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Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2018 May 17
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +020041testdir: remove use of lua.vim from makefiles and test1.in
42
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020043Prompt buffer:
44- Add a command line history.
45- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
46
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020047Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020048- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020049- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020050- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
51 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
52 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020053
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020054Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020055- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
56 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020057- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
58 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
59- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
60 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020061- How to access selection in Terminal running a shell? (damnskippy, 2018 May
62 27, #29620 When terminal doesn't use the mouse, use modeless selection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +020063- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
64 is disabled.
65- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
66- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
67 redirection.
68- Terminal API: Add more functionality? (Ozaki Kiichi 2018 May 13, #2907)
69- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
70 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
71 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
72- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
73- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
74 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
75- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
76 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +020077
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +020078Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
79- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
80- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +020081
82Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
8313, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020084
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +020085On Win32 when not in the console and t_Co >= 256, allow using 'tgc'.
86(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #2833) Also check t_Co.
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +020087
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +010088Errors found with random data:
89 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +010090
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +020091More warnings from static analysis:
92https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +020093
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020094Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020095Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020096
97Using ":file" in quickfix window during an autocommand doesn't work.
98(Jason Franklin, 2018 May 23) Allow for using it when there is no argument.
99
Bram Moolenaarfd358112018-07-07 23:21:31 +0200100Patch in pull request #2967: Allow white space in sign text. (Ben Jackson)
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200101
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200102Whenever the file name is "~" then expand('%:p') returns $HOME. (Aidan
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200103Shafran, 2018 Jun 23, #3072) Proposed patch by Aidan, 2018 Jun 24.
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200104
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200105Patch to set w_set_curswant when setting the cursor in language interfaces.
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200106(David Hotham, 2018 Jun 22, #3060)
107
Bram Moolenaarfd358112018-07-07 23:21:31 +0200108Patch for Lua 5.3. (Ken Takata, 2018 Jul 5, #3157)
109
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200110Patch to make CTRL-W <CR> work properly in a quickfix window. (Jason Franklin,
1112018 May 30)
112
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200113Patch to make mode() return something different for Normal mode when coming
114from Insert mode with CTRL-O. (#3000)
115
Bram Moolenaarfd358112018-07-07 23:21:31 +0200116Patches for Python: #3162, #3263 (Ozaki Kiichi)
117
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200118Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
119modified buffers
120 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
121 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
122 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
123 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
124
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200125Patch to make :help work for tags with a ?. (Hirohito Higashi, 2018 May 28)
126
Bram Moolenaarfd358112018-07-07 23:21:31 +0200127Patch to adjust to DPI setting for GTK. (Roel van de Kraats, 2017 Nov 20,
128#2357)
129
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100130Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
131- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
132- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
133- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100134- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
135
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200136Patch for more quickfix refactoring. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #2950)
137
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200138Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
139- Test_setbufvar_options()
140- Test_exit_callback_interval()
141
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200142Patch to stack and pop the window title and icon. (IWAMOTO Kouichi, 2018 Jun
14322, #3059)
1448 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
145 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
146 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
147Using title stack probably works better.
148
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200149Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
150#2948. (related to #1512?)
151On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
152balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
15320, #2481)
154Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
155
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100156Try out background make plugin:
157 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
158or asyncmake:
159 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
160
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100161Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
162mode. Also used for switching Terminal mode.
163
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200164Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
165is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
166used for git temp files.
167
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100168Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
169
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200170Patch for Lua support. (Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2018 May 26)
171
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200172Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
173pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
174
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200175Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
176script or function.
177
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200178Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
179Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
180
181When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
182E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
183does nothing otherwise?
184
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200185MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
186If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
187(wait a little while).
188CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100189
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200190Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
191missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
192
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200193":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
194deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
195
196Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar, 2018
197Jun 10, #2998)
198
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200199Improve the installer for MS-Windows. There are a few alternatives:
200- Add silent install option. (Shane Lee, #751)
201- Installer from Cream (Steve Hall).
202- Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen)
203 https://github.com/gpwen/vim-installer-mui2
204- make it possible to do a silent install, see
205 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
206 Version from Guopeng Wen does this.
207- MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
208- The one on Issue 279.
209Problem: they all work slightly different (e.g. don't install vimrun.exe).
210How to test that it works well for all Vim users?
211
212Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200213
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200214Patch to use NGETTEXT() in many more places. (Sergey Alyoshin, 2018 May 25)
215Updated ptach May 27.
216
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100217Does setting 'cursorline' cause syntax highlighting to slow down? Perhaps is
218mess up the cache? (Mike Lee Williams, 2018 Jan 27, #2539)
Bram Moolenaar51ad4ea2018-04-06 11:14:11 +0200219Also: 'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100220
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200221When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
222with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200223
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200224Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200225Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200226
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100227Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100228Jan 15, #2555)
229
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200230":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
231
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100232Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
233
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100234No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
235No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
236
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200237Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
238http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
239Should be supported with a flag.
240
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100241Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
242confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
243
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100244Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
245
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100246Avoid that "sign unplace id" does a redraw right away, esp. when there is a
247sequence of these commands. (Andy Stewart, 2018 Mar 16)
248
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200249ch_sendraw() with long string does not try to read in between, which may cause
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100250a deadlock if the reading side is waiting for the write to finish. (Nate
251Bosch, 2018 Jan 13, #2548)
252
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200253Patch to include a cfilter plugin to filter quickfix/location lists.
254(Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018 May 12)
255
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100256Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
257Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
258applying the diff, etc.
259
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200260Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
261Apr 26, #2849)
262
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100263User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
264word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100265
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100266Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200267
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200268With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
269(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
270
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200271Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
272:drop (remote commands).
273
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200274Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
275
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200276Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
2772018 Jun 18, #3027)
278
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200279Implement option_save() and option_restore():
280option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
281 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
282 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
283 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
284 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
285 be called when the same window is the current window.
286 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
287 the local options won't be restored.
288
289option_save({list}) *option_save()*
290 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
291 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
292 let s:saved_options = option_save([
293 \ 'ignorecase',
294 \ 'iskeyword',
295 \ ])
296 au <buffer> BufLeave *
297 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
298< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
299 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
300 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
301 not where it was restored.
302
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100303"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
304directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
305Also see #1689.
306
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200307ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
Bram Moolenaar3ec574f2017-06-13 18:12:01 +0200308Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200309
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100310crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
31117, #2652)
312
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100313When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100314highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100315
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100316Patch to parse ":line" in tags file and use it for search. (Daniel Hahler,
317#2546) Fixes #1057. Missing a test.
318
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200319":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
320
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100321Patch to add winlayout() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018 Jan 4)
322
323No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
3242017 Dec 26, #2501)
325
326Get a "No Name" buffer when 'hidden' is set and opening a new window from the
327quickfix list. (bfrg, 2018 Jan 22, #2574)
328
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200329CTRL-X on zero gets stuck on 0xfffffffffffffffe. (Hengyang Zhao, #2746)
330
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100331A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
332
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100333Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
334(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
335
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200336Using an external diff is inefficient. Not all systems have a good diff
337program available (esp. MS-Windows). Would be nice to have in internal diff
338implementation. Can then also use this for displaying changes within a line.
339Olaf Dabrunz is working on this. (10 Jan 2016)
3409 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
341 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
342 It's complicated and badly documented.
343Alternative: use the xdiff library. Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2018 Mar
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +020034420, #2732)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200345
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200346ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
347
348Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
349
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100350Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
351Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
352
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100353Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
354in #846)
355Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
356
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200357Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
358Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
359
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100360When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
361redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200362
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100363In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
364(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
365
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100366Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
367neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100368
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200369Default install on MS-Windows should source defaults.vim.
370Ask whether to use Windows or Vim key behavior?
371
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100372Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
373Nov 21)
374
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200375When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
376triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
377set_color_count().
378
379Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
380responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
381
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100382When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
383CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
384Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
385always nested.
386
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200387matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
388
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100389Patch to add variable name after "scope add". (Eddie Lebow, 2018 Feb 7, #2620)
390Maybe not needed?
391
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100392Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
393
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100394MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100395for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
396
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200397Test runtime files.
398Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200399
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200400Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200401
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200402Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
403defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
404Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
405
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200406After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
40713, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200408
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200409Illegal memory access, requires ASAN to see. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jul 28)
410Still happens (2017 Jul 9)
411
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200412When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
413line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
414
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100415The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
416
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200417Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
418set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
419
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200420Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200421Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100422Memory leaks in test_escaped_glob
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200423
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200424Patch to make gM move to middle of line. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Sep 8, #2070)
425
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100426Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
427
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200428Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200429It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100430Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200431Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200432
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200433Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
434
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200435Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
436behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
437
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100438'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
439
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200440All functions are global, which makes functions like get() and len() awkward.
441For the future use the ~get() and ~len() syntax, e.g.:
442 mylist~get(idx)
443 mydict~get(idx)
444 mystring~len()
445Alternatives for ~:
446 ^ list^get() could also be used
447 . list.get() already means concatenate
448 $ list$get() harder to read
449 @ list@get() harder to read
450 -> list->get() two characters, used for lambda
451
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200452The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
453
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100454When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
455a command can delete it.
456
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200457When a swap file exists, is not for a running process, is from the same
458machine and recovering results in the same text, we could silently delete it.
459#1237
460
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200461Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
462#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
463
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100464The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
465for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
466
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200467X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
468pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
469clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
470Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
471Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
472clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200473Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200474
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100475Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
476http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
477http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
478Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
479- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
480- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
481- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
482 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
483- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
484- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
485Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
486- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
487- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
488Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
489- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
490
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200491Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
492
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200493Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
494attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
495that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
496
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200497Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
498(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
499
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200500Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
501Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
502terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
503Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
504(Also #1890)
505
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100506Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
507buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
508Also fixes #2166?
