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Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2011 Dec 14
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020037Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010038
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020039Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
40
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010041Patch to fix "Console prompts fail to reset the console pager".
42Issue 14 on googlecode
43
44Issue 33 on googlecode: feedkeys() leaks memory.
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020045
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020046Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
47Needs more work.
48
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010049Once syntax and other runtime files have been fixed: add "set cp" to
50check.vim. Use a function to run both with 'cp' and 'nocp'.
51
52Patch to make ":helpgrep" work with non-UTF-8 encoding. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto,
532011 Nov 28, update later that day)
54
55":doau" says it triggers modeline. Should this only happen for events used
56when loading a buffer? (Kana Natsuno, 2011 Nov 7)
57
58Patch to fix "it" and "at" when there is a dash in the tag name.
59(Christian Brabandt, 2011 Nov 20)
60
61Patch to make 'shcf' default work better. (Benjamin Fritz, 2011 Nov 18)
62 Win32: When 'shell' is cmd.exe this command fails:
63 echo system('"c:/path/echo.exe" "foo bar"')
64 Should we set the default for 'shellxquote' to a double quote, when 'shell'
65 contains "cmd" in the tail? (Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Oct 13)
66 Also set 'shellcmdflag' to include /s.
67
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020068Other way to start Mzscheme. Tim Brown, 2011 Oct 5: change main call.
69Later patch by Sergey Khorev, 2011 Oct 9.
70
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010071Patch to make InsertCharPre work better. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 21)
72
73Patch to fix closed folds with "loadview". (Xavier de Gaye, 2011 Nov 25)
74
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020075Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
76Or use expand('<sid>')?
77
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020078Patch for glob() returning a list. (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 24, second
79one)
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020080
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020081Patch to highlight cursor line number. (Howard Buchholz (lhb), 2011 Oct 18)
82
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010083Patch for urxvt mouse support after shell command. (Issue 31)
84
857 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
86 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
87 side effect.
88Patch by Kana Natsuno, 2011 Nov 12.
89
90Patch for option in 'cino' to specify more indent for continued conditions.
91(Lech Lorens, 2011 Nov 27)
92Isn't this already possible?
93
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020094Docs fix for v:register. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Sep 26, 27)
95v:register doesn't work exactly as expected. (David Fishburn, 2011 Sep 20)
96
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020097Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 22)
98- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
99 below/above).
100
101Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 24, updated patch)
1028 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
103 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
104
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200105Patch to add "onselected" callback for completion. (Taro Muraoka, 2011 Sep 24)
106
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100107":tab drop buffer.c" always opens a new tab, also if buffer.c is already in an
108open window. (Herb Sitz, 2011 Nov 17)
109
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200110Problem with winfixheight and resizing. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Sep 17)
111Patch Sep 18.
112
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200113Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
114And one for gui_x11.txt.
115
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200116Problem with l: dictionary being locked in a function. (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200117
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200118Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
119they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
120
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100121Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
122Nov 20)
123
124`[ moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
125(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
126
127Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
128
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200129Updated syntax file for ssh_config, maintainer doesn't respond.
130(Leonard Ehrenfried, 2011 Sep 26)
131
132"fC" doesn't position the cursor correctly when there are concealed
133characters. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Oct 11)
134
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100135Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
136Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
137
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200138'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
139'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
140Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200141Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200142
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200143With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
144(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
145need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
146
147Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
148only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
14921, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
150
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100151Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
152New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
153
154Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
155Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
156
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200157Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200158
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100159"2" in 'formatopions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
160Oct 26)
161
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200162Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
163
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200164With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
165register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200166
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200167In GTK Gvim, setting 'lines' and 'columns' to 99999 causes a crash (Tony
168Mechelynck, 2011 Apr 25). Can reproduce the crash sometimes:
169 gvim -N -u NONE --cmd 'set lines=99999 columns=99999'
170(gvim:25968): Gdk-WARNING **: Native Windows wider or taller than 65535 pixels are not supported
171The program 'gvim' received an X Window System error.
172This probably reflects a bug in the program.
173The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
174 (Details: serial 313 error_code 161 request_code 149 minor_code 8)
175 (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
176 that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
177 To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
178 option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
179 backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
180Check that number of pixels doesn't go above 65535?
181
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200182popup completion menu closes quickly when there is a fold in the buffer. (Jan
183Christoph Ebersbach, 2011 Jul 3)
184
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200185Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
186
187This line hangs Vim, because of syntax HL:
188call append(line, "INFO ....12....18....24....30....36....42....48....54....60....66....72....78%$")
189
190When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
191(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
192
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100193Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
194Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
195
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200196Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
197
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200198Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
199doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
200Jun 17)
201
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200202Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
203":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
20415)
205
206Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
207
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200208Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
209
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200210On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
21164 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
212right type.
213
214string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
215(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
216
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200217Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
218
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200219When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
220(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
221
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200222When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
223doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
224
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002257 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
226Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
227
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200228maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
229mapping, how to restore the script ID?
230
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200231Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
232(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
233
234Highlighting stops working after changing it many times. Script to reproduce
235it: Pablo Contreras, 2010 Oct 12 Windows XP and 7. Font is never freed?
236
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200237When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
238indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
239the help file.
240
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200241After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
242Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
243
244Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
245
246"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
247
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200248Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
24930)
250
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200251Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
252May 24) Update May 26.
253
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200254When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
255following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
256(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
257
258Problem with "syn sync gouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
259
260Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
2612010 Dec 18)
262
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200263With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
264number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
265Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
266
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002678 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
268Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
269
2708 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
271 after typing something.
272Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
273function that resets did_cursorhold.
274Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
275
2767 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
277Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
278Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
279
2809 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
281 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
282Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
283
284Patch to fix \%V item in regexp. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Nov 8)
285Update Nov 19. James Vega: still not right. Christian: it's difficult.
286
287Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
288Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
289
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200290In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
291or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
292sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
293
294GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
295doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
296
297GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
298
299Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
300Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
301
302Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
303
3047.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
305there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
306do?
307
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200308Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
30922)
310
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100311New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
312- move compflags to separate growarray?
313- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*", '+'. What would be
314 the maximum repeat for * and +?
