing two .po files
79and then sourcing po/cleaup.vim.
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817 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on
82 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
83 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
84 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
85Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages. (2005
86Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +000087
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000088Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung):
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000089- selecting proportional font breaks display
Bram Moolenaare2ac10d2005-03-07 23:26:06 +000090- UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +000091- Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
Bram Moolenaaraf289d32005-10-12 21:01:44 +000092- Add default key mappings for the command key (Alan Schmitt)
93 use http://macvim.org/OSX/files/gvimrc
Bram Moolenaar784c6142005-10-11 20:34:58 +000094- With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
95 (Alan Schmitt)
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000096
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +000097Patch to add a few flags to search(). (Benji Fisher, Nov 29, doc update Dec 1)
98Also add search???() function that returns list with lnum and col.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000099
Bram Moolenaar58d98232005-07-23 22:25:46 +0000100Win32: Use the free downloadable compiler 7.1. Figure out how to do debugging
101(with Agide?) and describe it. (George Reilly)
Bram Moolenaarcaa0fcf2005-09-07 21:21:14 +0000102Try out using the free MS compiler and debugger, using Make_mvc.mak.
Bram Moolenaar6c0b44b2005-06-01 21:56:33 +0000103
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000104Win32: Check that installer puts menu items in "all users" dir when possible,
105not administrator dir.
106
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000107CTRL-X CTRL-L only completes from loaded buffers. Make it work for unloaded
108buffers too?
109
Bram Moolenaar8aff23a2005-08-19 20:40:30 +0000110Autoload:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000111- Add a Vim script in $VIMRUNTIME/tools that takes a file with a list of
112 script names and a help file and produces a script that can be sourced to
113 install the scripts in the user's directories.
114 Use findfile(), so that only file names need to be given:
115 script plugin/myscript.vim
116 script autoload/mylib.vim
117 script autoload/yourlib.vim
118 helpfile doc/myscript.txt
119 For the "helpfile" item ":helptags" is run.
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +0000120
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000121Add ":smap", Select mode mapping? Otherwise: ":sunmap", so that Visual mode
122mappings for normal keys can be removed from Select mode.
Bram Moolenaard5cdbeb2005-10-10 20:59:28 +0000123
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +0000124When expanding on the command line, recognize shell commands, such as ":!cmd".
125Complete command names by searching in $PATH. When completing file names
126escape special characters ";&<>(){}". (Adri Verhoef)
127
Bram Moolenaar63a121b2005-12-11 21:36:39 +0000128Are there more commands where v:swapcommand can be set to something useful?
129
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000130Awaiting response:
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000131- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
132 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar58d98232005-07-23 22:25:46 +0000133- mblen(NULL, 0) also in Vim 6.3?
Bram Moolenaarb0158592005-07-22 21:54:43 +0000134
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000135
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000136PLANNED FOR VERSION 7.0:
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000137
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000138- Omni completion: Understands the programming language and finds matches
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000139 that make sense. Esp. members of classes/structs.
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141 It's not much different from other Insert-mode completion, use the same
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000142 mechanism. Use CTRL-X CTRL-O and 'omnifunc'. Set 'omnifunc' in the
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000143 filetype plugin, define the function in the autoload directory.
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000144
145 Separately develop the completion logic and the UI. When adding UI stuff
146 make it work for all completion methods.
147
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000148 UI:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000149 - Complete longest common string first, like 'wildmode' "longest:full".
150 - Add an "auto" mode: after typing a character (or string) completion is
151 done for the longest common string. plugin defines the possible
152 characters/strings. (Martin Stubenschrott)
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +0000153 - GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000154 - When using tags, show match in preview window (function prototype,
155 struct member, etc.).
156 Or use one window for matches, another for context/info (Doug Kearns,
157 2005 Sep 13)
158 - Ideas on: http://www.wholetomato.com/
159
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000160
161 Completion logic:
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000162 Use runtime/autoload/{filetype}complete.vim files.
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Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000164 In function arguments suggest variables of expected type.
Bram Moolenaardcca87b2005-09-10 19:24:59 +0000165 Tags file has "signature" field.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000166
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000167 List of completions is a Dictionary with items:
168 complist[0]['text'] = completion text
169 complist[0]['type'] = type of completion (e.g. function, var, arg)
170 complist[0]['help'] = help text (e.g. function declaration)
171 complist[0]['helpfunc'] = function that shows help text
172 etc.
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000173
Bram Moolenaarf75a9632005-09-13 21:20:47 +0000174 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include the "." and "->" to restrict the
175 number of possible matches? (Flemming Madsen)
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177 In general: Besides completion, figure out the type of a variable
178 and use it for information.
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Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000180 Ideas from others:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000181 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000182 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000183 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000184 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
185 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
186 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
Bram Moolenaare344bea2005-09-01 20:46:49 +0000187 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
188 Uses Perl for C++.
189 Uses ctags to find the info:
190 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
191
Bram Moolenaarae5bce12005-08-15 21:41:48 +0000192 UI: popup menu with list of alternatives, icon to indicate type
193 optional popup window with info about selected alternative
194 Unrelated settings are changed (e.g. 'mousemodel').
195
Bram Moolenaarb982ca52005-03-28 21:02:15 +0000196 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000197 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
198 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000199 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000200 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000201 Emads: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
202 Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
203 - It's not possible to have one solution for all languages. Design an
204 interface for completion plugins. The matches can be done in a
205 Vim-script list.
206 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
207 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
208 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
209 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
210 - Use ctags for other languages. Writing a file could trigger running
211 ctags, merging the tags of the changed file.
212 "Visual Assist" http://www.wholetomato.com/products:
213 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
214
Bram Moolenaar572cb562005-08-05 21:35:02 +0000215 - Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
Bram Moolenaar4be06f92005-07-29 22:36:03 +0000216
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000217- UNDO TREE: keep all states of the text, don't delete undo info.
218 When making a change, instead of clearing any future undo (thus redo)
219 info, make a new branch.
220 To navigate through the undo tree number the states of the text
221 sequentially and make it possible to go through the tree in that order.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000222 Use "g+++" to go forward, "g---" to go backward. Can mix - and +.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000223 Could also use timestamps (to show the time and/or jump to a state five
224 minutes ago). (David Schweikert)
225 To go from one state to another: backtrack to a common state, then forward
226 again.
227 Only difficult thing: When going back in time, how to find the previous
228 text state in the tree?
229 Show the list of changes in a window to be able to select a version?
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000230 Also: See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
231 undo info. Needed for when an external tool changes the file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000232- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000233 Use timestamps, so that a version a certain time ago can be found and info
234 before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum time to
235 keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. For the file use dot and
236 extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002377 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000238 split windows.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000239 In Emacs these are called frames. Could also call them "pages".
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000240 Use the name of the first buffer in the tab (ignoring the help window,
241 unless it's the only one). Add a number for the window count.
242 First make it work on the console. Use a line of text with highlighting.
243 Then add GUI Tabs for some systems.
244 Patch for GTK 1.2 passed on by Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000245 Simple patch for GTK by Luis M (nov 7).
Bram Moolenaar87e25fd2005-07-27 21:13:01 +0000246 Don't forget to provide an "X" to close a tab.
247 Implementation: keep the list of windows as-is. When switching to another
248 tab make the buffers in the current windows hidden, save the window
249 layout, buildup the other window layout and fill with buffers.
250 Need to be able to search the windows in inactive tabs, e.g. for the
251 quickfix window.
252 Use "1gt" - "99gt" to switch to a tab?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000253- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
254 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow().
255 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget.
256- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
257 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000258- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
259 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
260 http://clewn.sf.net.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +0000261 And the idevim plugin/script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000262 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
263 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
264 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
265 other window.
266 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
267 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
268 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
269 in terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000270- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
271 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
272 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
273 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000274 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +0000275 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000276- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
277 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
278 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000279- Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
280 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
281 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00002828 Support four composing/combining characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron)
283 Add the 'maxcombining' option to set the nr. of composing characters.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000284 At the same time support more colors (use two bytes when necessary).