509
510Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
511
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200512Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
513stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
514
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100515Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
516possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
517
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100518Add `:filter` support for various commands (Marcin Szamotulski, 2017 Nov 12
519#2322) Now in #2327?
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +0100520
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200521When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
522case of :bwipe followed by :new.
523
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200524Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
525existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
526Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
527
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200528Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200529
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200530MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
531Jul 4)
532
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200533Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
534Drucker, 2017 May 8).
535This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
536Christian cannot reproduce it.
537
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200538Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
539wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
540Or is this not an actual problem?
541
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200542Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
543
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200544Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
545
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200546Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
547
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200548'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
549#1736)
550
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200551Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
5528, #1690)
553
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100554Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
555manager. Problem with Motif?
556
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200557Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
558(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
559
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200560Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
561it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
562
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200563Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
564Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
565How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
566
567Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
568(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
569
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100570Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
571
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200572Patch to add configure flags to skip rtl, farsi and arabic support.
573(Diego Carrión, #1867)
574
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200575assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
576it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
577
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200578New value "uselast" for 'switchbuf'. (Lemonboy, 2017 Apr 23, #1652)
579
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100580Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
581for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200582
583Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
584(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
585Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
586later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
587Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
588mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200589Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
590mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200591maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200592
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100593Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200594plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
595be defined when the plugin is loaded.
596
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100597Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
598 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
599 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100600
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200601json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200602What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100603
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200604Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
605
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200606import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
607(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
608
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100609When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
610buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
611Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100612
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +0100613When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist, behave
614like the item was not a match for :cnext.
615
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200616Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
617Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100618Another example in #1309
619
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100620When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
621when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
622
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100623Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
624#1330)
625
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200626Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
627
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100628Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
629
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100630GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
631g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
632timer expires.
633
634Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
635
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100636Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
637highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
638
6398 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
640 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
641
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100642Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
643Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
644
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200645Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
646key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
647 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
648 echo keytrans(xx)
649 <C-Home>
650
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100651Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
652(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
653Make a function to check for function-like type?
654
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200655Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
656(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
657
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +0100658Implement optional arguments for functions.
659 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
660 call Foo(12)
661 call Foo(12, all = 0)
662 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100663
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200664Change the Farsi code to work with UTF-8. Possibly combined with the Arabic
665support, or similar.
666Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
667
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100668Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
669somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
670
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100671Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
672(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
673
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200674Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
675Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
676New one from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #1277.
677
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200678Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200679Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200680Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200681
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100682The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
683"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
684Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
685
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200686Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
687
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200688Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
689about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200690Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
691
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +0200692Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
693#1053) With patch, does it work?
694
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100695Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
696MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
6972017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
698receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
699
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200700":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100701vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
702
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200703Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
704Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100705
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100706Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
707Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
708
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200709Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100710Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200711
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100712"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
713(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
714
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100715Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
716(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100717Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100718
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200719'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
720
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100721Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
722
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200723Patch to fix profiling condition lines. (Ozaki Kiichi,, 2017 Dec 26, #2499)
724
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200725Patch to be able to separately map CTRL-H and BS on Windows.
726(Linwei, 2017 Jul 11, #1833)
727
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200728When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
729Apr 23, #1653)
730
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100731Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
732anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
733
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100734When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that item.
735Make a difference being at the first item and not having used :cnext at all.
736(Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
737
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200738Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200739E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +0200740
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +0200741Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
742(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
743
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200744Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
745
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100746Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
747
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100748Patch to change argument of :marks. (LemonBoy, 2017 Jan 29, #1426)
749
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100750On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
751separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
752
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200753min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
754contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
755
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200756Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
757
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +0200758Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
759
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +0200760Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
761
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200762Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
763no longer support.
764
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200765sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
7664#1038)
767
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100768+channel:
769- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
770 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100771- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
772- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
773 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
774- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
775 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
776- Implement |job-term| ?
777- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
778- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
779 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
780 minute. Option to set the droptime.
781- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
782- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
783- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
784 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
785 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
786- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
787 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
788- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
789 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
790 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
791
792Regexp problems:
793- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
794 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
795- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
796 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
797- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
798 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
799 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
800 LC_CTYPE
801- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
802 matches everywhere.
803- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
804 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
805- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
806- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
807 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
808- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
809- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
810 2013 Dec 11)
811- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
812 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
813- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
814- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
815 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
816- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
817- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
818- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
819- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
820 2015 Feb 7)
821- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
822 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
823 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
824 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
825 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
826- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
827- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
828- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
829- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
830 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
831 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
832 col and vcol when moving to another line.
833- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
834 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
835- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
836 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
837 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
838 (2017 May 15, #1252)
839
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200840Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
841
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100842Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
843#1350)
844
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200845Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
8463. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
847Also see #1635.
848
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200849Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200850Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
851use the current behavior.
852Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200853
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +0200854Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
855New update 2017 Apr 10, #1628
856
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200857When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
858command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
859
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100860Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
861change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200862patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
863(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +0100864
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200865Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
866doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
867Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100868Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200869E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
870
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100871execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +0200872#1141)
873
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +0200874cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
875
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200876:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
877
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200878Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
879
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200880When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
881synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
882
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200883Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
884Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +0200885
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +0200886Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
887(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
888
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200889ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
890Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200891
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100892Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
893
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200894Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100895(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200896
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +0200897Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
898Jul 25, #948)
899
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +0100900Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
901names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
902Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
903the system encoding (usually utf-8).
904
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200905Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
906(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
907Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
908
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200909'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
910
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200911MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
912Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200913
914Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
915Also for ":@.".
916
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200917Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
918
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +0200919Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
920#1125
921
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +0200922Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
923times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
924
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +0200925This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
926(Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
927
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200928Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
929
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200930Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
931
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200932Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
933
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200934Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
935
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +0100936We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
937the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
938
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +0200939Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
940
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +0200941When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
942emoji_width table has only one entry.
943
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100944It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
945Reject the value? #710.
946
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +0200947When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
948Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
949
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200950Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaare0720cb2017-03-29 13:48:40 +0200951Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +0200952
953Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200954
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200955Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
956No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +0200957
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200958Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
959(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +0100960
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200961Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
962
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +0100963Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
964https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
965Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
966
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100967Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
968but the reference remains valid.
969
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200970Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +0100971interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
972Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
973interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
974result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200975
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200976Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +0100977work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200978
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100979Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
980
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +0200981Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
982
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +0200983Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
984Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
985
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200986When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
987Apr 17) #762
988
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +0200989exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
990Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
991
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100992Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
993'iskeyword' for syntax.
994
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +0100995Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
996(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
997
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +0100998Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
999
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001000When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1001maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001002Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001003
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001004Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1005It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1006Add configure check?
1007Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1008Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1009Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1010
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001011Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1012Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1013
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001014Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
1015Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
1016Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3). Still needs more work.
1017
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001018Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1019Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1020
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001021Access to uninitialized memory in match_backref() regexp_nda.c:4882
1022(Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 6)
1023
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001024":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1025directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1026
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001027In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1028(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1029
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001030If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
10312016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001032
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001033Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1034(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1035
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001036Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001037Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001038
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001039Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
1040Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
1041
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001042Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1043
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001044When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1045restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1046Do not trigger the event?
1047
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001048Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1049changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1050and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001051Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1052Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
10536, 2nd message)
1054Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001055
Bram Moolenaar681baaf2016-02-04 20:57:07 +01001056Patch to fix that executable() may fail on very long filename in MS-Windows.
1057(Ken Takata, 2016 Feb 1)
1058
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001059Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1060Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1061https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1062
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001063Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1064With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1065
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001066Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001067
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001068Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1069
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001070Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001071Only remembers one error.
1072
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001073Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
1074
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001075Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1076(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001077
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001078Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1079github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001080 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001081Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001082
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001083Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001084
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001085Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001086comparing individual items.
1087Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1088Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1089Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1090equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1091
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001092Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1093
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001094MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1095wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1096
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001097Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1098specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1099
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001100Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1101(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1102
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001103Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001104inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001105
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001106Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1107(Luchr, #277)
1108
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001109Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001110'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1111before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001112
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001113C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1114and also line continuation after #include.
1115I can't recommend it though.
1116
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001117Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1118(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1119
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001120Patch to add arguments to argc() and argv(). (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2016 Jan
112124) Also need a way to get the global arg list? Update later on Jan 24
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001122Update Mar 5. Update Apr 7. Update Jun 5.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001123
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001124To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1125library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1126
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001127When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1128is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1129
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001130Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
113130)
1132
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001133MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1134(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1135
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001136The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
113724): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001138
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001139":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1140effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1141
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001142":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
11439)
1144
1145The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1146wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1147
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001148Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001149Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001150
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001151When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1152the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1153
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001154Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001155slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1156inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1157
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001158ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
11592014 Sep 11)
1160
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001161Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1162(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1163
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001164When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1165'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1166
1167Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001168(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001169Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
1170- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
1171 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
1172 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
1173- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
1174 covered by the above change.
1175So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
Bram Moolenaar85084ef2016-01-17 22:26:33 +01001176same thing. Remarks on issue 543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001177Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001178
1179Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1180Work in progress.
1181
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001182Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1183when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1184
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001185Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1186Is this right?
1187
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001188Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1189(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1190Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1191
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001192Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1193Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001194
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001195Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1196Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1197
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001198Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1199
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001200When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1201filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1202initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1203
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001204Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1205
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001206Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1207OK to not block marks?
1208
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001209Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1210
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001211Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1212
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001213When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1214(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1215
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001216Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001217
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001218Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1219(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1220
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001221When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1222any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1223
1224Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001225
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001226Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001227
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001228Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny,
12292015 Feb 6.
1230
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001231Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
1232Is this a good solution?