315
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100316"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
3172011 Feb 27)
318
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200319Copy/paste between Vim and Google chrome doesn't work well for multi-byte
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200320characters. (Ben Haskell, 2010 Sep 17)
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200321When putting text in the cut buffer (when exiting) and conversion doesn't work
322properly, Prepend "ENC==={value of 'enc'}:" to the text and don't convert?
323Then it should at least work from Vim to Vim and in other applications it's
324clear why it doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200325
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200326Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
327^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
328
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100329When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
330exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
3319) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
332
333g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
334the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
335
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100336Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
337crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
338
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100339Python: Adding line to buffer other than the current one doesn't work
340correctly. (Rozbujnik, 2010 Dec 19)
341
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200342Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
343names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
344Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
345the system encoding (usually utf-8).
346
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200347Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
348Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
349
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200350'beval' option should be global-local.
351
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100352Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200353
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200354setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200355
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02003567 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
357 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
358 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
359
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200360getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
361element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
362Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Check that new argument is optional
363and that it's documented.
364
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200365With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
3662010 Oct 24)
367
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100368Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
369Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
370
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200371Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
372
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200373When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
374Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
375
Bram Moolenaardc685ab2010-08-13 21:16:49 +0200376Test 73 fails on MS-Windows when compiled with DJGPP and run twice. How to
377delete the Xfind directory? Add an rmdir() function, just like we have
378mkdir().
379
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200380":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
381
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200382'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
383
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100384When 'paste' is changed with 'pastetoggle', the ruler doesn't reflect this
385right away. (Samuel Ferencik, 2010 Dec 7)
386
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200387Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
388
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100389Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
390gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
391
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200392":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
393accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
394
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200395Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
396setwinvar().
397
Bram Moolenaar9de99972010-08-09 22:33:06 +0200398Echo starts in the wrong column:
399 while 1 | let s = input('A') | echo 'R' | endw
400(Boyko Bantchev, 2010 Aug 9)
401
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100402Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
403
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100404When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
405(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
406
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200407Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200408(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200409
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200410When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
411instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
412
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100413Crash in setqflist(). (Benoit Mortgat, 2010 Nov 18)
414
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200415Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
416Winckler, 2011 May 11)
417Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100418
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100419Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
420back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
421
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100422Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
423one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
424Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 17. Needs test.
425
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100426Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200427Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
428
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100429CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
430the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
431FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
432
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200433Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
434Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
435
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200436Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
437Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
438
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100439I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
440Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
441an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100442
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200443Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
444
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100445Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
446non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100447
448iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
449Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
450or replace with a character and continue?
451
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100452Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
453Requires configure check for localtime().
454Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
455
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100456Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
457Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
458path.
459
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100460Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
461Dominique can't reproduc it.
462
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200463":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
464like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
465
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100466Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200467Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
468
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100469Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
4702010 Nov 5)
471
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100472Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
473Jan 7)
474
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200475When setting 'undofile' while the file is already loaded, but unchanged, try
476to read the undo file. Requires computing a checksum of the text. (Andy
477Wokula)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100478
479Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
480Only with "vim -u NONE".
481
482Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
483
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100484With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
485entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
486Feb 12)
487
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200488Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
489characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
490
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100491Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
492
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200493Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
494 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
495
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200496Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert
497mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg)
498Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100499
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200500Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce
501it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274.
502(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27)
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100503Generally, folding with 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to
504find out why.
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200505
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200506Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
507
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200508When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
509Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
510
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100511Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file. Works OK for
512echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar 17)
513
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100514When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
515not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
516string value.
517
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200518":e ~br<Tab>" does not complete to ":e /home/bram/". Would need to use
519getpwent() to find all the matches.
520
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100521Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
522
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100523For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
524line argument -noregister.
525
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100526When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
527missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
528
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200529When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
530doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100531
532Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
533(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
534Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
535There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
536Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
537
538":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
539highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
540to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
541
542Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
543Probably needs a bit of work.
544
545List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
546Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
547
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200548Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
549
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100550Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
551
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200552Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
553Sep 1)
554
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +0200555Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
556on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
557
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100558Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
5592009 Jul 18)
560
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100561Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
562Added test, updates, June 23.
563
564Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
565window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
566Needs more work.
567
568Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
569
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100570When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
571few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
572
573'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
574(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
575
576Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
577J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
578
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200579When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
580for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
581
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200582Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
583
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200584Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
585
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100586When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
587
588":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
589because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
590ex_docmd.c.
591
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200592Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100593Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
594
595string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
596for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
597
598Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
599
600'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
60120)
602
603Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
604And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
60523)
606
607Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
6082009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
609
610Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
611
612Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
613SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
614
615When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
616cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
617
618When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
619indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
620(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
621
622Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
623are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
624Ignore window options when not in the right window?
625Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
626that doesn't have a window.
627
628When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
629doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
630
631getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
632displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
633
634":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
635
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100636There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
637was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
638perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
639
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +0200640Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
641
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200642Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
643file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
644system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
645
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100646Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
647work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
648Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
649
650Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
651
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100652Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
653command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
654
655Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
656
657Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
658does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
659
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200660opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
661height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +0200662very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200663
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100664Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
665(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
666
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100667Session file generates error upon loading, cause bu --remote-silent-tab.
668(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
669
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100670Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
671char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
672
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100673A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (Zyx, 2010 Dec 25)
674
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100675Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
676messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
677es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
6782009 Jan 26)
679
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100680When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100681in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
682Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
683
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100684Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
685a modeline.
686
687Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
688Sergey Khorev)
689
690Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
691part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000692
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000693netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
694number to be below last visible line.
695
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100696After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
697correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
698
699Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
700(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
701
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100702shellescape() depends on 'shellshash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
703'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
704Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
705unix-like shell?
706
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100707Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
708that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
709
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200710Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
711register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
712(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
713
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100714Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
715Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
716
717Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
718make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
719
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100720When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
721still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
722
723"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
724(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
725
726Update src/testdir/main.aap.
727
728"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
729
730Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
731that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
732ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
733Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
734
735Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
736
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000737Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
738
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100739MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
740doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
741probably causes this.
742
743'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02007442009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100745
746Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
747 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
748 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
749(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
750
751Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
752":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
753option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
754is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000755
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100756":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
757first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000758
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000759Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
760laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
761Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000762
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100763Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
764anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
765
766On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
767doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
768Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
769Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
770
771":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
772
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000773When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
774'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
775fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
776the buffer to be unmodified.
777Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
778another look at it.
779
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100780Patch for c.vim and cpp.vim syntax files. (Chung-chieh Shan, 2008 Nov 26)
781
782c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
783(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
784
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100785You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
786error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
787Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
788at the other match for 0xBF.