Bram Moolenaarcafda4f2005-09-06 19:25:11 +00002858 Searching for a composing character by itself should work. Perhaps "."
286 with a composing char should work too.
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000287- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical",
288 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21)
289- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed
290 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000291- VimResized autocmd event: When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH)
292 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24.
293 It's not clear that this doesn't cause problems when the executed
294 commands do something like changing 'lines'. Esp. because the
295 screen has not yet been allocated with the new size.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000296- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
297 the Vim shell project can help: http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000298- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
Bram Moolenaar943d2b52005-12-02 00:50:49 +0000299 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +0000300 characters.
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +0000301- Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, 2004 June 27)
302 Other patch from Da Woon Jung, 2005 Jan 16.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +00003038 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
304 New patch 2004 Jun 16
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +00003059 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option,
306 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text.
307 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for
308 underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group
309 instead.
310 Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current
311 line.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00003127 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts?
313 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line).
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000314- When using 'incsearch" CTRL-R CTRL-W gets the word under the cursor, but
315 the part that already matched is doubled then. Remove the part of the
316 word that would be doubled. Make it work line CTRL-N in Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000317- Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000318- "onemore" flag in 'virtualedit': move cursor past end of line. Patch by
319 Mattias Flodin (2004 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000320- In a :s command multi-byte characters should also be upper/lower cased
321 with \u, \U, etc.
Bram Moolenaarb0158592005-07-22 21:54:43 +00003228 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
323 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
324 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
325 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000326
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +0000327Adjust src/main.aap for installing manpages like in Makefile.
328
Bram Moolenaar78984f52005-08-01 07:19:10 +0000329When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back to
330latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
331 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
332Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
333Also: command to search for illegal utf-8 byte sequence?
334
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +0000335Also generate the .pdb file that can be used to generate a useful crash report
336on MS-Windows. (George Reilly)
337
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000338Add strtol() to avoid the problems with leading zero causing octal conversion.
339
340Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +0000341Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +0000342
343Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be several.
344Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
345
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +0000346Win32: Patch for Korean IME. (Yusung, 2005 March 21)
347
Bram Moolenaar520470a2005-06-16 21:59:56 +0000348When "= evaluation results in a List, use it as a sequence of lines.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +0000349
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000350Support ":set syntax=cpp.doxygen"? Suggested patch by Michael Geddes (9 Aug
3512004). Should also work for 'filetype'.
352
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000353For manipulating buffers without opening a new window, support Virtual
354windows. Example:
355 :virtwin let l = GetBufLine(4, 10)
356 :fun GetBufLine(bufnr, lnum)
357 : exe "buffer " . a:bufnr
358 : return getline(lnum)
359 :endfun
360The getline() and setline() functions could work for other buffers, using a
361Virtual window.
362A Virtual window only exists for one command. There can be several (for
363nested commands). The window works as if it comes after the last window, size
364is the Vim window size, but it's never displayed.
365
366Win32: In the generated batch files, use $VIMRUNTIME if it's set. Examples by
367Mathias Michaelis (2004 Sep 6)
368Also place vimtutor.bat in %windir%?
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000369
Bram Moolenaar241a8aa2005-12-06 20:04:44 +0000370Add gui_mch_browsedir() for Motif, Mac OS/X.
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000371
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +0000372Add extra list of file locations. A bit like the quickfix list, but there is
373one per window. Can be used with:
374 :ltag list of matching tags, like :tselect
375Commands to use the location list:
376 :lnext next location
377 :lprevious :lNext previous location
378 :lnfile location in next file
379 :lNfile :lpfile location in previous file
380 :lrewind :lfirst first location
381 :llast last location
382 :ll [N] go to location N (current one if N omitted)
383 :lwindow open window with locations (separate from quickfix window)
384 :lopen open window with locations
385 :lclose close window with locations
386 :llist list locations
387 :lfile read locations from file using 'errorformat'
388 :lgetfile idem, don't jump to first one
389 :lbuffer idem, from current buffer.
390
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000391HTML indenting can be slow, find out why. Any way to do some kind of
Bram Moolenaarb2956cd2005-01-27 14:42:53 +0000392profiling for Vim script? At least add a function to get the current time in
393usec. reltime([start, [end]])
394 reltime().sec == seconds, reltime().usec = microseconds
395 reltime(start) current time relative to [start]
396 echo timestring(reltime(start), 3) (3 is nr of digits after dot)
397 reltime(start, end) difference between start and end
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +0000398Real Profiling:
399 - :profile start /tmp/somefile (append if exists)
400 - :profile pause
401 - :profile resume
402 - :profile stop
403 - per function line
404 - self, Vim and total time (incl system time)
405 - dump results in file on exit or when stopped.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000406
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +0000407Add more tests for all new functionality in Vim 7. Especially new functions.
408
Bram Moolenaarf1ab3802005-01-15 22:17:32 +0000409Updated Ruby interface. (Ryan Paul)
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000410
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000411Awaiting updated patches:
412 --- awaiting updated patch ---
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000413 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
414 Aric Blumer has a patch for this.
415 He will update the patch for 6.3.
416 Autocommands:
417 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
418 Update 2004 Sep 6.
419 How does this work? Missing comments.
420 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
421 Update 2004 Sep 10
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000422 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
423 Search in 'runtimepath'?
424 More docs about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000425 How to get the messages into the .po files?
426 --- did not respond (yet) --
427 - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
428 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31)
429 Asked for improvements 2004 Dec 20.
430 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible).
431 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last
432 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000433 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
434 (28 feb 2002).
435 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
436 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
437 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
438 for multi-byte characters.
439 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
440 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
441 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
442 been given values.
443 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
444 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
445 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors .
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +0000446 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +0000447 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000448 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +0000449 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000450 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
451 8 Add functions:
452 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
453 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
454 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
455 (2003 May 13)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000456 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
457 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaar231334e2005-07-25 20:46:57 +0000458 7 Make globpath() also work with upwards search. (Brian Medley)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000459 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
460 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
461 - Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
462 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000463 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
464 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
465 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +0000466 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000467 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003).
468 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
469 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
470 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
471 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
472 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000473 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
474 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
475 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
476 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
477 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
478 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
479 incomplete patch Mar 18)
480 - Set user variables to the names of the actually used user vimrc file,
481 the first directory looked for user plugins/syntax files.
482 $MYVIMRC for .vimrc, $MYGVIMRC for .gvimrc, $MYRUNTIME/plugin for
483 runtime files?
484 Also: when the environment variable exists, use it. If it doesn't
485 exist, set it. Requires good names: $VIM_USER_VIMRC $VIM_USER_DIR
486 - The Replace dialog takes "\r" literal, unless "replace all" is used.
487 Need to escape backslashes.
488 Win32: the text to replace with isn't remembered.
489 - For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
490 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000491
Bram Moolenaar4ad237d2005-03-11 22:49:40 +0000492Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
493
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +0000494Check if file explorer can handle directory names and links with a single
495quote. (Nieko Maatjes, 2005 Jan 4)
496
497
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000498Vi incompatibility:
4998 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
500 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
501 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
502 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
503 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
504 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005058 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
506 make Vim exit.
5077 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
508 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
509 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
5108 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
511 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
512 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
5136 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
514 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
515 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
5168 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
517 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
518 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
519 names in one buffer???
520 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
521 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
522 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
5237 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
524 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
525 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +0000526 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
527 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005287 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
529 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
5307 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
5317 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
5327 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
533 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
5347 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
535 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
536 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
537 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
5387 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
5397 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
5407 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
541 to the match with the tag? Option?
5427 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
5437 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
544 (Sayre).
5457 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
546 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005477 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
548 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
549 match. Nvi can do it too.
5507 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
551 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
552 line 1\ line 2\\
553 line 2\ line 3\\
554 . line4/
5556 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
556 the way the shell is started?
5576 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
558 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
559
560
561GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2):
5628 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops
563 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL
564 pointer if the menu was never displayed.
5658 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a
566 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also
567 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies
568 the minimal window width?