1233
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001234Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1235(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1236
1237Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1238
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001239Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1240Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1241was already defined.
1242(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1243
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001244Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1245
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001246Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001247Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001248Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001249Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001250
1251Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001252
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001253Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1254(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1255
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001256Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1257(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1258
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +01001259Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
1260change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
1261them: ":repeats".
1262
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001263Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1264
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001265When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1266these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1267window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1268
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001269Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1270should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1271history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1272Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1273
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001274"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1275Jun 8)
1276
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001277Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1278insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1279
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001280No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1281
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001282Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1283(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1284Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1285arguments.
1286
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001287Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1288
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001289Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001290
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001291Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
12920x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1293New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1294compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1295
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001296Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1297a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1298
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001299xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1300buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1301Xterm 224 supports it!
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001302Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaardc1f1642016-08-16 18:33:43 +02001303Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001304Also see issue #609.
1305We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001306
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001307Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1308right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001309its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001310
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001311Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1312
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001313This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1314 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1315This neither: (ZyX)
1316 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1317
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001318'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1319Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1320from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001321
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001322Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
13232014 Jun 8)
1324
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001325Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001326Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001327Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1328Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1329User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001330- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1331 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1332 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001333- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1334- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1335 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1336 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1337 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1338 on vim.org.
1339- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1340 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1341- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1342- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1343- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1344- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1345Implementation:
1346- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1347 plugin separate.
1348- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1349 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1350 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1351- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1352 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1353- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1354 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1355 installing.
1356Out of scope:
1357- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1358- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1359 useful).
1360
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001361Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1362normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001363
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001364When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1365menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1366
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001367Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1368(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1369
1370":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1371various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001372
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001373Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001374(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1375
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001376VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1377instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1378
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001379Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001380Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001381
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001382Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001383command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001384
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001385Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1386
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001387Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1388highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001389
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001390The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1391For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1392
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001393Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001394possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001395
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001396Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001397
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001398Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
1399
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001400Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1401
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001402Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001403Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001404
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010014057 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1406 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1407 "lucida_console:h8").
1408Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1409
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001410:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1411
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001412Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1413
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001414Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1415
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001416When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1417(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1418
1419Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001420Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001421
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001422GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1423(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1424
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001425Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1426registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1427
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001428Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1429
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001430The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1431(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1432Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1433
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001434The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1435- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1436- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1437
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001438Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1439Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1440reliably?
1441
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001442Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1443(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1444
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001445Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1446(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1447
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001448Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
14492013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001450
1451Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1452
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001453Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
14545)
1455
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001456Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1457carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1458
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001459Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1460highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1461
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001462Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001463
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001464Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200146528) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001466
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001467Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
1468optional. (2013 Jul 12)
1469
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001470Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1471
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001472Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1473
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001474- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1475 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1476Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001477
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001478Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001479
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001480In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1481process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1482a reboot.
1483
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001484patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1485
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001486Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1487not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001488
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001489Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1490Or use expand('<sid>')?
1491
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001492Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1493
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001494Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001495
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001496Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
1497
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001498Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1499
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001500b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
15017)
1502
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001503Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1504compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1505
1506Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1507Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1508vim.bindeval().
1509
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001510Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
15112012 Aug 4)
1512
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001513Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1514(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1515
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001516Patch to add new regexp classes :ident:, :keyword:, :fname:.
1517(ichizok, 2016 Jan 12, #1373)
1518
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001519Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1520But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1521
1522Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1523Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1524Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001525
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001526Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1527loading all files.
1528
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001529MS-Windows resizing problems:
1530- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1531 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1532- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1533 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1534 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001535
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001536'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001537
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001538Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001539of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1540
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001541The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1542Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1543But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001544
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001545When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1546is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1547
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001548URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001549- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001550- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1551 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1552
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001553Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1554(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1555Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1556
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001557Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001558New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001559
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001560When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1561for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1562Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001563
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001564Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
1565
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001566Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
156724)
1568
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001569Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1570
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001571Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1572
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001573Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1574Apr 18)
1575
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001576Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1577And one for gui_x11.txt.
1578
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001579":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1580finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1581Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1582
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001583Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1584
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001585Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1586
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001587Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1588they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1589
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001590Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1591
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001592Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1593Nov 20)
1594
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001595Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001596Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001597
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001598`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001599(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1600
1601Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1602
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001603BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1604Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1605
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001606Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1607Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1608
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001609Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1610
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001611On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
16122012 Jun 19)
1613
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001614'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1615'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1616Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001617Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001618
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001619With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1620(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1621need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1622
1623Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1624only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
162521, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1626
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001627The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
1628support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
1629
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001630'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
1631highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
1632
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001633Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1634New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1635
1636Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1637Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1638
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001639Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1640Jan 19)
1641
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001642Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1643discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1644meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001645
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001646"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001647Oct 26)
1648
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001649Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1650
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001651With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1652register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001653
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001654Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1655
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001656When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1657(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1658
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001659When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1660then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1661from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1662
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001663Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1664":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
166515)
1666
1667Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1668
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001669BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1670cleared. See test64.
1671
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001672Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001673effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001674Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
1675
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001676On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
167764 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1678right type.
1679
1680string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1681(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1682
1683When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1684(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001685When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1686following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1687(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001688
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001689When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1690doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1691
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001692Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1693
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001694maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1695mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1696
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001697Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1698(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1699
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001700When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1701indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1702the help file.
1703
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001704After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1705Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1706
1707Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1708
1709"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1710
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001711Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1712
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001713Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001714
1715Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
17162010 Dec 18)
1717
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001718With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1719number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1720Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1721
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001722Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1723Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1724
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020017258 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1726Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1727
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001728Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1729one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1730the match scrolls into view.
1731
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020017327 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1733Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1734Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1735
17369 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1737 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1738Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1739
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001740Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1741Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1742
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001743In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1744or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1745sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1746
1747GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1748doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1749
1750GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1751
1752Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1753Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1754
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001755Wish for NetBeans commands:
1756 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1757
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001758Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1759
17607.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1761there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1762do?
1763
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001764Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
176522)
1766
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001767New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1768- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001769- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001770 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1771
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001772"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
17732011 Feb 27)
1774
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001775Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1776^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1777
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001778When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1779exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
17809) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1781
1782g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1783the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1784
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001785Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1786crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1787
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001788Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
1789number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
1790
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001791Regexp engine performance:
1792- Profiling:
1793 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1794 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1795 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1796 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1797 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1798 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1799- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1800- Performance tests:
1801 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1802 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1803 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1804 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1805 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1806 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1807 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1808 'hlsearch'.
1809 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1810 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1811 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1812 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1813
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001814Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1815Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1816
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001817'beval' option should be global-local.
1818
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001819Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001820
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001821setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001822
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +020018237 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
1824 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
1825 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001826 Is this an update: related to: #179
1827 https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/backupdir
1828 Fixed patch 2017 Jul 1.
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001829
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001830With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
18312010 Oct 24)
1832
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001833Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1834
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001835When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1836Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1837
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001838":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1839
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001840'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1841
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001842C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1843checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1844Issue 46.
1845
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001846Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1847
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001848Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1849gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1850
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001851":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1852accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1853
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001854Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1855setwinvar().
1856
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001857Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1858
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001859When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1860instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1861
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001862Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1863Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1864Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001865
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001866Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1867back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1868
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001869Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001870Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1871
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001872CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1873the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1874FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1875
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001876Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1877Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1878
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001879Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1880Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1881
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001882I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1883Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1884an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001885
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001886Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1887
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001888Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1889non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001890
1891iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1892Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1893or replace with a character and continue?
1894
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001895Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1896Requires configure check for localtime().
1897Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1898
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001899Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1900Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1901
1902Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1903
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001904Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1905Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1906path.
1907
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001908Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001909Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001910
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001911'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1912
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001913":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1914like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1915
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001916Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
1917https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001918
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001919Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
19202010 Nov 5)
1921
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001922Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001923Jan 7)
1924
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001925Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1926Only with "vim -u NONE".
1927
1928Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1929
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001930With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1931entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1932Feb 12)
1933
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001934Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1935characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1936
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001937Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1938
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001939Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1940 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1941
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001942Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1943
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001944When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1945Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1946
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001947When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1948not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1949string value.
1950
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02001951For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001952line argument -noregister.
1953
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001954When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1955missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1956
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001957When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1958doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001959
1960Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1961(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1962Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1963There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1964Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1965
1966":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1967highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1968to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1969
1970Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1971Probably needs a bit of work.
1972
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001973Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1974Added test, updates, June 23.
1975Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1976With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1977Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1978
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001979List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001980Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1981
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001982Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1983
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001984Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1985
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001986Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1987Sep 1)
1988
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001989Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1990
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001991Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1992on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1993
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001994Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
19952009 Jul 18)
1996
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001997Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1998window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1999Needs more work.
2000
2001Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2002
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002003When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2004few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2005
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002006'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002007(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2008
2009Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2010J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2011
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002012When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2013for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2014
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002015Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2016
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002017Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
2018
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002019":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2020because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2021ex_docmd.c.
2022
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002023Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002024Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2025
2026string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2027for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2028
2029Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2030
2031'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
203220)
2033
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002034Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
20352009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2036
2037Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2038
2039Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2040SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2041
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002042When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2043indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2044(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2045
2046Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2047are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2048Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2049Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2050that doesn't have a window.
2051
2052When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2053doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2054
2055getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2056displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2057
2058":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2059
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002060There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2061was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2062perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2063
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002064Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2065
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002066Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2067command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2068
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002069Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2070does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2071
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002072opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2073height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002074very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002075
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002076Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2077(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2078
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002079Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002080(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2081
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002082Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2083char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2084
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002085Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2086Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2087
2088This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2089
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002090Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2091messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2092es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
20932009 Jan 26)
2094
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002095When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002096in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2097Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2098
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002099Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2100a modeline.
2101
2102Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2103Sergey Khorev)
2104
2105Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2106part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002107
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002108After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2109correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2110
2111Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2112(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2113
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002114shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002115'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2116Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2117unix-like shell?