789
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000790Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000791
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100792When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
793argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
794
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000795Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
796backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
797
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200798Win32: bold font doesn't work when 'guifontwide' has been set. (Yue Wu, 2010
799Aug 23)
800
801When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
802line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
803
804Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
805position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
806
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000807After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
808(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000809command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000810
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000811":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
812Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
813
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100814Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
815Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
816
817When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
818either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
819put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
820
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000821Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
822Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
823Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
824Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
825(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
826
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100827Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
828
829ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000830
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000831Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
832(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
833escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
834an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000835This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
836July 7)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000837
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000838Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
8392008 May 14)
840
841Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
842Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
843'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
844
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100845Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
846Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
847
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000848Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
849Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
850
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100851Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
852
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000853The utf class table is missing some entries:
854 0x2212, minus sign
855 0x2217, star
856 0x2500, bar
857 0x26ab, circle
858
859Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
860line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
861
862GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
863Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
864
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100865Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
866try the Cocoa version.
867
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000868Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
869changed or the window is resized.
870
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100871GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
872the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
873
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000874Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
875Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000876
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000877Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
8781) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
879
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000880C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
881with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
882Try to reproduce at work.
883
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100884Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
885Is there a way to list all the files first?
886
887When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
888result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
88916)
890
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200891Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
892Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
893
894Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
895(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
896
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000897Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
898Await response to question to make the register writable.
899
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100900src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
901remark why.
902
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000903Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
9041)
905
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100906In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
907each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
908
909try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
910
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100911try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
912
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100913":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
914Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
915
916":tab drop filename" doesn't work nicely when "filename" is open in a window
917in another tab. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Feb 13)
918
919Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
920
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000921Including NFA regexp code:
922Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
923Useful in tests.
924Performance tests:
925- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
926- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
927- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100928- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000929- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
930 'hlsearch'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000931
932Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
933Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
934
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000935Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
936Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
937Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000938
939C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
940(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
941
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100942Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
943":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200944Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100945
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000946When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
947and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
948
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000949Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
950 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
951
952New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
953
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200954":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
955a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
956
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000957'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
958Likonen, March 19)
959
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100960Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
961other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
962
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000963The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
964appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
965matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
966
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100967When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
968character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
969'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
970(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
971
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000972Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
973Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000974
975More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
976
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200977Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
978http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
979
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000980Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
981back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
982Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000983
984Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
985No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
986
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000987Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
988terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000989
990Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
991
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000992Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
993but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
994that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000995
996When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
997
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100998Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
999Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1000
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001001Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1002popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1003size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1004This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1005
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001006Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1007a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1008isn't right?
1009
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001010When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1011it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1012
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001013Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1014then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1015files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001016Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1017indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1018":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
1019in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
1020quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
1021Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001022
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001023When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1024parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1025neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1026particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1027Jun 3)
1028However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1029the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001030
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001031A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1032Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1033
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001034Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1035Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1036
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001037Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1038switch list is noticed:
1039 switch (i)
1040 {
1041 case 1:
1042 foobar:
1043 }
1044
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001045Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1046
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001047Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1048with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1049go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1050moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1051
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001052Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001053Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010010548 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1055 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1056 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001057
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001058Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1059(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1060
1061Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1062makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1063.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1064 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1065
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001066Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
10672007 Feb 8)
1068
1069Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
1070 Sutcliffe says it works well.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001071 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001072 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
1073
1074Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1075set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001076
1077Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1078
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001079Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1080
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001081Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1082Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1083New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1084patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1085
1086Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1087Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1088
1089Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
1090Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
1091Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
1092
1093Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1094
1095Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
10962007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001097Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001098
1099Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001100label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1101
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001102Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1103with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1104Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001105
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001106Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1107pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
1108
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001109Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1110
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001111Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001112Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001113Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
1114
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001115Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1116Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1117only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1118
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001119Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
1120Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
1121
1122Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1123Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
1124Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
1125properly?
1126
1127Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
11282007 Jun 21)
1129
1130When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1131Jun 18)
1132
1133If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1134
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001135Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1136windows. (Adam George)
1137
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001138F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1139modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1140K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001141
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001142UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1143to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1144
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001145In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1146the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1147
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001148C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1149
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001150":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1151
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001152When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001153error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001154
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001155Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1156use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1157
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001158Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1159if_ruby.c.
1160
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001161":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1162
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001163Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
1164Needs more work.
1165
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001166The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1167it in keep_msg?
1168
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001169Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001170error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001171name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1172
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001173Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1174longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001175
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001176Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1177Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1178Also for ":w" without a file name.
1179The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001180
1181"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1182Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1183
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001184VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1185directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1186(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1187
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001188VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1189
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001190input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1191name?
1192
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001193Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1194
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001195When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1196(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1197Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1198will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1199
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001200gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1201This also fails with --remote.
1202
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001203When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
12042008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1205all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1206
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001207":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
1208Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
1209
1210aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1211
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001212When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1213(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1214
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001215Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1216the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1217
1218Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001219Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1220Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1221argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001222(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001223
1224GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1225
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001226Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1227superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1228
1229Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1230character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1231
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001232Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1233Jun 5)
1234
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001235Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
12362008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1237Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1238
1239In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1240but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1241Jul 22)
1242
1243There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1244
1245Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1246":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1247somehow? Or use a new function.
1248
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001249Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1250
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001251Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
1252that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001253
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001254Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1255moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1256that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1257
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001258The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1259
1260Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1261loading all files.
1262
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001263Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
1264line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
1265after starting up?
1266
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001267When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001268cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1269the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1270
1271Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1272has been created.
1273
1274Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1275shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1276fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1277background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1278A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001279
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001280These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1281 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1282 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1283 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1284
1285Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1286partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1287
1288In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1289buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1290reload it then?
1291
1292New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1293previous version.
1294
1295For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1296
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001297Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1298only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1299
1300Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1301tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1302doesn't contain other directories.
1303
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001304Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1305 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1306 set background=dark
1307This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1308color is, not reset it.
1309
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001310Linux distributions:
1311- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1312 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1313 xfree-xterm".
1314- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1315
1316Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1317start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1318show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1319middle?
1320
1321When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001322(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001323connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1324dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1325
1326Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1327
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001328When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1329current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1330the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1331
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001332When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1333Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1334
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001335Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1336 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1337 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1338 - getting colors in xterm
1339 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1340
1341Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1342Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1343
1344Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1345
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001346A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1347Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1348
1349Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1350Dara, 2006 June 21)
1351
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001352Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1353number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1354
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001355After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1356the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1357
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001358Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
1359Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
1360about this.