5698 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can
570 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar)
5718 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by
572 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes.
573
574GTK+ GUI known bugs:
5758 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
576 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
577 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +00005788 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
579 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
580 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005819 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
582 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
583 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
584 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000585
586Win32 GUI known bugs:
5878 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
588 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
5898 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
590 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
591 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
5928 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
593 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
5947 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
595 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
596 "lucida_console:h8").
5976 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
598 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00005998 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
600 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
601 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006027 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
603 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
604 to use an opaque background in most places?
6058 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
606 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
607 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
6088 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
609 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
610 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
6117 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
612 2004 May 9)
6138 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
614 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
615 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
616 MS-Windows 98?
617 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
618 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
619 file: Window moves with the cursor!
620 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
6218 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to
622 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006238 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
624 appear. (Sami Salonen)
6258 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo)
6268 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
627 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
628 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
629 doesn't work properly.
6308 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
631 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
632 appears in the right position. (Webb)
6339 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
634 button doesn't give popup menu.
635 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
636 selection.
637 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
638 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
639 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
6408 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
641 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
642 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
643 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
6448 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
645 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
646 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006477 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
648 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
649 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
6507 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
651 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +0000652 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006537 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
654 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
6557 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
656 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
6576 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
6588 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
659 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
660 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
6618 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
662 know which keyboard is being used?
6637 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
664 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
665 area (Koloseike).
6668 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
667 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
668 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
669 the font name).
670
671
672Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006736 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
674 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
675 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
676 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
677 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006789 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
679 required and it's missing?
6808 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
681 wrong.
6829 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
683 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006849 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000685 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
686 flag.
6878 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
688 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
689 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
6908 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
6916 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
692 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
693 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
694 the tooltips work though...
6957 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
696 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
6978 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
698 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
699 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
700
701
702Athena GUI:
7039 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
704 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
705 through files.
7067 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
707 read long file names. (Schroeder)
7084 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
709 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
710 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
711 problem during a refresh.
7125 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
713 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
714 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
715 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
716 colors as it should.
717 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
718 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
719
720
721Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00007227 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
723 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00007248 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
725 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
726 (Phillipps)
727
728
729GUI:
7309 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
731 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
7329 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +0000733 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000734 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
7359 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
736 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
7378 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
738 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
7398 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
740 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
741 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
7428 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
743 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
744 of where it is processing the output.
745 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
7468 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
747 doesn't work.
7488 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
7498 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00007508 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
751 browse().
7528 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
753 use that code? Or use console dialog.
7548 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
755 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00007567 More features in the find/replace dialog:
757 - regexp on/off
758 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
759 when all buffers/directory is used:
760 - filter for file name
761 when directory is used:
762 - subdirectory on/off
763 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00007648 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
765 to avoid problems.
7668 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
767 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
768 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
7698 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
770 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
771 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
7728 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
773 up. Set erase character somehow?
7748 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
775 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
776 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
777 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
7788 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
7797 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
780 visible.
7817 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
782 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
7837 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
784 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
7858 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
786 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
7878 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
788 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
789 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
790 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
791- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
7924 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
793 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
794 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
795
796
797MSDOS/DJGPP:
7989 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
799 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
800 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
8018 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
802 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
8039 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
804 code and reduce static data.
8059 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
806 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
807 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
808 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
8099 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
810 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
811 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
812 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
813 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
814 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
815 Make this work like in Win32 console.
816 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
817 key code. Use a translation table?
8189 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
819 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
8208 Use DJGPP 2.03.
8218 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
822 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
8238 setlocale() is bogus.
8248 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
825 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
826 Windows 95 system!
8278 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00008287 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000829 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
8307 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
831 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
832 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
8338 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
834 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
8357 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
836 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
837 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
838 "[New file]".
8397 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
840 that is supported?
8418 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
8428 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
843 Briscoe)
844
845
846MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
8478 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
848 gen_expand_wildcards().
8498 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
850 Wagner.
8518 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
8528 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
853 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00008548 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
855 a good fallback, thus use:
856 $HOME
857 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
858 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
859 $USERPROFILE
860 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
861 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
862 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
863 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008648 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
865 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
8668 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
867 Should work like in the GUI version.
8688 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
869 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
8708 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
871 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
8728 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
873 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
874 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008758 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
876 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
877 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
878
879
880Windows 95:
8818 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file
882 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
883 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
8848 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
885 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
886
887
888Win32 console:
8899 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
890 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
891 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
892 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
893 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
894 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
895 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
896 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
897 and the file is not saved.
898 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
899 long name.
9008 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
901 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
9027 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
903 besides the console.
9048 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
9059 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
906 <C-S-i>?
9079 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
908 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
9098 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
910 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009117 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
912 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
913 exiting.
914
915
916Amiga:
9178 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
918 sequences.
9199 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
920 backslashes in result.
9218 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
922 all options, using white space separation.
923
924
925Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00009267 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
927 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
928 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009297 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
930 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
931 (Jack)
932 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
9338 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
934 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
9358 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009369 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
937 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
9388 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
9398 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
9408 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
9418 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
9429 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
943 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
9449 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
945 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
9469 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
947 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
9489 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
9498 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
9508 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
951
952
953"Small" problems:
9548 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
955 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
956 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000957 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009589 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
959 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though
960 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to
961 check for the buffer to be unmodified.
9628 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
963 error number, it's not a regular error message.
9647 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
965 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
9668 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
967 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
968 for redirection.
9697 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local
970 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses
971 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009727 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
973 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009748 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
975 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
976 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
977 using the horizontal scrollbar.
9787 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
979 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
980 invocations belong together.
9818 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
982 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
9838 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
984 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
985 UnxUtils.zip archive.
986 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
987 Briscoe says it's not as good.
9888 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009898 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
990 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
9917 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
992 use "~/" when possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009937 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
994 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
995 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
996 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
9978 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
998 defined.
9997 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
1000 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
1001 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
10027 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
1003 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
1004 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
10057 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
1006 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
10077 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown)
10087 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
1009 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
10109 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001011 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001012 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely)
10139 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
1014 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
1015 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
1016 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
1017 script can be called.
10188 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
1019 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
1020 works.
10219 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use
1022 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained
1023 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002.
10248 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
1025 CTRL-C.
10267 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
1027 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
1028 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
1029 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
1030 won't work for GTK anyway.
10318 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
1032 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000010338 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001034 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
1035 configurable?
10368 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
10379 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
1038 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
1039 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
10408 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a
1041 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz)
10428 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
1043 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
10448 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
1045 always written, even when the original file already exists.
10467 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
1047 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
10489 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
1049 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
1050 written.
10519 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an
1052 error number.
10537 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000010548 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
1055 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
1056 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
10578 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
1058 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
10599 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
1060 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
1061 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
1062 one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000010637 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
1064 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000010657 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
1066 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
1067 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
1068 direction, not horizontally?
10698 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a
1070 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long.
10718 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001072 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
1073 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
1074 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
1075 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001076 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
1077 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001078 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001079 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break.
1080 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
1081 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
1082 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
1083 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
1084 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
10858 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
1086 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
10879 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
1088 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
1089 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000010908 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
1091 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
10928 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
1093 in lines that don't extend into the block?
10948 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
1095 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
1096 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
10978 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
1098 'linebreak'.
10998 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
1100 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
1101 (Helmut Stiegler)
11028 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends
1103 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler)
11049 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
1105 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
1106 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
1107 'magic' in history. (Margo)
11089 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
1109 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
11109 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
1111 isn't updated).
11129 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
11139 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
1114 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
1115 cause another redraw, etc.
11168 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
1117 must escape special characters in the pattern.
11188 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
1119 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
1120 ":w!!" for that.
1121 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
1122 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00001123 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011247 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
1125 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
1126 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
1127 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
1128 clipboard)
11297 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
1130 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
1131 Waggoner)
11328 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
1133 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
1134 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000011356 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
1136 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
1137 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011388 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
1139 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
11408 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
1141 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
1142 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
11438 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
1144 (e.g., ":w").