2118
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002119Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2120register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2121(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2122
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002123Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2124Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2125
2126Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2127make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2128
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002129When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2130still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2131
2132"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2133(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2134
2135Update src/testdir/main.aap.
2136
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002137Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2138that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2139ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2140Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2141
2142Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02002143Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002144
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002145MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2146doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2147probably causes this.
2148
2149'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020021502009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002151
2152Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2153 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2154 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2155(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2156
2157Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2158":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2159option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2160is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002161
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002162":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2163first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002164Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002165
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002166Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2167laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2168Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002169
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002170Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2171anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2172
2173On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2174doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2175Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2176Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2177
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002178When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2179'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2180fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2181the buffer to be unmodified.
2182Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2183another look at it.
2184
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002185c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2186(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2187
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002188You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2189error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2190Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2191at the other match for 0xBF.
2192
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002193When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2194argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2195
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002196Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2197backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2198
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002199When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2200line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2201
2202Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2203position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2204
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002205After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2206(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002207command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002208
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002209":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2210Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2211
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002212When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2213either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2214put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2215
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002216Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2217Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2218Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2219Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2220(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2221
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002222Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2223
2224ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002225
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002226Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2227(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2228escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2229an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002230This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2231July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002232Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2233work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2234
2235When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
223631)
2237
2238Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2239work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2240Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002241
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002242Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2243multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2244(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2245
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002246Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
22472008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002248Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002249
2250Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2251Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2252'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2253
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002254Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2255Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2256
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002257Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2258Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2259
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020022608 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2261 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2262 several).
2263 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2264 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2265 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2266Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2267
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002268The utf class table is missing some entries:
2269 0x2212, minus sign
2270 0x2217, star
2271 0x2500, bar
2272 0x26ab, circle
2273
2274Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2275line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2276
2277GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2278Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2279
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002280Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2281try the Cocoa version.
2282
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002283Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2284changed or the window is resized.
2285
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002286GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2287the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2288
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002289Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2290Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002291
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002292Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
22931) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2294
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002295C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2296with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2297Try to reproduce at work.
2298
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002299Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2300Is there a way to list all the files first?
2301
2302When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2303result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
230416)
2305
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002306Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2307(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2308
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002309Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2310Await response to question to make the register writable.
2311
2312Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
23131)
2314
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002315In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2316each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2317
2318try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2319
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002320try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2321
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002322":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2323Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2324
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002325Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2326
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002327Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2328Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2329
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002330Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2331Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2332Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002333
2334C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
2335(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
2336
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002337When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2338and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2339
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002340Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2341 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2342
2343New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2344
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002345":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2346a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2347
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002348'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2349Likonen, March 19)
2350
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002351Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2352other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2353
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002354The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2355appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2356matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2357
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002358When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2359character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2360'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2361(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2362
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002363Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2364Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002365
2366More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2367
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002368Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2369http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2370
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002371Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2372back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2373Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002374
2375Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2376No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2377
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002378Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2379terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002380
2381Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2382
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002383Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2384but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2385that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002386
2387When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2388
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002389Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2390Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2391
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002392Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2393popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2394size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2395This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2396
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002397When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2398it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2399
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002400Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2401then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2402files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002403Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2404indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2405":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002406in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2407quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002408Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002409
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002410When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2411parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2412neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2413particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2414Jun 3)
2415However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2416the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002417
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002418A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2419Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2420
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002421Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2422Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2423
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002424Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2425switch list is noticed:
2426 switch (i)
2427 {
2428 case 1:
2429 foobar:
2430 }
2431
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002432Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2433
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002434Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2435with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2436go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2437moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2438
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002439Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
2440Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
2441Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2442argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2443(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2444
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002445Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2446(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2447
2448Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2449makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2450.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
2451 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
2452
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002453Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
24542007 Feb 8)
2455
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002456Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2457set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002458
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002459Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2460
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002461Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2462Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2463New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2464patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2465
2466Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2467Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2468
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002469Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
24702007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002471Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002472
2473Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002474label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2475
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002476Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2477with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2478Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002479
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002480Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2481
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002482Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2483Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2484only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2485
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002486Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2487Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002488Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002489properly?
2490
2491Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
24922007 Jun 21)
2493
2494When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2495Jun 18)
2496
2497If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2498
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002499Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2500windows. (Adam George)
2501
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002502F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
2503modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
2504K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002505
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002506In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2507the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2508
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002509C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2510
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002511":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2512
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002513When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002514error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002515
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002516Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
2517use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2518
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002519Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2520if_ruby.c.
2521
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002522":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2523
2524The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2525it in keep_msg?
2526
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002527Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002528error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002529name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2530
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002531Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2532longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002533
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002534Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2535Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2536Also for ":w" without a file name.
2537The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002538
2539"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2540Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2541
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002542VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2543directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2544(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2545
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002546VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2547
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002548input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2549name?
2550
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002551Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2552
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002553When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2554(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2555Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2556will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2557
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002558gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2559This also fails with --remote.
2560
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002561When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
25622008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2563all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2564
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002565aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2566
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002567When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2568(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2569
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002570Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2571the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2572
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002573GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2574
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002575Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2576superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2577
2578Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2579character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2580
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002581Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2582Jun 5)
2583
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002584Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
25852008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2586Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2587
2588In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2589but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2590Jul 22)
2591
2592There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2593
2594Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2595":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2596somehow? Or use a new function.
2597
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002598Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2599
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002600Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2601moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2602that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2603
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002604The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2605
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002606When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002607cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2608the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2609
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002610These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2611 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2612 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2613 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2614
2615Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2616partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2617
2618In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2619buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2620reload it then?
2621
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002622For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2623
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002624Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2625only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2626
2627Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2628tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2629doesn't contain other directories.
2630
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002631Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2632Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2633
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002634Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2635 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2636 set background=dark
2637This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2638color is, not reset it.
2639
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002640Linux distributions:
2641- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
2642 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
2643 xfree-xterm".
2644- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
2645
2646Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2647start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2648show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2649middle?
2650
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002651Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2652
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002653When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2654current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2655the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2656
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002657When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2658Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2659
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002660Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
2661 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
2662 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
2663 - getting colors in xterm
2664 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
2665
2666Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2667Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2668
2669Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2670
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002671A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2672Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2673
2674Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2675Dara, 2006 June 21)
2676
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002677Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2678number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2679
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002680After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2681the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2682
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002683Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002684
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002685Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2686Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2687
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002688Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010026892008 Sep 29)
2690
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002691In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2692check the result of has("patch13").
2693
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002694Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2695restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2696
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002697Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2698and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2699
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002700Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2701put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2702
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002703Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2704resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2705
2706In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2707can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2708
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002709GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2710maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2711doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002712Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2713visible.
2714
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002715When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2716differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002717
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002718The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2719be only one.
2720
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002721Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002722"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2723name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2724Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002725
2726Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2727(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2728
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002729Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2730as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2731
2732Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2733Jan 1)
2734
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002735Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
273623)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002737
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002738":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2739tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2740Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002741
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002742When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2743text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2744latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2745
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002746Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2747no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2748
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002749In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2750VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
27512007 Oct 16)
2752
2753TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2754Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2755
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002756Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002757
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002758When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2759typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2760Sep 3, 11)
2761
2762When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2763respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2764the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2765what happens for the GUI.
2766
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002767":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2768this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2769
2770When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2771Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2772restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2773
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002774Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
27752010 Jun 30)
2776
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002777Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2778'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2779(Kartik Agaram)
2780
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002781
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002782Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002783- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2784 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2785- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2786 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2787 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2788- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2789 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2790 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002791- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2792- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002793
2794
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002795More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002796- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2797 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002798- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002799- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2800 patch May 10)
2801- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2802 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2803- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2804 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2805- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2806- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2807- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2808 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2809 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002810- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002811- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2812 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2813- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2814 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2815- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2816 21)
2817- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2818 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2819- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2820 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002821- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2822 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002823- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2824 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2825 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2826 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2827 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002828- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002829
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002830Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000028319 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2832 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2833 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2834 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2835 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2836 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2837 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2838 (Alan Schmitt)
2839 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002840 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2841 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000028429 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002843 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000028448 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028457 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2846 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2847 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028488 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002849 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020028507 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002851 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2852- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2853 for multi-byte characters.
2854- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2855- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2856 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2857 been given values.
2858 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
28598 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002860 with an ESC sequence.
2861 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2862 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2863 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028647 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2865 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2866- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2867 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2868 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
28698 Add functions:
2870 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2871 Update 2004 Sep 10
2872 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2873 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002874 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002875 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2876 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2877 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2878 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2879 (2003 May 13)
2880 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2881 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002882 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2883 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002884 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2885 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2886 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028877 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2888 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2889- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2890 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
28917 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2892 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000028938 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2894 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028957 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
28968 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2897 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
28987 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2899 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029007 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2901- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2902 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2903 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002904- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2905 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2906- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2907
2908
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002909Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002910- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2911 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029128 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2913 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2914 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2915 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2916 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2917 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029188 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2919 make Vim exit.
29207 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2921 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2922 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
29238 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2924 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2925 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
29266 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2927 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2928 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
29298 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2930 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2931 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2932 names in one buffer???
2933 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2934 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2935 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
29367 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2937 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2938 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002939 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2940 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029417 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2942 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
29437 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
29447 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029457 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2946 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2947 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2948 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
29497 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
29507 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
29517 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2952 to the match with the tag? Option?
29537 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
29547 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2955 (Sayre).
29567 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2957 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029587 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2959 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2960 match. Nvi can do it too.
29617 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2962 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2963 line 1\ line 2\\
2964 line 2\ line 3\\
2965 . line4/
29666 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2967 the way the shell is started?