1361
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001362Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1363copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1364error and stop using the connection to the server.
1365
1366Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1367Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1368
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001369Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010013702008 Sep 29)
1371
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001372In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1373check the result of has("patch13").
1374
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001375Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1376restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1377
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001378Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1379and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1380
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001381Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1382put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1383
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001384Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1385resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1386
1387In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1388can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1389
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001390Completion menu disappears when using 'cursorcolumn'. (Sven-Hendrik Haase,
13912011 May 23)
1392
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001393GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1394maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1395doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001396Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1397visible.
1398
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001399When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1400differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001401
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001402The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1403be only one.
1404
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001405"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1406script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1407
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001408It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1409the function name before resolving it to a number?
1410 let d = {}
1411 fun! d.foo()
1412 echo "here"
1413 endfun
1414 call d.foo(9)
1415
1416Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1417only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001418Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1419used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1420
1421Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1422output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1423Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1424
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001425Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001426"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1427name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1428Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001429
1430Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1431(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1432
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001433Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1434as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1435
1436Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1437Jan 1)
1438
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001439Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
144023)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001441
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001442":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1443tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1444Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001445
1446xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1447buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1448Xterm 224 supports it!
1449
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001450When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1451text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1452latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1453
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001454Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1455
1456Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1457no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1458
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001459In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1460VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
14612007 Oct 16)
1462
1463TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1464Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1465
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001466Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001467
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001468When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1469typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1470Sep 3, 11)
1471
1472When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1473respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1474the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1475what happens for the GUI.
1476
1477X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1478pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1479clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1480Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1481Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1482clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1483
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001484":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1485this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1486
1487When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1488Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1489restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1490
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001491Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
14922010 Jun 30)
1493
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001494
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001495At next release:
1496- Rename src/Makefile and create a new one like toplevel Makefile that
1497 creates auto/config.mk when it's not there? (Ben Schmidt, 2011 Feb 11)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001498- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
1499 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001500
1501
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001502More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001503- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1504 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001505- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1506- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1507 21)
1508- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1509 patch May 10)
1510- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1511 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1512- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1513 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1514- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1515- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1516- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1517 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1518 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001519- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001520- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1521 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1522- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1523 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1524- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1525 21)
1526- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1527 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1528- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1529 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001530- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1531 Sep 13)
1532- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1533 Docs patch Oct 30)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001534- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1535 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1536 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1537 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1538 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar4d32c2d2010-07-18 22:10:01 +02001539- Patch to access screen under Python. (Marko Mahni, 2010 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001540- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001541
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001542Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000015439 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1544 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1545 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1546 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1547 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1548 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1549 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1550 (Alan Schmitt)
1551 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001552 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1553 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000015549 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001555 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000015568 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015578 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001558 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015597 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1560 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1561 How does this work? Missing comments.
1562- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001563 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001564 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001565 More recent version: https://retracile.net/wiki/VimBreakIndent
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001566 Posted to vim-dev by Taylor Hedberg, 2011 Nov 25
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015678 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001568 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015697 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1570 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1571- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1572 for multi-byte characters.
1573- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1574- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1575 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1576 been given values.
1577 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
15788 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001579 with an ESC sequence.
1580 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1581 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1582 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015837 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1584 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1585- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1586 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1587 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
15888 Add functions:
1589 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1590 Update 2004 Sep 10
1591 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1592 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001593 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001594 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001595 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1596 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001597 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1598 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1599 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1600 (2003 May 13)
1601 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1602 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001603 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1604 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001605 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1606 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1607 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016087 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1609 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1610- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1611 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
16127 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1613 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000016148 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1615 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016167 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
16178 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1618 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
16197 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1620 Kotchan has a patch for it)
16218 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1622 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1623 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
16247 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1625- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1626 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1627 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001628- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1629 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1630- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1631
1632
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001633Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001634- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1635 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016368 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1637 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1638 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1639 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1640 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1641 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016428 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1643 make Vim exit.
16447 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1645 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1646 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
16478 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1648 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1649 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
16506 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1651 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1652 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
16538 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1654 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1655 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1656 names in one buffer???
1657 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1658 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1659 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
16607 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1661 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1662 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001663 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1664 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016657 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1666 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
16677 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
16687 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
16697 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1670 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
16717 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1672 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1673 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1674 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
16757 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
16767 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
16777 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1678 to the match with the tag? Option?
16797 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
16807 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1681 (Sayre).
16827 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1683 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016847 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1685 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1686 match. Nvi can do it too.
16877 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1688 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1689 line 1\ line 2\\
1690 line 2\ line 3\\
1691 . line4/
16926 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1693 the way the shell is started?
16946 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1695 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1696
1697
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001698GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016999 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017008 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1701 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1702 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000017038 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1704 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1705 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017069 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1707 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1708 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1709 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001710- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1711 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1712 blocked for now.
1713
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001714
1715Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001716- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1717 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000017188 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1719 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017208 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1721 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +020017228 Win32: With two monitors, gvim partly on both, and adding/removing a
1723 scrollbar Vim resizes and moves to one of the monitors. (Chris Monkiewicz,
1724 2008 Oct)
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +000017258 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and
1726 Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor.
1727 Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001728 When the primary monitor is on the right, coordinates on the left monitor
1729 are negative. Clamping to zero means gvim jups to the primary monitor.
1730 (Michael Wookey, 2010 Aug 17)
1731 Probably the same issue: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim
1732 jumps from the secondary to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9)
1733 Possible solution using GetSystemMetrics() (Sergey Khorev, 2010 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017348 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1735 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1736 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
17378 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1738 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
17397 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1740 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1741 "lucida_console:h8").
17426 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1743 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000017448 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1745 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1746 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017477 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1748 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1749 to use an opaque background in most places?
17508 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1751 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1752 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
17538 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1754 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1755 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
17567 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1757 2004 May 9)
17588 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1759 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1760 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1761 MS-Windows 98?
1762 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1763 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1764 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1765 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017668 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1767 appear. (Sami Salonen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017688 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1769 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1770 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1771 doesn't work properly.
17728 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1773 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1774 appears in the right position. (Webb)
17759 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1776 button doesn't give popup menu.