11458 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
1146 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
11478 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
1148 for ">>".
11498 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
1150 script in do_cmdline().
11518 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
1152 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
1153 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
1154 changes.
11558 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
1156 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
11578 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
1158 check for file marks. This can be slow.
11597 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
1160 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
1161 needed.
1162 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
11638 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
1164 to skip catch_signals()?
11659 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
1166 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
1167 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
1168 text?
11698 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
1170 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
11718 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
1172 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
11739 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
1174 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
1175 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
1176 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
1177 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
11787 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
1179 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
1180 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
1181 in the list?
11828 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
1183 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
1184 instead of on button down.
11858 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
11869 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
1187 reaching the end of the available buffer.
11888 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
1189 character is typed.
11908 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
1191 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
11928 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
1193 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
11948 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
1195 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
1196 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
1197 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
1198 cygwin bash.
11997 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
1200 Remember flags for backreferences.
12017 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
1202 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
12037 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
1204 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
12058 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
1206 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
12077 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
1208 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012097 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
1210 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
1211 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
12127 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
1213 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
12148 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
1215 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
1216 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
12177 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
1218 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001219
1220
1221I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
12229 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
1223 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
1224 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001225
1226
1227Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00001228- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
1229 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00001230 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00001231 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
1232 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
1233 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001234- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
1235 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
1236 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
1237 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
1238 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
1239- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
1240 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
1241 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
1242- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
1243 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
1244- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
1245 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
1246 character gets the highlighting.
1247- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
1248 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
1249- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
1250 (Jennings)
1251- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
1252- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
1253 errors. How do we get the rest?
1254- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001255- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001256 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
1257- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
1258 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
1259 first?
1260- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
1261 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
1262- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
1263 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
1264 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
1265- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
1266 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
1267 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
1268 (Benzinger).
1269- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
1270 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
1271 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
1272- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
1273 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
1274- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
1275 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
1276- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
1277 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
1278 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
1279 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
1280 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
1281 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
1282- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
1283 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
1284 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
1285- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
1286 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
1287 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
1288- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
1289 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
1290- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
1291 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
1292- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
1293 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1294- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
1295 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
1296- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
1297 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
1298 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
1299 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
1300 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
1301- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
1302 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
1303 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
1304- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
1305 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
1306 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001307- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
1308 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 +00001309- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
1310 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
1311 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
1312 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
1313 in the vimrc file to be lost.
1314- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
1315 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
1316
1317--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
1318 *extensions-improvements*
1319
1320Documentation:
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000013218 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
1322 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000013238 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
1324 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013258 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013267 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
13279 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
1328 - change to cursor position and curswant
1329 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
1330 - how it works for folded lines
1331 - how it works with multi-byte characters
13329 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
1333 work too.
13348 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
1335 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
1336 text.
13378 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
13387 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
1339 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
13407 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
1341 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
1342- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
1343
1344
1345Help:
1346- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
1347 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
1348- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
1349 to the other matches.
1350- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
1351- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
1352- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
1353 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
1354 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
1355 default contents.
1356- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
1357 height for the help window (and other windows).
1358- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
1359- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
1360- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
1361
1362
1363User Friendlier:
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +000013648 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1365 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013668 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
1367 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
1368 Briscoe)
13698 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
13708 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
1371 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
1372 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
13738 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
1374 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
1375- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
1376 ":mkplugin <file>"?
13778 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
1378 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
1379 'runtimepath'.
1380 " Vim plugin
1381 <main plugin code>
1382 " >>> plugin help start <<<
1383 <plugin docs>
1384- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
13859 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
1386 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
1387 item?).
1388 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013898 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
13907 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000013917 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
1392 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
1393 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001394
1395
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00001396Spell checking:
13979 Work together with OpenOffice.org to update the wordlists. (Adri Verhoef,
1398 Aad Nales) Setup vim-spell maillist?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00001399- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDMAX OR nr of
1400 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
1401- COMPOUNDMAX -> COMPOUNDWORDMAX?
1402- Support flags on a suffix. Used for second level affixes. The flags may
1403 also be used for compounding. Default is an OR mechanism with the flags
1404 of the word. Adding "compset" on the affixes means the compound flags of
1405 the word are not used. Instead of "SFX a 0 add/FLAGS ." we could use "SFX
1406 a 0 add . /FLAGS" (or support both).
1407- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or use "needcomp" after affix?
1408- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
1409 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
1410- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00001411 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00001412 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
1413 in the affix file separately.
1414 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
1415 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDMAX to a reasonable value.
1416 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
1417 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
1418 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
1419- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
1420 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
1421 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
1422 specific prefixes with suffixes.
1423 Alternative:
1424 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
1425 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
1426 affix which is required.
1427- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
1428 COMPOUNDMAX.
1429- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
1430 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
1431 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
1432- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore morphological fields after word and
1433 affix.
1434- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
1435 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
1436- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000014378 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
1438 syntax items (to add @Spell).
1439 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
1440 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
14418 Install spell files with src/main.aap.
1442- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
1443 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
1444 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
1445 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
14468 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
14478 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
1448 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000014497 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
14508 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
1451 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
1452 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
1453 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00001454
1455
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001456Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014578 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
1458 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
1459 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00001460 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
1461 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014627 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
1463 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
1464 location.
1465
1466
1467Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00001468 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
1469 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000014708 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014718 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level.
1472 (Noel Henson)
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000014737 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014748 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
1475 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
1476 user aware of this?
14778 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
1478 commands skip over a closed fold.
14798 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
14808 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014817 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001482- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
1483 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
1484 missing line goes unnoticed.
1485 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001486- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
1487 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
1488 smoother?
1489- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
1490 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
1491- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
1492- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001493 Or is the conceal patch from Vince Negri a more generic solution?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001494- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to
1495 implement this?
1496- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
1497 cursor.
1498- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001499- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000015008 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001501 searches.
1502
1503
1504Multi-byte characters:
15059 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
1506 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
1507 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
1508 byte).
15098 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
1510 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
1511 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
1512 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
1513 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
1514 item.
15158 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001516 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
1517 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015188 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
1519 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001520 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001521 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015228 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
1523 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
15247 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
1525 so that the user can fix the problem.
15268 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
1527 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015289 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
15298 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015308 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
15318 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015328 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2.
15337 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
15348 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
15358 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
15368 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
1537 characters.
15388 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
15398 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
1540 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
15417 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
1542 'display' option to specify this.
15437 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
1544 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
1545- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
1546 fontselector somehow.
1547- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
1548 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
1549- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
1550 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
1551- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
1552 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
1553 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
1554 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
1555 if a font exists?
1556- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +00001557 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001558- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
1559 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
15607 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
1561 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
1562- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00001563- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
1564 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
1565 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
1566 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001567- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and
1568 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard.
1569- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
1570 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
1571 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
1572- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
1573 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
1574 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
1575 But it's very complicated...
1576
1577
1578Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000015797 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001580- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
1581- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
1582 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001583- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
1584 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001585- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
1586- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
1587 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001588- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support
1589 different 'encoding' values somehow.
1590- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
1591 units as for the margins.
1592- Support right-to-left text?
15938 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
1594 color.
1595
1596
1597Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015988 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
1599 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
16008 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
1601 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
16028 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
1603 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
16048 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
1605 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
1606 ":wq file".
16078 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
16089 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
1609 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016107 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
1611 Search highlighting.
16128 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
1613 change this for each release.
16148 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
1615 pattern, but not in the body.
16168 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
1617 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
1618 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016198 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
16208 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
1621 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
1622 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
1623 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
16248 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
1625 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
16268 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
1627 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
1628 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one.
16298 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
16308 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
1631 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
1632 used.
16338 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
1634 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
16358 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
1636 re-insert the [] if possible.
16378 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
1638 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000016398 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
1640 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
1641 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
1642 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
1643 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016448 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
1645 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
16468 Support for deleting syntax items:
1647 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
1648 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
1649 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
16508 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
1651 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
1652 a '<'. (Fleiner)
16537 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
1654 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
1655 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
16567 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
1657 detected.