29686 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2969 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2970
2971
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002972GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029739 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029748 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2975 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2976 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000029778 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2978 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2979 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029809 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2981 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2982 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2983 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002984- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2985 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2986 blocked for now.
2987
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002988
2989Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002990- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2991 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029928 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2993 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2994 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
29958 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2996 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029976 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2998 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000029998 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3000 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3001 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030027 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3003 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3004 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030057 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3006 2004 May 9)
30078 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3008 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3009 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3010 MS-Windows 98?
3011 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3012 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3013 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3014 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030158 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3016 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3017 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3018 doesn't work properly.
30198 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3020 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3021 appears in the right position. (Webb)
30229 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3023 button doesn't give popup menu.
3024 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3025 selection.
3026 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3027 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3028 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
30298 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3030 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3031 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3032 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
30338 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3034 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3035 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030367 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
3037 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
3038 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
30397 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3040 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003041 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030427 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3043 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030446 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
30458 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3046 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3047 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
30488 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3049 know which keyboard is being used?
30507 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3051 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3052 area (Koloseike).
30538 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3054 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3055 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3056 the font name).
3057
3058
3059Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000030606 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3061 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3062 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3063 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3064 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030659 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3066 required and it's missing?
30678 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3068 wrong.
30699 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3070 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000030719 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003072 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3073 flag.
30748 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3075 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3076 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
30778 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
30786 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3079 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3080 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3081 the tooltips work though...
30827 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3083 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
30848 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3085 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3086 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3087
3088
3089Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010030909 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3091 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030929 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3093 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3094 through files.
30957 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3096 read long file names. (Schroeder)
30974 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3098 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3099 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3100 problem during a refresh.
31015 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3102 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3103 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3104 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3105 colors as it should.
3106 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3107 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3108
3109
3110Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003111- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031127 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3113 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031148 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3115 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3116 (Phillipps)
3117
3118
3119GUI:
31209 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3121 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
31229 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003123 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003124 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
31259 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3126 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
31278 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3128 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
31298 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3130 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3131 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
31328 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3133 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3134 of where it is processing the output.
3135 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
31368 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3137 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010031388 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000031398 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3140 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3141 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020031428 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031438 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3144 browse().
31458 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3146 use that code? Or use console dialog.
31478 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3148 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000031497 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3150 - regexp on/off
3151 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3152 when all buffers/directory is used:
3153 - filter for file name
3154 when directory is used:
3155 - subdirectory on/off
3156 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031578 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3158 to avoid problems.
31598 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3160 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3161 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
31628 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3163 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3164 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
31658 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3166 up. Set erase character somehow?
31678 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3168 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3169 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3170 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
31718 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
31727 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3173 visible.
31747 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3175 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
31767 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3177 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
31788 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3179 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
31808 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3181 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3182 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3183 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3184- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
31854 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3186 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3187 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3188
3189
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003190Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000031918 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3192 a good fallback, thus use:
3193 $HOME
3194 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3195 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3196 $USERPROFILE
3197 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3198 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3199 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3200 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032018 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3202 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
32038 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3204 Should work like in the GUI version.
32058 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3206 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
32078 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3208 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
32098 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3210 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3211 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032128 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3213 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3214 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3215
3216
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003217Win32 console:
32189 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3219 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3220 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3221 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3222 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3223 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3224 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3225 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3226 and the file is not saved.
3227 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3228 long name.
32298 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3230 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
32317 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3232 besides the console.
32338 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
32349 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3235 <C-S-i>?
32369 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3237 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
32388 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3239 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003240
3241
3242Amiga:
32438 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3244 sequences.
32459 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3246 backslashes in result.
32478 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3248 all options, using white space separation.
3249
3250
3251Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003252- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032537 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3254 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3255 (Jack)
3256 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032578 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3258 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032598 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
32608 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
32619 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3262 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032639 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003264
3265
3266"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003267- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3268 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003269- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3270 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003271- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3272 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3273 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3274 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3275 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3276 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3277 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000032789 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3279 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000032809 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003281 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3282 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032838 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3284 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3285 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003286 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032877 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3288 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
32898 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3290 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3291 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032927 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3293 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003294- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3295 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032968 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3297 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3298 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3299 using the horizontal scrollbar.
33007 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3301 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3302 invocations belong together.
33038 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3304 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
33058 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3306 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3307 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003308 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000033098 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3310 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3311 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033128 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3313 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033147 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3315 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3316 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3317 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033187 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3319 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3320 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
33217 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3322 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3323 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
33247 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3325 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033267 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3327 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033289 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3329 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3330 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3331 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3332 script can be called.
33338 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3334 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3335 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033368 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3337 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033388 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003339 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3340 configurable?
33418 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033428 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3343 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033448 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3345 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033468 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3347 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033489 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3349 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3350 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033517 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033528 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3353 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3354 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000033558 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3356 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003357 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3358 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033598 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3360 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
33619 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3362 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3363 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003364 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033657 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3366 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033677 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3368 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3369 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3370 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033718 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003372 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3373 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3374 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3375 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003376 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3377 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003378 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003379 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003380 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3381 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3382 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3383 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3384 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033858 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3386 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
33878 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3388 in lines that don't extend into the block?
33898 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3390 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3391 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
33928 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3393 'linebreak'.
33948 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3395 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3396 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033979 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3398 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3399 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3400 'magic' in history. (Margo)
34019 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3402 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
34039 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
3404 isn't updated).
34059 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
34069 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3407 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3408 cause another redraw, etc.
34098 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3410 must escape special characters in the pattern.
34118 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3412 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3413 ":w!!" for that.
3414 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3415 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003416 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034177 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3418 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3419 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3420 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3421 clipboard)
34227 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3423 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3424 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000034256 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3426 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3427 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034288 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3429 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
34308 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3431 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3432 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000034338 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034348 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3435 (e.g., ":w").
34368 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3437 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034388 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3439 script in do_cmdline().
34408 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3441 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3442 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3443 changes.
34448 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3445 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
34468 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3447 check for file marks. This can be slow.
34487 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
3449 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
3450 needed.
3451 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
34528 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3453 to skip catch_signals()?
34549 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3455 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3456 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3457 text?
34588 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3459 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
34608 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3461 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
34629 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3463 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3464 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3465 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3466 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
34677 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3468 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3469 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3470 in the list?
34718 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3472 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3473 instead of on button down.
34748 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
34759 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3476 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003477 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3478 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034798 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3480 character is typed.
34818 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3482 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
34838 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3484 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
34858 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3486 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3487 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3488 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3489 cygwin bash.
34907 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3491 Remember flags for backreferences.
34927 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3493 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
34947 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3495 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
34968 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3497 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
34987 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3499 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035007 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3501 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3502 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
35037 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3504 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
35058 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3506 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3507 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
35087 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3509 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003510
3511
3512I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
35139 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3514 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3515 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003516
3517
3518Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003519- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3520 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3521 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003522- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3523 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3524 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3525 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3526 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3527 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003528 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003529- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3530 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003531 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003532 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3533 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3534 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003535- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3536 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3537 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3538 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3539 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3540- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3541 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3542 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3543- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3544 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003545- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003546- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3547 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3548 character gets the highlighting.
3549- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3550 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3551- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3552 (Jennings)
3553- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
3554- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3555 errors. How do we get the rest?
3556- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003557- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003558 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003559- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3560 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3561 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3562- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3563 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3564 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3565 (Benzinger).
3566- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3567 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3568 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3569- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3570 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3571- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3572 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3573- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3574 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3575 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3576 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3577 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3578 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3579- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3580 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3581 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003582- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3583 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3584 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003585- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3586 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3587 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3588- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3589 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3590- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3591 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003592- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3593 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3594- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3595 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3596 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3597 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3598 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3599- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3600 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3601 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3602- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3603 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3604 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003605- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3606 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 +00003607- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3608 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3609 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3610 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3611 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3612- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3613 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3614
3615--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3616 *extensions-improvements*
3617
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003618Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3619- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3620 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3621 calling a function.
3622 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3623 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003624- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3625 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003626- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3627 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3628 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3629 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3630 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3631 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003632 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003633- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3634 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3635 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003636- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3637 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000036388 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3639 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3640 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3641 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003642- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3643 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003644
3645
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003646Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036478 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3648 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000036498 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3650 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000036518 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3652 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036538 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036549 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3655 - change to cursor position and curswant
3656 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3657 - how it works for folded lines
3658 - how it works with multi-byte characters
36599 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3660 work too.
36618 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3662 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3663 text.
36648 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
36657 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3666 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
36677 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3668 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003669 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003670- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3671
3672
3673Help:
3674- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3675 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3676- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3677 to the other matches.
3678- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003679- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3680 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3681 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3682 default contents.
3683- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3684 height for the help window (and other windows).
3685- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3686- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3687- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3688
3689
3690User Friendlier:
36918 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3692 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3693 Briscoe)
36948 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
36958 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3696 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3697 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
36988 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3699 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3700- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3701 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003702- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
37039 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3704 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3705 item?).
3706 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037078 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000037087 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3709 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3710 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000037118 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3712 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3713 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3714 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003715
3716
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003717Tab pages:
37189 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037197 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3720 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037218 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000037228 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037237 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037247 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003725 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037268 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3727 tab pages.
37287 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037297 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3730 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003731
3732
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003733Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003734- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3735 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3736- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3737 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3738 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3739- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3740 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003741- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3742 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3743 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003744- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3745 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3746 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003747- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3748 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003749- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003750 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3751 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000037528 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3753 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
37548 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3755 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
37568 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3757 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003758 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003759 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3760 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3761 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3762 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003763- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3764 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003765- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003766- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3767 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003768- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003769 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003770- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003771 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003772- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3773 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003774- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3775 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3776- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003777 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003778 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3779 in the affix file separately.