1777 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1778 selection.
1779 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1780 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1781 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
17828 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1783 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1784 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1785 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
17868 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1787 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1788 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017897 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1790 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1791 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
17927 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1793 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001794 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017957 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1796 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017976 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
17988 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1799 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1800 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
18018 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1802 know which keyboard is being used?
18037 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1804 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1805 area (Koloseike).
18068 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1807 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1808 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1809 the font name).
1810
1811
1812Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000018136 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1814 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1815 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1816 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1817 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018189 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1819 required and it's missing?
18208 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1821 wrong.
18229 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1823 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000018249 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001825 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1826 flag.
18278 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1828 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1829 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
18308 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
18316 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1832 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1833 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1834 the tooltips work though...
18357 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1836 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
18378 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1838 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1839 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1840
1841
1842Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010018439 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
1844 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018459 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1846 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1847 through files.
18487 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1849 read long file names. (Schroeder)
18504 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1851 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1852 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1853 problem during a refresh.
18545 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1855 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1856 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1857 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1858 colors as it should.
1859 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1860 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1861
1862
1863Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02001864- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018657 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1866 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018678 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1868 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1869 (Phillipps)
1870
1871
1872GUI:
18739 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1874 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
18759 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00001876 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001877 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
18789 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1879 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
18808 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1881 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
18828 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1883 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1884 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
18858 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1886 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1887 of where it is processing the output.
1888 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
18898 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1890 doesn't work.
18918 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000018928 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1893 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1894 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020018958 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018968 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1897 browse().
18988 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1899 use that code? Or use console dialog.
19008 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1901 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000019027 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1903 - regexp on/off
1904 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1905 when all buffers/directory is used:
1906 - filter for file name
1907 when directory is used:
1908 - subdirectory on/off
1909 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019108 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1911 to avoid problems.
19128 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1913 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1914 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
19158 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1916 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1917 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
19188 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1919 up. Set erase character somehow?
19208 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1921 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1922 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1923 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
19248 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
19257 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1926 visible.
19277 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1928 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
19297 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1930 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
19318 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1932 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
19338 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1934 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1935 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1936 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1937- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
19384 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1939 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1940 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1941
1942
1943MSDOS/DJGPP:
19449 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1945 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1946 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
19478 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1948 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
19499 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00001950 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1951 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019529 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1953 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1954 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1955 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
19569 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1957 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1958 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1959 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1960 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1961 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1962 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1963 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1964 key code. Use a translation table?
19659 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1966 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
19678 Use DJGPP 2.03.
19688 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
1969 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
19708 setlocale() is bogus.
19718 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
1972 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
1973 Windows 95 system!
19748 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000019757 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001976 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
19777 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
1978 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
1979 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
19808 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
1981 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
19827 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
1983 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
1984 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
1985 "[New file]".
19867 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
1987 that is supported?
19888 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
19898 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
1990 Briscoe)
1991
1992
1993MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
19948 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
1995 gen_expand_wildcards().
19968 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
1997 Wagner.
19988 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
19998 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2000 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000020018 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2002 a good fallback, thus use:
2003 $HOME
2004 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2005 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2006 $USERPROFILE
2007 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2008 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2009 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2010 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020118 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2012 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
20138 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2014 Should work like in the GUI version.
20158 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2016 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
20178 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2018 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
20198 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2020 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2021 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020228 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2023 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2024 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2025
2026
2027Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020020288 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002029 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2030 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
20318 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2032 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2033
2034
2035Win32 console:
20369 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2037 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2038 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2039 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2040 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2041 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2042 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2043 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2044 and the file is not saved.
2045 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2046 long name.
20478 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2048 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
20497 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2050 besides the console.
20518 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
20529 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2053 <C-S-i>?
20549 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2055 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
20568 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2057 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020587 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2059 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2060 exiting.
2061
2062
2063Amiga:
20648 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2065 sequences.
20669 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2067 backslashes in result.
20688 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2069 all options, using white space separation.
2070
2071
2072Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002073- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020747 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2075 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2076 (Jack)
2077 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000020788 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2079 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020808 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
20818 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
20829 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2083 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020849 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002085
2086
2087"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002088- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2089 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002090- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2091 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002092- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2093 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2094 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2095 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2096 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2097 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2098 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000020999 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2100 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000021019 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002102 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2103 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021048 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2105 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2106 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002107 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021088 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
2109 error number, it's not a regular error message.
21107 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2111 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
21128 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2113 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2114 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021157 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2116 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002117- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2118 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021198 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2120 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2121 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2122 using the horizontal scrollbar.
21237 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2124 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2125 invocations belong together.
21268 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2127 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
21288 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2129 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2130 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2131 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2132 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000021338 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000021348 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2135 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2136 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021376 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021388 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2139 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021407 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2141 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2142 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2143 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
21448 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
2145 defined.
21467 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2147 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2148 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
21497 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2150 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2151 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
21527 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2153 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021547 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2155 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021569 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2157 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2158 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2159 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2160 script can be called.
21618 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2162 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2163 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021648 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2165 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000021668 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002167 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2168 configurable?
21698 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
21709 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2171 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2172 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021738 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2174 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021758 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2176 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021778 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2178 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021799 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2180 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2181 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021827 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021838 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2184 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2185 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000021868 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2187 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002188 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2189 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021908 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2191 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
21929 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2193 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2194 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002195 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021967 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2197 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021987 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2199 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2200 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2201 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022028 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002203 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2204 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2205 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2206 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002207 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2208 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002209 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002210 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002211 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2212 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2213 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2214 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2215 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
22168 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2217 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
22189 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2219 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2220 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022218 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2222 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
22238 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2224 in lines that don't extend into the block?
22258 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2226 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2227 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
22288 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2229 'linebreak'.
22308 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2231 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2232 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022339 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2234 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2235 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2236 'magic' in history. (Margo)
22379 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2238 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
22399 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2240 isn't updated).
22419 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
22429 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2243 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2244 cause another redraw, etc.
22458 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2246 must escape special characters in the pattern.
22478 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2248 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2249 ":w!!" for that.
2250 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2251 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002252 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022537 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2254 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2255 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2256 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2257 clipboard)
22587 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2259 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2260 Waggoner)
22618 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2262 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2263 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000022646 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2265 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2266 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022678 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2268 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
22698 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2270 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2271 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000022728 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022738 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2274 (e.g., ":w").