16588 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001659 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016608 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
1661 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016628 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
16638 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
16647 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
1665 ":mkvimrc".
16668 Improve c.vim:
1667 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
1668 "c_strict_ansi".
1669 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
16708 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
1671 current line while in Insert mode.
16728 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
1673 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
16748 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
1675 display position.
16768 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
1677 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
1678 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
16798 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
1680 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
1681 highlighting starts.
16827 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
1683 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
1684 E.g. for this html:
1685 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
16867 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
1687 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
1688 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
16897 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
16907 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
1691 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016927 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'.
16938 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
16948 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
16958 Add more command line completion for :sign.
16967 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
1697 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
1698 completion?
16998 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
1700 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
17017 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
1702 select one of the sets.
17038 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
1704 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
1705 2, etc.
17068 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
1707 highlighting (for "." command).
17088 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
1709 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
17108 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
17117 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
1712 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
17136 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
1714 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
1715- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
1716 when extending an already existing syntax file.
1717- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001718- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
1719 (for comment blocks).
1720- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
1721 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
1722 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
1723 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
1724 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
1725 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
1726 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
1727 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
1728 (Campbell)
1729 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
1730 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
17317 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
1732 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
17337 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
1734 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
1735 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
17367 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
1737 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
1738 messages. And external commands?
17398 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
1740 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
17417 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
1742 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
1743
1744
1745Built-in script language:
17468 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
1747 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017488 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for
1749 'shellslash', for example.
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001750- Add "{range}source": execute lines from a buffer.
1751 Alternative: Allow range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command.
1752 (Webb)
1753 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017548 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
17558 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
1756 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
1757 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
1758 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
1759 nested packages?
1760 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
1761 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
1762 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000017637 Add the markclear() function to delete a mark in another buffer. Charles
1764 Campbell (2004 Jan 9)
1765 http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch
1766 Implement setmark(markname, lnum [, col [, filename]]) instead?
1767 When "lnum" is zero delete the mark.
1768 When "filename" has no wildcards and there is no matching buffer, add
1769 the buffer (unlisted).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017707 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
1771 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
1772 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
1773 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
1774 autocommand.
1775 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
1776 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
1777 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
1778 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017797 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
1780 signs and/or 'number'.
17818 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001782 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
1783 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
1784 3 2002
1785 Only add this when also implemented for
1786 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
1787 be used.
1788 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001789 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
1790 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
1791 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
1792 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
1793 File.Open..." argument.
1794 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
1795 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
1796 with properties instead.
1797 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
1798 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
1799 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001800 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001801 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001802 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001803 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00001804 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001805 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
1806 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
1807 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001808 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001809 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
1810 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001811 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
1812 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
1813 to allow the library to execute a command or
1814 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018157 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
1816 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
18178 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
1818 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
18198 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0?
18208 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
18218 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has
1822 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time.
18237 Add optional arguments to user functions:
1824 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
18256 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
18268 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore.
18278 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
1828 option or environment variable.
18298 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
18307 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the
1831 stack available (separated with '\n').
18328 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
1833 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
18348 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
18358 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
1836 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
1837 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
1838 charwise({expr}).
18397 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
1840 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
1841 buffer for this?
1842 result = scratch(string, command)
1843 result = apply(string, command)
1844 result = execute(string, command)
1845 "command" would use <> notation.
1846 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
18477 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
18487 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
1849 option for the search path. (Sekera)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001850
1851
1852Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000018536 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
1854 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
1855 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
1856 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
1857 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
1858 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
1859 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001860
1861
1862Performance:
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +000018637 For strings up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list itself as a
1864 character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018658 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to
1866 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed?
18678 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
18689 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
18698 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
18707 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
1871 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
18728 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
1873 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
1874 when starting up in a color terminal.
18758 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
1876 Win16.
18779 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a
1878 redraw.
18798 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
1880 function be improved?
18818 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
1882 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
1883 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
1884 this be improved?
18858 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
1886 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000018877 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
1888 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018897 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
1890 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
18917 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
1892 lot of abbreviations).
18937 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
18947 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
1895 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
1896 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
1897 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
1898 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
1899 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
1900 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
19018 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
1902 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
1903 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
1904 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
19058 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
1906 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
1907 using strcmp() too often?
19087 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
1909 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
1910 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
1911 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
1912 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
1913 the two blocks to the memfile block.
19147 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
1915 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
1916 with an argument that can be messed with.
1917 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
1918 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
19197 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
1920- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
19218 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
1922 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
1923- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
1924 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
1925- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
1926- Do profiling on:
1927 - :g/pat/normal cmd
1928 - 1000ii<Esc>
1929 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
1930 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1931 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
1932 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
1933 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
1934 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00001935 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019367 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
1937 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
1938 changed).
1939 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
1940 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
1941- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
1942- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
1943 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
1944- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
1945 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
1946 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
1947- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
1948 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
1949- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
1950- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
1951 cursor is right of the screen.
19528 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
1953 CTRL-C (it's slow).
1954
1955
1956Code size:
19578 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
1958- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
1959 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
19608 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
19618 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
1962 it.
19637 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
1964 left out.
19658 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
1966 can be removed.
19678 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
1968
1969
1970Messages:
19718 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
1972 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
19738 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
1974 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
19758 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
1976 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001977- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
1978 Perhaps after ten seconds?
1979- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
19809 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
1981 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
1982 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
1983 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
1984 redrawing.
19857 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which
1986 match that regexp (Tsirkin).
19878 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
1988 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
19898 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
1990 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
1991 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
1992 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
1993 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
1994 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00001995- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00001996 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019978 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
1998 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
1999 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
2000 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
2001 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
2002 error messages, printing text, etc.
20038 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
2004 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
2005 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
2006
2007
2008Screen updating:
20097 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
2010 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
2011 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
2012- screen_line():
2013 - insert/delete character stuff.
2014 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
2015- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
2016 dragging the status line with the mouse).
2017- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
2018 waiting for a character.
20198 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
2020 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
2021 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
20227 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002023
2024
2025Scrolling:
20268 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
20276 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
2028- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
2029 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
2030 windows.
20317 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
2032 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
2033 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
2034- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
2035 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
2036 (Goldfarb)
2037- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
2038 bound windows.
2039- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
2040 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00002041- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002042- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
2043 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
2044 of lines but not with a single line).
2045
2046
2047Autoconf:
20488 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
20498 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
2050 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
2051- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
2052 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
2053- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
2054- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
2055- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
2056
2057
2058Perl interface:
20598 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020607 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
20617 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
20626 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
2063
2064
2065Shared libraries:
20666 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
2067 :libload internal-name libname
2068 :libunload internal-name
2069 :liblist
2070 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
2071 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
2072 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
20736 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
2074
2075
2076Tags:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020778 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag.
2078 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico
2079 Hendriks)
20807 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match
20818 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
20828 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
2083 to type the tag number directly.
20847 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki)
20857 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
2086 window for each tag.
20877 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
20887 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
2089 bottom" search message.
20907 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
2091 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
2092 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00002093- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
2094- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020957 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
2096 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
2097 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
2098 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
20997 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
2100 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
2101 :tagargs clear
2102 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
2103 matching).
21047 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
2105 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
2106 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
2107 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
21087 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
2109 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
21107 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
2111 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
2112 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002113
2114
2115Security:
2116- nothing at the moment
2117
2118
2119Win32 GUI:
21208 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
2121 the message and input?
21227 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
2123 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
2124 dynamically?
21257 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
2126 (Mike McCollister)
21278 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
2128 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
2129 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
2130 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
2131 common part of the path.
21328 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
21338 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
2134 gettext and menus work.
21358 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
2136 return in every console.
2137 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands:
2138 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
21398 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
2140 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
21418 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
2142 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
21437 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
2144 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
21457 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
21467 <Esc> should close a dialog.
21477 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
2148 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
2149 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
2150 prompts.
21517 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
2152 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
2153 the file added into an already running Vim.
21547 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
2155 functions to find the window title.