3780 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003781 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003782 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3783 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3784 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3785- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3786 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3787 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3788 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3789 Alternative:
3790 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3791 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3792 affix which is required.
3793- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003794 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003795- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3796 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3797 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003798- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3799 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003800- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3801 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3802- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038038 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3804 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3805 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3806 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003807- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3808 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3809 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3810 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038118 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3812 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038138 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
38148 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3815 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000038167 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
38178 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3818 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3819 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3820 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003821
3822
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003823Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020038249 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3825 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020038268 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003827 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003828
3829Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003830 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3831 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038328 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3833 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000038348 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038358 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3836 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3837 user aware of this?
38388 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3839 commands skip over a closed fold.
38408 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
38418 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038427 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003843- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3844 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3845 missing line goes unnoticed.
3846 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003847- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3848 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3849 smoother?
3850- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3851 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003852- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3853 file can contain:
3854 args version.c main.c
3855 edit version.c
3856 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003857- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003858- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3859 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003860- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3861 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003862- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3863 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003864- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003865
3866Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003867- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3868 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3869 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3870 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038719 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3872 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3873 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3874 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020038759 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3876 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3877 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038788 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3879 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3880 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3881 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3882 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3883 item.
38848 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003885 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3886 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038878 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3888 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003889 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003890 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038918 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3892 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038938 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3894 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3895 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038967 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3897 so that the user can fix the problem.
38988 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3899 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039009 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
39018 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039028 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
39038 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039047 Searching and composing characters:
3905 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003906 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3907 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039088 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
39098 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
39108 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3911 characters.
39128 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
39138 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3914 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
39157 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3916 'display' option to specify this.
39177 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3918 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3919- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3920 fontselector somehow.
3921- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3922 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3923- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3924 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3925- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3926 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3927 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3928 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3929 if a font exists?
3930- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003931 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003932- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3933 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003934- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3935 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3936 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3937 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003938- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3939 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003940 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003941- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3942 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3943 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3944 But it's very complicated...
3945
3946
3947Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000039487 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003949- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3950- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3951 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003952- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3953 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003954- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3955- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3956 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003957- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3958 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003959- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3960 units as for the margins.
3961- Support right-to-left text?
39628 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3963 color.
3964
3965
3966Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039678 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3968 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
39698 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3970 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
39718 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3972 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000039737 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3974 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039758 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3976 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3977 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039787 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3979 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3980 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039818 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
39829 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3983 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039847 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3985 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000039867 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3987 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039888 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3989 change this for each release.
39908 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3991 pattern, but not in the body.
39928 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3993 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3994 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039958 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010039968 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003997 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3998 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039998 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4000 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
40018 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4002 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004003 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040048 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4005 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4006 used.
40078 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4008 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
40098 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4010 re-insert the [] if possible.
40118 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4012 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000040138 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4014 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4015 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4016 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4017 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040188 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4019 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
40208 Support for deleting syntax items:
4021 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4022 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4023 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
40248 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4025 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4026 a '<'. (Fleiner)
40277 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4028 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4029 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
40307 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4031 detected.
40328 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004033 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040348 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4035 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040368 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
40378 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
40387 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4039 ":mkvimrc".
40408 Improve c.vim:
4041 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4042 "c_strict_ansi".
4043 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
40448 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4045 current line while in Insert mode.
40468 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4047 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
40488 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4049 display position.
40508 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4051 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4052 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
40538 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4054 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4055 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000040567 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4057 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4058 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4059 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4060 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040617 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4062 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4063 E.g. for this html:
4064 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040657 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
40667 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4067 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040688 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
40698 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040707 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4071 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4072 completion?
40738 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4074 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
40757 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4076 select one of the sets.
40778 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4078 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4079 2, etc.
40808 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4081 highlighting (for "." command).
40828 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4083 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
40848 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
40857 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4086 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
40876 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4088 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4089- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4090 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4091- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004092- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4093 (for comment blocks).
4094- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4095 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4096 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4097 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4098 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4099 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4100 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4101 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4102 (Campbell)
4103 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4104 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
41057 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4106 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
41077 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4108 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4109 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
41107 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4111 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4112 messages. And external commands?
41138 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4114 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
41157 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4116 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4117
4118
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004119Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041208 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4121 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004122 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000041237 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4124 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4125 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041268 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4127 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004128- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
4129 2006 Dec 11.
4130- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020041318 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4132 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4133 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4134 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4135 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4136 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000041377 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4138 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041398 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010041408 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4141 can be the plugin name.
4142 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4143 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041447 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4145 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4146 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4147 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4148 autocommand.
4149 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4150 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4151 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4152 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041537 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4154 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041556 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4156 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041578 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004158 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4159 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004160 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4161 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4162 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004163 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4164 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4165 3 2002
4166 Only add this when also implemented for
4167 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4168 be used.
4169 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004170 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4171 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4172 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4173 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4174 File.Open..." argument.
4175 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4176 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4177 with properties instead.
4178 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4179 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4180 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004181 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004182 crypt() encrypt string
4183 decrypt() decrypt string
4184 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4185 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004186 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004187 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004188 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004189 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004190 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004191 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4192 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004193 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4194 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004195 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004196 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4197 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4198 to allow the library to execute a command or
4199 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042007 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4201 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
42028 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4203 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042048 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4205 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042068 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020042079 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004208 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
42096 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042108 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4211 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042128 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4213 option or environment variable.
42148 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042158 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004216 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042177 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4218 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042198 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4220 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
42218 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
42228 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4223 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4224 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4225 charwise({expr}).
42267 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4227 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4228 buffer for this?
4229 result = scratch(string, command)
4230 result = apply(string, command)
4231 result = execute(string, command)
4232 "command" would use <> notation.
4233 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
42347 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004235
4236
4237Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000042386 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4239 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4240 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4241 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4242 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4243 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4244 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004245
4246
4247Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042487 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4249 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042507 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4251 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4252 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4253 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042548 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4255 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4256 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4257 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004258 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042598 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
42609 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
42618 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
42627 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4263 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
42648 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4265 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4266 when starting up in a color terminal.
42678 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4268 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042698 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4270 function be improved?
42718 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4272 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4273 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4274 this be improved?
42758 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4276 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000042777 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4278 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042797 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4280 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
42817 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4282 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042837 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4284 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4285 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4286 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4287 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4288 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4289 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042908 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4291 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4292 using strcmp() too often?
42937 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4294 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4295 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4296 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4297 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4298 the two blocks to the memfile block.
42997 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4300 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4301 with an argument that can be messed with.
4302 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4303 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
43047 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4305- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
43068 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4307 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4308- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4309 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4310- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4311- Do profiling on:
4312 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004313 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4314 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4315 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4316 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4317 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4318 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004319 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043207 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4321 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4322 changed).
4323 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4324 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4325- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4326- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4327 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4328- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4329 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4330 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004331- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4332- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4333 cursor is right of the screen.
43348 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4335 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4336
4337
4338Code size:
43398 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4340- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4341 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
43428 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
43438 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4344 it.
43457 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4346 left out.
43478 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4348 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010043498 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004350
4351
4352Messages:
43538 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4354 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
43558 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4356 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
43578 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4358 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004359- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4360 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4361- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043628 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4363 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043649 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4365 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4366 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4367 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4368 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043698 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4370 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
43718 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4372 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4373 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4374 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4375 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4376 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004377- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004378 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043798 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4380 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4381 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4382 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4383 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4384 error messages, printing text, etc.
43858 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4386 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4387 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4388
4389
4390Screen updating:
43917 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
4392 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
4393 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
4394- screen_line():
4395 - insert/delete character stuff.
4396 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4397- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4398 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4399- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4400 waiting for a character.
44018 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4402 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4403 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004404
4405Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020044068 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044076 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4408- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4409 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4410 windows.
44117 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4412 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4413 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4414- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4415 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4416 (Goldfarb)
4417- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4418 bound windows.
4419- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4420 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004421- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004422- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4423 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4424 of lines but not with a single line).
4425
4426
4427Autoconf:
44288 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
44298 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4430 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4431- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4432 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4433- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4434- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4435- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4436
4437
4438Perl interface:
44398 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044407 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
44417 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
44426 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4443
4444
4445Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020044468 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4447 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044486 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4449 :libload internal-name libname
4450 :libunload internal-name
4451 :liblist
4452 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4453 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4454 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
44556 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4456
4457
4458Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000044599 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4460 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4461 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4462 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4463 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044648 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4465 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4466 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004467 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004468 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000044697 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4470 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4471 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044728 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
44738 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4474 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044757 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4476 window for each tag.
44777 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
44787 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4479 bottom" search message.
44807 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4481 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4482 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004483- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4484- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004485- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4486 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4487 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044887 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4489 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4490 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4491 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
44927 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4493 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4494 :tagargs clear
4495 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4496 matching).
44977 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4498 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4499 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4500 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
45017 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4502 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
45037 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4504 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4505 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004506
4507
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004508Win32 GUI:
45098 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4510 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045117 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4512 (Mike McCollister)
45138 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4514 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4515 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4516 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4517 common part of the path.
45188 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
45198 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4520 gettext and menus work.
45218 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4522 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004523 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004524 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
45258 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4526 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
45278 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4528 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
45297 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4530 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
45317 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
45327 <Esc> should close a dialog.