22758 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2276 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
22778 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2278 for ">>".
22798 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2280 script in do_cmdline().
22818 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2282 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2283 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2284 changes.
22858 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2286 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
22878 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2288 check for file marks. This can be slow.
22897 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2290 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2291 needed.
2292 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
22938 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2294 to skip catch_signals()?
22959 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2296 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2297 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2298 text?
22998 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2300 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
23018 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2302 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
23039 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2304 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2305 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2306 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2307 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
23087 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2309 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2310 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2311 in the list?
23128 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2313 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2314 instead of on button down.
23158 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
23169 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2317 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002318 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2319 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023208 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2321 character is typed.
23228 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2323 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
23248 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2325 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
23268 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2327 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2328 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2329 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2330 cygwin bash.
23317 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2332 Remember flags for backreferences.
23337 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2334 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
23357 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2336 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
23378 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2338 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
23397 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2340 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023417 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2342 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2343 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
23447 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2345 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
23468 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2347 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2348 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
23497 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2350 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002351
2352
2353I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
23549 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2355 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2356 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002357
2358
2359Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002360- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2361 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2362 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002363- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2364 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2365 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2366 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2367 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2368 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002369 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002370- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2371 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002372 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002373 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2374 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2375 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002376- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2377 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2378 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2379 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2380 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2381- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2382 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2383 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2384- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2385 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002386- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002387- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2388 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2389 character gets the highlighting.
2390- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2391 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2392- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2393 (Jennings)
2394- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2395- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2396 errors. How do we get the rest?
2397- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002398- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002399 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2400- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2401 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2402 first?
2403- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2404 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2405- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2406 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2407 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2408- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2409 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2410 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2411 (Benzinger).
2412- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2413 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2414 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2415- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2416 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2417- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2418 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2419- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2420 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2421 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2422 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2423 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2424 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2425- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2426 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2427 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002428- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2429 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2430 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002431- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2432 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2433 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2434- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2435 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2436- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2437 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2438- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2439 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2440- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2441 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2442- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2443 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2444 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2445 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2446 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2447- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2448 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2449 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2450- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2451 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2452 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002453- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2454 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 +00002455- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2456 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2457 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2458 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2459 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2460- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2461 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2462
2463--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2464 *extensions-improvements*
2465
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002466Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2467- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2468 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2469 calling a function.
2470 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2471 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002472- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2473 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2474- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2475 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2476 http://clewn.sf.net.
2477 And the idevim plugin/script.
2478 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2479 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2480 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2481 other window.
2482 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2483 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2484 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2485 in terminal mode.
2486- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2487 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2488 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2489 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2490 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2491 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002492 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002493- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2494 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2495 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002496- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2497 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002498- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2499 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2500 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000025018 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2502 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2503 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2504 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002505- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2506 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002507
2508
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002509Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025108 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2511 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000025128 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2513 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000025148 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2515 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025168 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025177 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
25189 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2519 - change to cursor position and curswant
2520 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2521 - how it works for folded lines
2522 - how it works with multi-byte characters
25239 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2524 work too.
25258 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2526 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2527 text.
25288 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
25297 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2530 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
25317 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2532 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002533 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002534- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2535
2536
2537Help:
2538- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2539 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2540- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2541 to the other matches.
2542- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2543- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2544- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2545 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2546 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2547 default contents.
2548- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2549 height for the help window (and other windows).
2550- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2551- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2552- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2553
2554
2555User Friendlier:
25568 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2557 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2558 Briscoe)
25598 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
25608 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2561 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2562 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
25638 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2564 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2565- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2566 ":mkplugin <file>"?
25678 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2568 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2569 'runtimepath'.
2570 " Vim plugin
2571 <main plugin code>
2572 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2573 <plugin docs>
2574- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
25759 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2576 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2577 item?).
2578 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025798 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
25807 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000025817 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2582 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2583 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000025848 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2585 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2586 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2587 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002588
2589
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002590Tab pages:
25919 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025927 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2593 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000025948 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000025958 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000025968 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
25978 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
25987 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000025997 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002600 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026017 Add local variables for each tab page?
26028 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2603 tab pages.
26047 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026057 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2606 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002607
2608
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002609Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002610- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2611 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2612 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2613 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002614- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2615 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2616- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2617 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2618 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2619- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2620 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002621- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2622 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2623 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002624- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2625 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2626 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002627- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2628 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002629- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002630 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2631 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000026328 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2633 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
26348 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2635 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
26368 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2637 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002638 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002639 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2640 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2641 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2642 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002643- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2644 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002645- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002646- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2647 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002648- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002649 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002650- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002651 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002652- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2653 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002654- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2655 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2656- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002657 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002658 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2659 in the affix file separately.
2660 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002661 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002662 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2663 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2664 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2665- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2666 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2667 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2668 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2669 Alternative:
2670 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2671 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2672 affix which is required.
2673- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002674 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002675- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2676 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2677 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002678- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2679 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002680- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2681 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2682- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000026838 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2684 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2685 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2686 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002687- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2688 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2689 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2690 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000026918 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2692 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000026938 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
26948 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2695 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000026967 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
26978 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2698 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2699 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2700 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002701
2702
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002703Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027049 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2705 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02002706 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027078 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2708 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2709 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002710 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2711 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027127 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2713 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2714 location.
2715
2716
2717Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002718 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2719 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027208 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2721 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000027228 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027239 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2724 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027258 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2726 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2727 user aware of this?
27288 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2729 commands skip over a closed fold.
27308 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
27318 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027327 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002733- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2734 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2735 missing line goes unnoticed.
2736 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002737- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2738 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2739 smoother?
2740- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2741 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002742- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2743 file can contain:
2744 args version.c main.c
2745 edit version.c
2746 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002747- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002748- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2749 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002750- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2751 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002752- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2753 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002754- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000027558 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002756 searches.
2757
2758
2759Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002760- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2761 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2762 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2763 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027649 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2765 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2766 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2767 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020027689 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
2769 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
2770 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027718 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2772 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2773 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2774 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2775 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2776 item.