2156
2157
2158GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021598 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
2160- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
2161 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
21627 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
21638 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
21646 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
21658 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
2166 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
21679 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
21687 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
21698 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
2170 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
21718 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
2172 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
2173 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
21748 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
2175 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
21768 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
2177 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
2178 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
2179 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021807 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
21818 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
2182 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000021837 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
2184 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
2185 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021868 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
21878 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00002188 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021898 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
21908 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
21918 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
2192 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
2193 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
21947 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
2195 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
2196 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
21977 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
2198 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
21997 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
2200 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
2201 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
2202 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
22037 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
2204 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
22057 Should support multi-column menus.
2206- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
2207 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
2208- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
22098 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
22106 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
2211 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
22127 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
22137 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
2214 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
2215 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
22167 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
22178 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
2218 name can be chosen free.
22197 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
2220 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
22216 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
2222 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
2223 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
2224 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
2225 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
2226 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
2227 things.
22287 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
2229 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022307 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002231 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002232- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
2233 where it was started from?
22347 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
2235
2236
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002237Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000022387 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
2239 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
2240 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
2241 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022428 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
2243 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000022447 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022458 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
2246 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
2247 difficult).
22488 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode?
22497 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user
2250 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind
2251 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
22528 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event
2253 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a
2254 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively.
22558 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
2256 And anything else?
22578 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
2258 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
2259 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
22608 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
22618 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
2262 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
22636 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
2264 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
22657 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c
2266 file.
22677 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an
2268 autocommand event OpenDirectory.
22697 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
2270 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
2271 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
2272 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
22735 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
2274 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
2275 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
22767 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
2277 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
2278 file.
22798 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
2280 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
2281 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002282- Add events to autocommands:
2283 Error - When an error happens
2284 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
2285 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode
2286 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
2287 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode
2288 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00002289 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00002290 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
2291 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00002292 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002293 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002294 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
2295 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
2296 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
2297 window title)
2298 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
2299 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
2300 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
2301 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
2302 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
2303 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
2304 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
2305 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
2306 the char.
2307 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
2308 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
2309 file from CVS).
2310 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
2311 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
2312 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
2313 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
2314 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
2315 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
2316 WinResized - When a window has been resized
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002317- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the
2318 file now and then ('autosave').
2319 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
2320 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0)
2321 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
2322 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
2323 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
2324 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
2325 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
2326
2327
2328Insert mode completion/expansion:
23298 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
2330 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
23319 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
2332 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
2333 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023348 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
2335 - ignore/match case
2336 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023378 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000023387 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
2339 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023408 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
2341 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
2342 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
2343 Should work for C++ and Java.
2344 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
23457 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
23467 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
2347 instead of words.
23488 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
23498 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
2350 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
23518 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
2352 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
2353- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
2354 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
2355 wildcards in the file name)?
2356- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
2357- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
2358- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
2359 be in another file).
2360- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
2361- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
2362- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
2363 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
2364- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
2365- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
2366- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
23678 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
2368 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
2369 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
2370 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
2371- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
2372
2373
2374Command line editing:
23757 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
2376 line.
23778 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
2378 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
2379 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
2380- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
2381 lines wraps to start of line).
2382- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
2383 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
2384 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
2385 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
2386 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
2387 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
2388 cmdwin does now already.
2389 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
2390 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
2391 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
2392 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
2393 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
2394 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
2395 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
2396 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
2397 Problems:
2398 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
2399 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
2400 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
2401 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
2402 - Normal: no ":" commands?
2403 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
2404 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
2405 character in first column?
2406 - Implementation ideas:
2407 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
2408 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
2409 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
2410 - sync undo after entering a command line?
2411 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
2412 Mode.
2413
2414
2415Command line completion:
24168 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
24178 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
2418 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
24198 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
2420 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024217 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
2422 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002423- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
2424- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
2425 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
24268 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024278 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
2428 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
24297 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
2430 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
2431- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
2432 identifiers (Webb).
24338 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
2434 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
24357 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
2436 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
2437- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
2438 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
2439- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
2440 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
2441 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002442
2443
2444Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000024459 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
2446 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
2447 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002448- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
2449 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
2450 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
2451 completely resulted from one mapping.
2452- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
2453 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
2454
2455
2456Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000024579 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
2458 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
2459 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024608 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
2461 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
2462 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
2463 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
2464 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
24657 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
2466 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024677 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
2468 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
2469- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
2470 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
2471 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
2472 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
2473 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
2474 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
2475- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
2476 Normal mode.
2477- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
2478 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
2479 are used.
2480- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
2481- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
2482- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
2483
2484
2485'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000024868 Wrong indent below ? : with ():
2487 if ((a ? (b) : c) != 0)
2488 aligns with ":".
Bram Moolenaard8e9bb22005-07-09 21:14:46 +000024898 Using "+" part of 'cinoptions' where it's not expected (Alexei Alexandrov):
2490 if (a)
2491 {
2492 } else
2493 asdf;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024948 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments:
2495 Foo::Foo (int one,
2496 int two)
2497 : something(4)
2498 {}
24998 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines:
2500 Foo::Foo (int one, int two)
2501 : something(4),
2502 somethingelse(3)
2503 {}
25049 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger)
2505 int main ()
2506 {
2507 if (lala)
2508 do
2509 ++(*lolo);
2510 while (lili
2511 && lele);
2512 lulu;
2513 }
25149 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax)
2515 void function(int param) {
2516 if (false)
2517 return;
2518 }
25199 brace not indented correctly:
2520 case 'c': if (cond)
2521 {
2522 Should align with "if" in case statement.
25237 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching
2524 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf &&
2525 asdf
2526 )
25278 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
2528 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
25298 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
2530 func(
2531 new String[] {
2532 "asdf",
2533 "asdf"
2534 }
2535 );
25367 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
2537 func(
2538 int x) // indent like "(4"
2539 {
2540 if (a
2541 && b) // indent like "(0"
25428 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway)
2543 main() { char foo[] = "/*";
2544 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C
2545 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above.
2546 */
2547 hello
25489 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
2549 if (a)
2550 {
2551 if (b)
2552 {
2553 // {
2554 }
2555 } <-- this is indented incorrect
25569 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner)
2557 (void) MyFancyFunction(
2558 argument);
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002559- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002560 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
25617 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
2562- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
2563 line).
2564- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
2565- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
2566 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
25677 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
2568- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
2569 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
2570- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
2571 code), unless the line starts with "*".
2572- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
2573- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
2574 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
25758 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
2576 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
2577 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
2578- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
2579- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
2580 lines start with "\item".
2581- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
2582 /* here is a comment that
2583 is just autoindented, and
2584 nothing else */
2585- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
25867 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
2587 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
2588 indents.
2589 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00002590 Also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002591 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases.
2592
2593
2594Java:
25958 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
2596 Odendahl?
25978 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
2598 "[i" commands and friends.
2599- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
2600 (Jason)
2601- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
2602 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
2603
2604
2605'comments':
26068 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
2607 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
2608 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
2609 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00002610 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
2611 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026127 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
2613 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
26147 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
26156 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
2616 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
2617 regexp is used.
26188 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
2619 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
2620
2621
2622Virtual edit:
26238 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
26247 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the
2625 end of the line?
26267 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
2627
2628
2629Text objects:
26308 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +000026318 Add text object for part of a CamelHumedWord and under_scored_word.
2632 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000026338 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
2634 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002635 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
2636 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000026378 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026387 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
2639 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
26408 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
2641 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
2642 the end of the line or before a ".".
26437 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
2644 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
26457 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
2646 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026476 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
26485 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
2649 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
2650 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
2651 cursor is on.
2652
2653
2654Select mode:
26558 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
2656 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
26577 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
2658 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
26597 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
2660 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
2661 contains 'C' or 'A'.
2662 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
2663 normal_cmd().
2664 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
2665 - Typing text replaces the selection.
2666
2667
2668Visual mode:
2669- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
2670 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
2671 is in the top line.
26728 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00002673 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002674 where needed.