45337 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4534 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4535 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4536 prompts.
45377 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4538 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4539 the file added into an already running Vim.
45407 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4541 functions to find the window title.
4542
4543
4544GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020045458 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004546- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4547 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
45487 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
45498 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
45506 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
45518 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4552 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
45539 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
45547 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
45558 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4556 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
45578 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4558 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4559 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
45608 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4561 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
45628 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4563 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4564 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4565 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045667 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
45678 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4568 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000045697 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4570 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4571 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045728 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
45738 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004574 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045758 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
45768 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
45778 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4578 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4579 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
45807 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4581 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4582 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
45837 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4584 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
45857 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4586 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4587 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4588 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045897 Should support multi-column menus.
4590- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4591 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4592- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
45938 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
45946 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4595 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
45967 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
45977 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4598 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4599 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
46007 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
46018 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4602 name can be chosen free.
46037 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4604 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
46056 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4606 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4607 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4608 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4609 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4610 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4611 things.
46127 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4613 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046147 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004615 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004616- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4617 where it was started from?
46187 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4619
4620
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004621Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020046229 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4623 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004624- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046258 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4626 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4627 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4628 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
46298 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4630 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000046317 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4632 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4633 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4634 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000046357 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046368 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4637 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046388 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4639 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4640 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046417 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4642 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4643 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046448 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4645 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4646 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046478 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4648 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046498 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046506 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4651 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046527 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046537 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004654 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4655 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4656 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046575 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4658 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4659 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
46607 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4661 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4662 file.
46638 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4664 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4665 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004666- Add events to autocommands:
4667 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004668 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004669 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4670 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004671 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004672 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004673 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4674 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4675 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4676 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004677 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004678 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4679 the char.
4680 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4681 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4682 file from CVS).
4683 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4684 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4685 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4686 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4687 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4688 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004689 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4690 changes.
4691 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4692 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004693- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004694 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004695 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004696 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4697 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4698 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4699 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4700 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4701
4702
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004703Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004704- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4705 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004706- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4707 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4708 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4709 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4710 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004711- Ideas from others:
4712 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4713 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4714 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4715 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4716 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4717 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4718 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4719 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4720 Uses Perl for C++.
4721 Uses ctags to find the info:
4722 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4723 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4724 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4725 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4726 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4727 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004728 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004729 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4730- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4731
4732
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004733Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004734- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000047357 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4736 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047377 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4738 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4739 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047408 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4741 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
47429 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4743 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4744 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047458 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4746 - ignore/match case
4747 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047488 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4749 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4750 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4751 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4752 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4753 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047548 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000047557 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4756 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047578 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4758 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4759 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4760 Should work for C++ and Java.
4761 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
47627 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
47637 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4764 instead of words.
47658 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
47668 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4767 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
47688 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4769 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004770- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4771 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004772- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4773 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4774 wildcards in the file name)?
4775- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4776- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4777- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4778 be in another file).
4779- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4780- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4781- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4782 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4783- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4784- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4785- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004786- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4787
4788
4789Command line editing:
47907 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4791 line.
47928 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4793 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4794 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4795- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4796 lines wraps to start of line).
4797- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4798 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4799 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4800 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4801 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4802 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4803 cmdwin does now already.
4804 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4805 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4806 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4807 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4808 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4809 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4810 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4811 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4812 Problems:
4813 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4814 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4815 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4816 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4817 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4818 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4819 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4820 character in first column?
4821 - Implementation ideas:
4822 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4823 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4824 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4825 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4826 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4827 Mode.
4828
4829
4830Command line completion:
48318 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
48328 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4833 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
48348 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4835 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048368 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4837 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048387 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4839 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004840- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4841- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4842 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048438 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4844 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
48457 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4846 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4847- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4848 identifiers (Webb).
48498 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4850 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
48517 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4852 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4853- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4854 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4855- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4856 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4857 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004858
4859
4860Command line history:
4861- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4862 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4863 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004864 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004865- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4866 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4867
4868
4869Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000048709 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4871 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4872 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048738 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4874 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4875 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4876 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4877 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048788 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4879 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4880 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048817 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4882 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004883- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048847 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4885 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4886- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4887 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4888 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4889 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4890 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4891 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4892- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4893 Normal mode.
4894- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4895 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4896 are used.
4897- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4898- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4899- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4900
4901
4902'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010049039 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4904 char * veryLongName =
4905 "very long string"
4906 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049078 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049088 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4909 long_type foo =
4910 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049118 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4912 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004913 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049148 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4915 func(
4916 new String[] {
4917 "asdf",
4918 "asdf"
4919 }
4920 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049218 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4922 (Chow Loong Jin)
4923 namespace {
4924 int
4925 func(int arg) {
4926 }
4927 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049286 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4929 func( arg1
4930 , arg2
4931 , arg3
4932 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000049337 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004934 func(
4935 int x) // indent like "(4"
4936 {
4937 if (a
4938 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049399 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4940 if (a)
4941 {
4942 if (b)
4943 {
4944 // {
4945 }
4946 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004947 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4948 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4949 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004950- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004951 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
49527 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4953- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4954 line).
4955- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4956- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4957 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004958- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4959 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4960- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4961 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4962- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4963- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4964 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
49658 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4966 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4967 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4968- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4969- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4970 lines start with "\item".
4971- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4972 /* here is a comment that
4973 is just autoindented, and
4974 nothing else */
4975- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
49767 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4977 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4978 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004979 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004980
4981
4982Java:
49838 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4984 Odendahl?
49858 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4986 "[i" commands and friends.
4987- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4988 (Jason)
4989- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4990 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4991
4992
4993'comments':
49948 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4995 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4996 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4997 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004998 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4999 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050007 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5001 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
50027 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
50036 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5004 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5005 regexp is used.
50068 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5007 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5008
5009
5010Virtual edit:
50118 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050127 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5013
5014
5015Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050168 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050178 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000050188 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005019 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000050208 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5021 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005022 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5023 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000050248 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050258 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5026 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050278 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5028 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5029 the end of the line or before a ".".
50307 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5031 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
50327 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5033 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050346 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
50355 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5036 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5037 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5038 cursor is on.
5039
5040
5041Select mode:
50428 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5043 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
50447 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005045 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050467 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5047 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5048 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5049 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5050 normal_cmd().
5051 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5052 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5053
5054
5055Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020050568 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5057 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005058- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5059 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5060 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005061- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5062 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5063 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050648 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005065 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005066 where needed.
50677 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5068 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
50697 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5070 of each selected line.
50718 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
50728 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5073 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5074 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
50758 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5076 Ben Godfrey)
50777 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5078 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
50797 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5080 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050817 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005082 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005083 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
50848 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5085 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
50867 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5087 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5088 option!
50897 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5090 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5091 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5092 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5093 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5094 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5095 without changing the column.
50966 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050977 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5098 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050996 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5100 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
51016 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051026 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005103 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005104 or other special character.
51056 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5106
5107
5108More advanced repeating commands:
5109- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005110- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005111- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005112 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5113 "y." will repeat last yank.
5114 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5115 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5116 and/or pick an older command.
5117- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5118
5119
5120Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051218 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5122 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5123 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
51248 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
51257 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5126 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051278 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5128 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
51298 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000051307 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051318 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5132 entering search strings.
51338 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5134 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5135 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051368 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5137 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051387 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051397 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5140 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051416 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5142 abbreviations are to be used.
5143- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5144 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5145 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005146- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5147 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5148 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5149 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5150 Or implicit:
5151 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005152- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5153 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5154 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005155- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5156 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5157- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5158 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
51596 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5160 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5161 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5162 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005163- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5164 non-replace Insert mode?
5165- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005166- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5167- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5168 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5169- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005170 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005171- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5172 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5173- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5174- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5175 ":freekeys".
5176- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5177
5178
5179Incsearch:
5180- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
5181- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5182 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5183 up every time.
5184- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5185 folds when going to another line.
5186- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5187 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5188 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5189 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005190
5191
5192Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010051939 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000051948 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005195 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005196 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005197 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005198 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051999 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5200 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052018 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5202 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000052038 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5204 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5205 Perl does it this way:
5206 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5207 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5208 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5209 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052108 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5211 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5212 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000052137 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5214 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000052158 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5216 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000052177 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005218 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5219 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5220 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000052217 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005222 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052237 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5224 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052258 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5226 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
52278 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5228 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020052297 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005230 example.
52318 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5232 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5233- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5234 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5235 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5236 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052378 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5238 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5239 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
52407 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5241 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000052427 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5243 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052448 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5245 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052468 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5247 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052488 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5249 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5250 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5251 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005252- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5253 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005254- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5255 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5256- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5257 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5258 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5259 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052608 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5261 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005262- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5263 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052648 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5265 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5266 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005267- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5268 i ignore case
5269 I use case
5270 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5271 v use Vi regexp syntax
5272 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5273 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5274 Perl uses these too:
5275 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5276 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5277 o compile only once (Perl only)
5278 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5279 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5280 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5281 following command.
5282 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5283- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5284 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5285 for search string)?
52867 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5287 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5288- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5289 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5290- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5291 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5292- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5293- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005294 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005295 a for the next file in the argument list
5296 f for file in the buffer list
5297 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005298 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5299 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005300 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5301 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5302- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053037 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005304 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053057 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5306 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5307 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5308 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
53096 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5310 effects.
53117 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5312 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5313 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000053147 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005315 Also ":dselect".
5316
5317
5318Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010053199 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5320 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5321 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053229 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5323 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020053248 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5325 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053268 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5327 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5328 timestamp?