27778 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002778 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2779 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027808 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2781 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002782 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00002783 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027848 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2785 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027868 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2787 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2788 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027897 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2790 so that the user can fix the problem.
27918 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2792 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027939 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
27948 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027958 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
27968 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027977 Searching and composing characters:
2798 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2799 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2800 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2801 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2802 characters can be manipulated.
2803 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2804 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028058 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
28068 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
28078 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2808 characters.
28098 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
28108 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2811 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
28127 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2813 'display' option to specify this.
28147 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2815 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2816- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2817 fontselector somehow.
2818- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2819 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2820- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2821 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2822- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2823 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2824 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2825 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2826 if a font exists?
2827- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02002828 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002829- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2830 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
28317 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2832 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00002833- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2834 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2835 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2836 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002837- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2838 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2839 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2840- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2841 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2842 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2843 But it's very complicated...
2844
2845
2846Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000028477 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002848- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2849- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2850 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00002851- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2852 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002853- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2854- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2855 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002856- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2857 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002858- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2859 units as for the margins.
2860- Support right-to-left text?
28618 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2862 color.
2863
2864
2865Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028668 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2867 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
28688 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2869 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
28708 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2871 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000028727 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2873 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028748 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2875 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2876 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028777 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2878 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2879 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028808 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
28819 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2882 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028837 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2884 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000028857 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2886 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028878 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2888 change this for each release.
28898 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2890 pattern, but not in the body.
28918 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2892 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2893 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028948 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
28958 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2896 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2897 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2898 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
28998 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2900 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
29018 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2902 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002903 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029048 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2905 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2906 used.
29078 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2908 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
29098 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2910 re-insert the [] if possible.
29118 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2912 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000029138 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2914 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2915 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2916 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2917 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029188 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2919 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
29208 Support for deleting syntax items:
2921 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2922 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2923 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
29248 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2925 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2926 a '<'. (Fleiner)
29277 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2928 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2929 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
29307 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2931 detected.
29328 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002933 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029348 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2935 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029368 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
29378 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
29387 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2939 ":mkvimrc".
29408 Improve c.vim:
2941 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2942 "c_strict_ansi".
2943 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
29448 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2945 current line while in Insert mode.
29468 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2947 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
29488 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2949 display position.
29508 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2951 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2952 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
29538 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2954 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2955 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029568 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2957 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2958 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000029597 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2960 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2961 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2962 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2963 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029647 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2965 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2966 E.g. for this html:
2967 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029687 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
29697 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
2970 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029718 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
29728 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029737 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
2974 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
2975 completion?
29768 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
2977 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
29787 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
2979 select one of the sets.
29808 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
2981 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
2982 2, etc.
29838 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
2984 highlighting (for "." command).
29858 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
2986 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
29878 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
29887 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
2989 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
29906 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
2991 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
2992- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
2993 when extending an already existing syntax file.
2994- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002995- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
2996 (for comment blocks).
2997- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
2998 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
2999 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3000 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3001 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3002 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3003 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3004 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3005 (Campbell)
3006 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3007 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
30087 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3009 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
30107 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3011 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3012 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
30137 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3014 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3015 messages. And external commands?
30168 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3017 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
30187 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3019 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3020
3021
3022Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030238 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3024 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030257 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3026 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3027 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030288 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3029 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003030- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3031 2006 Dec 11.
3032- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020030338 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3034 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3035 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3036 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3037 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3038 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000030397 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3040 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030418 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
30428 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3043 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3044 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3045 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3046 nested packages?
3047 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3048 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3049 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030507 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3051 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3052 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3053 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3054 autocommand.
3055 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3056 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3057 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3058 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030597 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3060 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030616 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3062 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030638 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003064 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3065 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3066 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3067 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3068 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3069 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3070 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003071 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3072 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3073 3 2002
3074 Only add this when also implemented for
3075 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3076 be used.
3077 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003078 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3079 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3080 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3081 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3082 File.Open..." argument.
3083 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3084 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3085 with properties instead.
3086 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3087 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3088 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003089 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003090 crypt() encrypt string
3091 decrypt() decrypt string
3092 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3093 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003094 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003095 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003096 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003097 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003098 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003099 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3100 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003101 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3102 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003103 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003104 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3105 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003106 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3107 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3108 to allow the library to execute a command or
3109 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031107 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3111 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
31128 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3113 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031148 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3115 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031168 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031177 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3118 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
31196 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031208 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3121 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031228 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3123 option or environment variable.
31248 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031258 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003126 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031277 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3128 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031298 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3130 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
31318 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
31328 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3133 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3134 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3135 charwise({expr}).
31367 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3137 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3138 buffer for this?
3139 result = scratch(string, command)
3140 result = apply(string, command)
3141 result = execute(string, command)
3142 "command" would use <> notation.
3143 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
31447 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003145
3146
3147Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000031486 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3149 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3150 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3151 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3152 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3153 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3154 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003155
3156
3157Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031587 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3159 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020031607 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3161 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3162 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3163 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031648 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3165 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3166 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3167 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003168 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031698 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3170 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3171 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031728 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
31739 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
31748 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
31757 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3176 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
31778 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3178 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3179 when starting up in a color terminal.
31808 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3181 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031828 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3183 function be improved?
31848 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3185 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3186 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3187 this be improved?
31888 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3189 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000031907 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3191 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031927 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3193 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
31947 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3195 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020031967 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031977 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3198 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3199 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3200 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3201 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3202 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3203 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
32048 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
3205 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
3206 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
3207 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
32088 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3209 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3210 using strcmp() too often?
32117 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3212 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3213 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3214 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3215 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3216 the two blocks to the memfile block.
32177 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3218 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3219 with an argument that can be messed with.
3220 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3221 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
32227 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3223- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
32248 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3225 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3226- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3227 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3228- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3229- Do profiling on:
3230 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3231 - 1000ii<Esc>
3232 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3233 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3234 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3235 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3236 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3237 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003238 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032397 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3240 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3241 changed).
3242 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3243 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3244- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3245- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3246 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3247- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3248 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3249 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3250- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3251 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3252- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3253- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3254 cursor is right of the screen.
32558 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3256 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3257
3258
3259Code size:
32608 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3261- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3262 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
32638 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
32648 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3265 it.
32667 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3267 left out.
32688 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3269 can be removed.