26757 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
2676 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
26777 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
2678 of each selected line.
26798 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
26808 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
2681 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
2682 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
26838 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
2684 Ben Godfrey)
26857 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
2686 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
26877 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
2688 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
26897 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
2690 Young is working on this)
26917 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00002692 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002693 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
26948 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
2695 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
26967 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
2697 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
2698 option!
26997 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
2700 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
2701 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
2702 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
2703 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
2704 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
2705 without changing the column.
27066 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027077 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
2708 current buffer.
27097 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
27106 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
2711 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
27126 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
27136 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them.
27146 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002715 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002716 or other special character.
27176 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
2718
2719
2720More advanced repeating commands:
2721- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000027227 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002723 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002724- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002725 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
2726 "y." will repeat last yank.
2727 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
2728 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
2729 and/or pick an older command.
2730- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
2731
2732
2733Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027348 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
2735 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
2736 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
27378 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
27387 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
2739 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027408 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
2741 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
27428 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
27438 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
2744 entering search strings.
27458 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
2746 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
2747 not the <Space>.
27488 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
27498 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
2750 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027518 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
2752 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
2753 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
27547 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
27557 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002756 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002757 option.
27587 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
2759 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
27607 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
2761 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
2762 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
27637 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
27646 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
2765 abbreviations are to be used.
2766- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
2767 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
2768 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
2769- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
2770- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
2771 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
2772 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002773- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
2774 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
2775- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
2776 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
2777- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
2778 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
27796 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
2780 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
2781 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
2782 hit another character.
2783- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
2784 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
2785 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
2786 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
2787 Or implicit:
2788 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
2789- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
2790 non-replace Insert mode?
2791- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
27926 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow
2793 mappings with arguments.
2794- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
2795- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
2796 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
2797- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002798 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002799- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
2800 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
2801- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
2802- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
2803 ":freekeys".
2804- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
2805
2806
2807Incsearch:
2808- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
2809- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
2810 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
2811 up every time.
2812- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
2813 folds when going to another line.
2814- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
2815 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
2816 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
2817 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
2818- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
2819 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
2820
2821
2822Searching:
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000028237 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
2824 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000028258 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
2826 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
2827 Perl does it this way:
2828 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
2829 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
2830 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
2831 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000028327 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
2833 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000028348 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
2835 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000028367 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002837 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
2838 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
2839 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
28407 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
2841 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000028427 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
2843 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for an offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028447 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
2845 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028468 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
2847 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
28488 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
2849 line.
28507 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
2851 example.
28528 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
2853 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
2854- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
2855 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
2856 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
2857 Alternative: use matchit.vim
28588 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
28598 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
2860 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
2861 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
28627 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
2863 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000028647 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
2865 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028668 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
2867 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
2868 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
28698 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
2870 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
28718 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
2872 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
2873 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
2874 search pattern.
2875- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
2876 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
2877- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
2878 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
2879 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
2880 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
28817 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic.
2882- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
2883 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
2884- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
2885 i ignore case
2886 I use case
2887 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
2888 v use Vi regexp syntax
2889 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
2890 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
2891 Perl uses these too:
2892 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
2893 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
2894 o compile only once (Perl only)
2895 s single line expression (we don't need it)
2896 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
2897 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
2898 following command.
2899 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
2900- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
2901 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
2902 for search string)?
29037 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
2904 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
2905- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
2906 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
2907- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
2908 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
2909- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
2910- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002911 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002912 a for the next file in the argument list
2913 f for file in the buffer list
2914 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002915 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
2916 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002917 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
2918 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
2919- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029207 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002921 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029227 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
2923 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
2924 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
2925 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
29266 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
2927 effects.
29287 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
2929 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
2930 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000029317 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002932 Also ":dselect".
2933
2934
2935Undo:
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00002936- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
2937 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002938- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
2939 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
2940 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
29418 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
2942 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
2943 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
2944 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
29458 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
2946 only remember the lines that really changed.
29477 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
2948 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
2949 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
2950 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002951- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
2952 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
2953- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
2954 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
2955- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
2956 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
2957 [-99].
2958- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
2959- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
2960- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's
2961 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with
2962 viminfo?
2963- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
2964 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
2965
2966
2967Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029687 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
2969 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
2970 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
2971 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
29728 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
2973 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
29748 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
2975 inode too.
29767 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002977 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
2978 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029797 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
2980 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
2981- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
2982 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
2983- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
2984 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
29857 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
2986 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
29877 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
2988 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
29898 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000029908 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002991 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
29927 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
2993 internal use and for when executing an external program?
2994
2995
2996Swap (.swp) files:
29978 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
2998 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
2999 there are short file name problems.
30008 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
3001 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
30028 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
30038 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003004 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003005 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
3006 file the same as the actual file?
3007 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030087 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
3009 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
30107 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003011 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003012 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
3013 enough room.
30147 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
3015 or /var/preserve.
3016- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
3017 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
3018- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
3019 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
3020- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
3021 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
3022 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
3023 cached list of which line is where.
3024
3025
3026Viminfo:
30277 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
3028 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
3029 else's viminfo file.
30308 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
3031 name. (Schild)
30328 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
30338 Remember the last used register for "@@".
30348 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
3035 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
3036 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
3037 this?
30387 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
30397 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
3040 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
30416 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
3042 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
3043 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
3044- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
3045 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
3046
3047
3048Modelines:
30498 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
3050 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
3051 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
3052- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
3053 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
3054 modeline setting.
3055- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
3056 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
3057- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
3058 .cpp files.
3059- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
3060 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
3061- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
3062 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
3063
3064
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00003065Sessions:
30668 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
3067 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
30687 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
3069 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030708 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
3071 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030728 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
3073 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
3074 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000030757 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
3076 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000030777 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
3078
3079
3080Options:
30817 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
3082 restore it after the command has executed.
30837 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
3084 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
3085 side effect.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030868 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
3087 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
3088 also be supported.
30898 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
3090 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
3091 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
30927 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
30937 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
3094 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003095
3096
3097External commands:
30988 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
3099 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
31004 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
3101 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
3102 -f).
31034 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
31044 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
3105 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
31064 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
3107
3108
3109Multiple Windows:
31107 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
31118 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
3112 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
31137 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
3114 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
3115 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
31167 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'.
31176 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
3118 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003119 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003120 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
31217 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
3122 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
3123 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
3124 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
3125- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
3126 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
3127 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
3128 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
3129
3130
3131Marks:
31328 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
3133 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000031348 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 +000031358 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
3136 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
31378 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
3138 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
3139 the mark was set.
31407 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
3141 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
3142 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
3143 ":browse marks"?
31446 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031457 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
3146 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
31477 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
3148 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
31497 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
3150 command).
31517 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
3152 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
3153 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
3154 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
31555 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
3156 mappings.
31576 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
3158 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
3159 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
3160
3161
3162Digraphs:
31637 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
3164 Also the keymap?
3165- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
3166 below/above).
3167- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
3168 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000031698 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031707 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
3171 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
3172
3173
3174Writing files:
3175- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
3176 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
3177 shortname conversion.
31788 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
31798 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
3180 file.
31818 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
3182 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
3183 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
31847 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
3185 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
31866 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
3187 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
31886 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
3189 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
31906 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
3191 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000031928 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003193 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
31947 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
3195 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
31967 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
3197 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
3198 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
3199 waiting for a character to be typed).
32008 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
3201 line of the window, like "[time]".
3202 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
3203 Automatic and/or with a command.
3204
3205
3206Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000032078 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
3208 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000032098 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003210 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
3211- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
3212- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
32138 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
3214 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003215- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003216 :s///N substitutes N times.
3217- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
3218 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
3219 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
32207 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
3221 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
3222 last line column 5.
32235 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
3224 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
3225 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
3226 (Stanislav Sitar)
3227
3228
3229Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032308 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
32317 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
32328 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
3233 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
3234 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
32357 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support.