5329 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5330 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005331- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5332 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005333- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5334 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5335 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
53368 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5337 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5338 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5339 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
53408 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5341 only remember the lines that really changed.
53427 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5343 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5344 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5345 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005346- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5347 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5348- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5349 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5350- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5351 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5352 [-99].
5353- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5354- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005355- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5356 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5357
5358
5359Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053607 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5361 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5362 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5363 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
53648 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5365 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
53668 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5367 inode too.
53687 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005369 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5370 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053717 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5372 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5373- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5374 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5375- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5376 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
53777 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5378 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
53797 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5380 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
53818 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053827 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5383 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010053848 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5385 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5386 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005387
5388
5389Swap (.swp) files:
53908 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5391 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5392 there are short file name problems.
53938 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5394 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
53958 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
53968 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005397 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005398 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5399 file the same as the actual file?
5400 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054017 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5402 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
54037 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005404 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005405 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5406 enough room.
54077 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5408 or /var/preserve.
5409- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5410 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5411- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005412 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005413- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5414 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5415 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5416 cached list of which line is where.
5417
5418
5419Viminfo:
54207 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5421 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5422 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000054238 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5424 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5425 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054268 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5427 name. (Schild)
54288 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
54298 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054308 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054318 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5432 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5433 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5434 this?
54357 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
54367 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5437 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
54386 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5439 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5440 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5441- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5442 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5443
5444
5445Modelines:
54468 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5447 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5448 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005449- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5450 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5451 'shiftwidth'.
5452- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5453 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005454- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5455 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5456 modeline setting.
5457- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5458 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5459- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5460 .cpp files.
5461- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5462 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5463- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5464 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5465
5466
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005467Sessions:
54688 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5469 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
54707 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5471 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054728 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5473 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054748 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5475 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5476 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000054777 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5478 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000054797 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005480
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005481
5482Options:
54837 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5484 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054858 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5486 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5487 also be supported.
54888 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5489 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5490 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
54917 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
54927 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
5493 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01005494 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005495
5496
5497External commands:
54988 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5499 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
55004 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5501 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5502 -f).
55034 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
55044 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5505 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
55064 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5507
5508
5509Multiple Windows:
55107 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
55118 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5512 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
55137 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5514 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5515 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000055167 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5517 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000055187 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5519 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055206 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5521 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005522 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005523 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
55247 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5525 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5526 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5527 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5528- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5529 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5530 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5531 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5532
5533
5534Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055358 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055368 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5537 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000055388 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 +000055398 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5540 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
55418 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5542 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5543 the mark was set.
55447 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5545 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5546 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5547 ":browse marks"?
55486 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055497 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5550 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
55517 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5552 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
55537 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5554 command).
55557 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5556 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5557 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5558 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
55595 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5560 mappings.
55616 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5562 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5563 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5564
5565
5566Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020055677 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005568 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005569- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5570 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000055718 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055727 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5573 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5574
5575
5576Writing files:
5577- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5578 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5579 shortname conversion.
55808 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
55818 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5582 file.
55838 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5584 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5585 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055866 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5587 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
55886 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5589 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
55906 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5591 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000055928 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005593 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
55947 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5595 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
55967 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5597 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5598 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5599 waiting for a character to be typed).
56008 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5601 line of the window, like "[time]".
5602 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5603 Automatic and/or with a command.
5604
5605
5606Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000056078 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5608 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000056098 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005610 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5611- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5612- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
56138 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5614 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005615- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005616 :s///N substitutes N times.
5617- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5618 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5619 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
56207 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5621 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5622 last line column 5.
56235 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5624 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5625 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5626 (Stanislav Sitar)
5627
5628
5629Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056308 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
56317 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
56328 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5633 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5634 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005635- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5636- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5637 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5638- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5639- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5640
5641
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005642Argument list:
56436 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5644 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5645 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
56466 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5647
5648
5649Registers:
56508 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056518 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5652 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5653 for every line.
56546 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5655 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5656 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5657- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5658 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5659- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5660 leader when line wraps?
5661- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5662 line in the range.
5663- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5664 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
56658 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5666 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005667
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005668
5669Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056708 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000056718 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056727 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
56737 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5674
5675
5676Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000056777 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5678 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5679 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5680 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5681 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5682 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5683 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005684 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000056857 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5686 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000056877 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5688 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056898 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5690 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056917 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5692 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5693 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005694- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005695 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056967 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5697 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010056987 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5699 window as a buffer-tab selection.
57008 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057017 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5702 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
57038 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5704 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057056 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057068 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5707 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5708 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5709 in this Vim.
57108 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005711 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057128 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5713 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5714 have it apply to the following command.
57158 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5716 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5717 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5718 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057197 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5720 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057217 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5722 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5723 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5724 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057256 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
57268 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
57279 Support ACLs on more systems.
57287 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5729 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057307 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5731 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5732 (truncated to fit in the space).
57337 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
57348 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
57358 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5736 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000057377 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005738 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
57397 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5740 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057417 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057427 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
57437 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057448 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
57458 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5746 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5747 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5748 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
57498 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057508 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057518 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5752 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5753 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5754 does something like this. (Shah)
57557 Use growarray for replace stack.
57567 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5757 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
57583 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057597 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5760 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057617 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5762 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005763- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5764- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5765- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5766- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
57677 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5768 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5769- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5770 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005771- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005772- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5773 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5774- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5775 call "play newbeep.au").
5776- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5777 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5778 (Bhatt).
5779- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5780 blockwise registers).
5781- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5782 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5783- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5784 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5785 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5786 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005787- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057887 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5789 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5790- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5791 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5792 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5793 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5794 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000057958 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5796 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057978 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5798 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5799 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5800 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5801 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5802- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005803- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058047 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5805 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5806- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5807 not in column 1.
58086 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5809 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
58107 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5811- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005812- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005813 :redir #> bufname
5814 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005815- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5816 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005817- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5818 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5819 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
58206 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5821 console? (Klaus Hast)
5822- Add :delcr command:
5823 *:delcr*
5824 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5825 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5826 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5827 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5828 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5829 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5830- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5831- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5832 characters from 'isprint'.
5833- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5834- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5835 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5836- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5837 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5838 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5839- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5840- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5841 Nvi).
5842- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5843 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
58447 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5845- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5846 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
58476 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5848- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5849 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5850 macro).
5851- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005852- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5853 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5854- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
58558 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005856- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5857- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5858- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5859 if it is not the first or last window.
5860- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5861 there is one) instead of the file itself.
58627 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5863 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5864 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5865- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5866- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005867 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005868 many percent down the windows).
5869- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5870 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5871 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005872 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005873- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5874 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5875- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5876 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5877- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5878- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5879- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5880 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058818 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5882 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5883 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5884 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5885 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005886- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5887 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5888- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005889 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5890- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005891 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5892 (Webb).
5893- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005894 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005895- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5896 hex codes like 0xff).
5897- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5898 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5899 the last TYPED command.
5900- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5901- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5902- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5903 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005904- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059058 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5906 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5907 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02005908- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005909 trailing '.'.
5910- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5911 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5912 find_file_in_path().
5913- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5914 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5915- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5916- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5917 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5918- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005919 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005920- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5921 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5922 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005923- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5924- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5925- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5926 to the minimal size.
5927- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5928- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5929- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5930- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5931- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005932- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5933 entered)?
5934- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5935 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005936- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005937- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5938- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5939- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5940- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5941- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5942 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005943- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059448 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5945 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5946 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5947 or in octal.
59487 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5949 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005950- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005951 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5952- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5953- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5954 insert line command).
5955- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5956- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5957- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5958- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5959- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5960 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005961- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005962 yet.
5963- Implement 'redraw' option.
5964- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5965 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059667 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5967 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005968 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5969 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059708 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5971 do it.
5972- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5973- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5974 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5975- Add text justification option.
5976- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5977- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5978 off".
5979- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5980- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5981- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005982 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005983- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005984- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005985- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5986 commands.
5987- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5988- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5989- :table command (Webb)
5990- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005991- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5992- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5993- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5994- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5995- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5996 (Demirel).
5997- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5998- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5999 for use in macro's and the like.
6000- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006001 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006002- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006003 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006004- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006005 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006006 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6007- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6008 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006009- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006010 mkopttab to make option table?
6011- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6012 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6013- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6014 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006015- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006016 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6017- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6018 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006019- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000060208 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6021 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6022 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6023 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6024 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060258 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6026 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6027 (Netherton)
60286 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6029 space after "(", for example.
60305 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6031 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6032 (Servatius Brandt)
6033
6034
6035From Elvis:
6036- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6037- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006038- Search patterns:
6039 \@ match word under cursor.
6040 but do:
6041 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6042 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
60438 ":window" command:
6044 :win + next window (up)
6045 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6046 :win - previous window (down)
6047 :win -- idem, wrapping
6048 :win nr to window number "nr"
6049 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
60507 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6051 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6052
6053
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006054From xvi:
6055- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6056- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6057
6058
6059From vile:
6060- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6061- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6062 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6063
6064
6065Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006066- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6067 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006068 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006069 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6070 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006071- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6072 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6073- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6074 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6075 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6076 current layout mirrored.
6077- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6078- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6079 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6080- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6081- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6082 font in each top-level window.
6083- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6084- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6085- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6086- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6087 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006088- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6089 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6090- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6091 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
60924 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6093 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6094 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6095 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006096 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006097 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6098 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6099- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6100 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6101 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6102
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006103vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
6104vim: set fo+=n :