3236- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
3237- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
3238 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
3239- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
3240- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
3241
3242
3243Crypt and security:
32448 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and
3245 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003246
3247
3248Argument list:
32496 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
3250 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
3251 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
32526 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
3253
3254
3255Registers:
32568 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
32578 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
3258 around in windows.
32598 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
3260 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
3261 for every line.
32626 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
3263 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
3264 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
3265- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
3266 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
3267- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
3268 leader when line wraps?
3269- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
3270 line in the range.
3271- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
3272 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
32738 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
3274 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00003275
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003276
3277Debug mode:
32787 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
32798 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000032808 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032817 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00003282 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
3283 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
3284 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032857 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
32867 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
3287
3288
3289Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000032907 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
3291 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000032927 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
3293 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032948 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
3295 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00003296- Perhaps ":cexpr" could read errors from a list?
3297 Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
3298 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032996 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
3300 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
33016 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
33027 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
3303 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
3304 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
33057 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
3306 window as a buffer-tab selection.
33077 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
3308 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
33098 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
3310 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033117 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile".
33126 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033138 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
3314 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
3315 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
3316 in this Vim.
33178 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003318 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033198 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
3320 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
3321 have it apply to the following command.
33228 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
3323 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
3324 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
3325 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033267 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
3327 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033287 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
3329 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
3330 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
3331 without modifier (unless mapped).
33328 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints.
33337 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim?
33346 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
33358 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
33369 Support ACLs on more systems.
33377 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
3338 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033397 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
3340 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
3341 (truncated to fit in the space).
33427 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
33438 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
33448 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
3345 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000033467 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003347 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
33487 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
3349 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033507 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033517 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
33527 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033538 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
33548 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
3355 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
3356 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
3357 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
33588 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
33596 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
3360 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
33618 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033628 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
3363 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
3364 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
3365 does something like this. (Shah)
33667 Use growarray for replace stack.
33677 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
3368 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
33693 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
33708 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt?
3371 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one
3372 line down, etc.
33738 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands.
3374 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that
3375 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have
3376 to be made for all functions that list something.
33777 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
3378 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
3379- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go
3380 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003381 jumps). (Webb) Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033827 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to
3383 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use
3384 "3 g CTRL-^" for this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003385- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
3386- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
3387- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
3388- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
33897 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
3390 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
3391- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
3392 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
3393- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
3394- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
3395 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
3396- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
3397 call "play newbeep.au").
3398- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
3399 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
3400 (Bhatt).
3401- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
3402 blockwise registers).
3403- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
3404 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
3405- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
3406 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
3407 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
3408 noticeable.
34099 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another
3410 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command.
3411- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034127 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
3413 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
3414- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
3415 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
3416 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
3417 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
3418 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +000034197 Add a way to define an item list with a pattern in 'formatoptions'. The
3420 'n' flag doesn't work for "6.3" or "6a.".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034218 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003422 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. Or use a string that starts with "="
3423 in 'formatprg': "=MyFormat()".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034248 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
3425 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
3426 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
3427 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
3428 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
3429- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00003430- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034317 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
3432 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
3433- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
3434 not in column 1.
34356 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
3436 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
34377 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
3438- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
34398 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of
3440 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003441- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003442 :redir #> bufname
3443 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003444- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
3445 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003446- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
3447 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
3448 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
34496 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
3450 console? (Klaus Hast)
3451- Add :delcr command:
3452 *:delcr*
3453 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
3454 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
3455 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
3456 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
3457 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
3458 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
3459- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
3460- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
3461 characters from 'isprint'.
3462- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
3463- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
3464 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
3465- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
3466 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
3467 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
3468- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
3469- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
3470 Nvi).
3471- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
3472 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
34737 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
3474- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
3475 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
34766 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
3477- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
3478 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
3479 macro).
3480- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003481- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
3482 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
3483- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
34848 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
3485- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
3486- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
3487- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
3488- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
3489 if it is not the first or last window.
3490- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
3491 there is one) instead of the file itself.
34927 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
3493 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
3494 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
3495- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
3496- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003497 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003498 many percent down the windows).
3499- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
3500 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
3501 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
3502- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
3503 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
3504- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
3505 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
3506- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
3507- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
3508- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
3509 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035108 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
3511 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
3512 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
3513 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
3514 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003515- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
3516 t_bs is set? (Webb)
3517- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003518 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
3519- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003520 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
3521 (Webb).
3522- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003523 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003524- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
3525 hex codes like 0xff).
3526- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
3527 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
3528 the last TYPED command.
3529- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
3530- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
3531- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
3532 should also work?
3533- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
35348 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
3535 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
3536 name.
3537- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
3538 trailing '.'.
3539- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
3540 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
3541 find_file_in_path().
3542- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
3543 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
3544- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
3545- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
3546 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
3547- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003548 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003549- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
3550 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
3551 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003552- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003553 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
3554- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
3555- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
3556- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
3557 to the minimal size.
3558- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
3559- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
3560- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
3561- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
3562- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
3563- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
3564- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
3565 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
3566- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
3567 entered)?
3568- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
3569 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003570- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003571- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
3572- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
3573- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
3574- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
3575- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
3576 lines.
3577- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase?
35788 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
3579 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
3580 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
3581 or in octal.
35827 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
3583 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003584- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003585 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
3586- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
3587- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
3588 insert line command).
3589- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
3590- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
3591- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
3592- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
3593- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
3594 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003595- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003596 yet.
3597- Implement 'redraw' option.
3598- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
3599 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036007 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
3601 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00003602 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
3603 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036048 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
3605 do it.
3606- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
3607- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
3608 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
3609- Add text justification option.
3610- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
3611- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
3612 off".
3613- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
3614- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
3615- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003616 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003617- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
3618- If file does not exists, check if directory exists.
3619- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
3620- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
3621 commands.
3622- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
3623- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
3624- :table command (Webb)
3625- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
3626- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with
3627 internal scripting language or Perl?
3628- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
3629- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
3630- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
3631- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
3632- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
3633 (Demirel).
3634- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
3635- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
3636 for use in macro's and the like.
3637- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003638 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003639- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
3640 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
3641- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
3642 read-only mode).
3643- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003644 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003645 a window to become smaller (Webb).
3646- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
3647 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003648- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003649 mkopttab to make option table?
3650- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
3651 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
3652- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
3653 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003654- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003655 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
3656- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
3657 cursor?
3658- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
3659- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
36605 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
3661 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000036628 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
3663 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
3664 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
3665 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
3666 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036678 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
3668 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
3669 (Netherton)
36706 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
3671 space after "(", for example.
36725 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
3673 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
3674 (Servatius Brandt)
3675
3676
3677From Elvis:
3678- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
3679- Add ":alias" command.
3680- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
3681- Search patterns:
3682 \@ match word under cursor.
3683 but do:
3684 \@w match the word under the cursor?
3685 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
36868 ":window" command:
3687 :win + next window (up)
3688 :win ++ idem, wrapping
3689 :win - previous window (down)
3690 :win -- idem, wrapping
3691 :win nr to window number "nr"
3692 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
36937 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
3694 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
3695
3696
3697From Nvi:
3698- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
3699- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
3700- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
37018 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
3702- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
37036 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
3704 :bg :hide
3705 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
3706 :dis b :ls
3707 :Edit fname :split fname
3708 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
3709 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
3710 :Previous :sprevious
3711 :Tag :stag
3712
3713
3714From xvi:
3715- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
3716- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
3717
3718
3719From vile:
3720- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
3721- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
3722 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
3723
3724
3725Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00003726- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
3727 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
3728 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
3729 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
3730 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003731- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
3732 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
3733- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
3734 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
3735 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
3736 current layout mirrored.
3737- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
3738- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
3739 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
3740- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
3741- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
3742 font in each top-level window.
3743- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
3744- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
3745- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
3746- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
3747 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
3748- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
3749 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
3750 mentioned in the tags file.
3751 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
3752 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
3753- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
3754 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
3755- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
3756 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
37574 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
3758 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
3759 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
3760 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003761 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003762 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
3763 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
3764- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
3765 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
3766 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
3767
3768
3769vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
3770vim: set fo+=n :