32708 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3271
3272
3273Messages:
32748 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3275 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
32768 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3277 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
32788 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3279 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003280- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3281 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3282- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032838 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3284 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032859 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3286 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3287 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3288 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3289 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032908 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3291 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
32928 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3293 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3294 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3295 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3296 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3297 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003298- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003299 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033008 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3301 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3302 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3303 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3304 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3305 error messages, printing text, etc.
33068 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3307 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3308 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3309
3310
3311Screen updating:
33127 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3313 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3314 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3315- screen_line():
3316 - insert/delete character stuff.
3317 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3318- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3319 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3320- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3321 waiting for a character.
33228 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3323 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3324 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
33257 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003326
3327
3328Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020033298 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033306 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3331- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3332 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3333 windows.
33347 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3335 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3336 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3337- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3338 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3339 (Goldfarb)
3340- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3341 bound windows.
3342- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3343 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003344- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003345- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3346 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3347 of lines but not with a single line).
3348
3349
3350Autoconf:
33518 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
33528 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3353 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3354- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3355 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3356- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3357- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3358- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3359
3360
3361Perl interface:
33628 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033637 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
33647 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
33656 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3366
3367
3368Shared libraries:
33696 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3370 :libload internal-name libname
3371 :libunload internal-name
3372 :liblist
3373 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3374 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3375 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
33766 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3377
3378
3379Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000033809 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3381 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3382 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3383 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3384 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000033858 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3386 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3387 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003388 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003389 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000033908 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3391 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3392 several).
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003393 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3394 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3395 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000033967 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3397 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3398 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033998 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
34008 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3401 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034027 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3403 window for each tag.
34047 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
34057 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3406 bottom" search message.
34077 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3408 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3409 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003410- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3411- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003412- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3413 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3414 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034157 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3416 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3417 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3418 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
34197 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3420 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3421 :tagargs clear
3422 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3423 matching).
34247 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3425 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3426 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3427 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
34287 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3429 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
34307 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3431 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3432 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003433
3434
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003435Win32 GUI:
34368 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3437 the message and input?
34387 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3439 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3440 dynamically?
34417 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3442 (Mike McCollister)
34438 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3444 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3445 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3446 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3447 common part of the path.
34488 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
34498 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3450 gettext and menus work.
34518 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3452 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003453 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003454 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
34558 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3456 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
34578 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3458 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
34597 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3460 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
34617 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
34627 <Esc> should close a dialog.
34637 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3464 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3465 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3466 prompts.
34677 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3468 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3469 the file added into an already running Vim.
34707 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3471 functions to find the window title.
3472
3473
3474GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034758 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003476- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3477 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
34787 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
34798 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
34806 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
34818 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3482 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
34839 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
34847 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
34858 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3486 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
34878 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3488 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3489 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
34908 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3491 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
34928 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3493 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3494 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3495 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034967 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
34978 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3498 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000034997 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3500 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3501 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035028 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
35038 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003504 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035058 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
35068 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
35078 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3508 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3509 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
35107 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3511 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3512 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
35137 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3514 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
35157 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3516 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3517 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3518 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
35197 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3520 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
35217 Should support multi-column menus.
3522- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3523 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3524- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
35258 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
35266 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3527 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
35287 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
35297 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3530 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3531 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
35327 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
35338 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3534 name can be chosen free.
35357 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3536 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
35376 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3538 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3539 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3540 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3541 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3542 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3543 things.
35447 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3545 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035467 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003547 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003548- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3549 where it was started from?
35507 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3551
3552
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003553Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020035549 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3555 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003556- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010035578 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3558 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3559 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3560 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
35618 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3562 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000035637 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3564 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3565 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3566 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000035677 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035688 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3569 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035708 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3571 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3572 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035737 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3574 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3575 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035768 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3577 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3578 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035797 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3580 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035818 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3582 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035838 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035846 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3585 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035867 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035877 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003588 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3589 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3590 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035915 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3592 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3593 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
35947 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3595 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3596 file.
35978 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3598 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3599 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003600- Add events to autocommands:
3601 Error - When an error happens
3602 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003603 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003604 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3605 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003606 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003607 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003608 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3609 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003610 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003611 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003612 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003613 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3614 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3615 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3616 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003617 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003618 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3619 the char.
3620 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3621 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3622 file from CVS).
3623 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3624 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3625 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3626 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3627 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3628 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003629 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3630 changes.
3631 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3632 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003633- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003634 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003635 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003636 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3637 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3638 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3639 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3640 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3641
3642
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003643Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003644- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3645 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003646- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3647 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3648 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3649 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3650 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003651- Ideas from others:
3652 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3653 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3654 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3655 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3656 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3657 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3658 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3659 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3660 Uses Perl for C++.
3661 Uses ctags to find the info:
3662 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3663 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3664 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3665 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3666 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3667 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003668 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003669 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3670- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3671
3672
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003673Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003674- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000036757 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3676 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000036777 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3678 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3679 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036808 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3681 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
36829 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3683 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3684 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036858 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3686 - ignore/match case
3687 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036888 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3689 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3690 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3691 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3692 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3693 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036948 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000036957 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3696 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036978 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3698 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3699 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3700 Should work for C++ and Java.
3701 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
37027 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
37037 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3704 instead of words.
37058 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
37068 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3707 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
37088 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3709 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003710- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3711 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003712- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3713 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3714 wildcards in the file name)?
3715- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3716- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3717- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3718 be in another file).
3719- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3720- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3721- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3722 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3723- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3724- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3725- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003726- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3727
3728
3729Command line editing:
37307 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3731 line.
37328 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3733 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3734 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3735- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3736 lines wraps to start of line).
3737- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3738 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3739 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3740 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3741 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3742 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3743 cmdwin does now already.
3744 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3745 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3746 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3747 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3748 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3749 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3750 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3751 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3752 Problems:
3753 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3754 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3755 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3756 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3757 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3758 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3759 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3760 character in first column?
3761 - Implementation ideas:
3762 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3763 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3764 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3765 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3766 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3767 Mode.
3768
3769
3770Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037718 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037728 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
37738 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3774 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
37758 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3776 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037778 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3778 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037797 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3780 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003781- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3782- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3783 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037848 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3785 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
37867 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3787 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3788- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3789 identifiers (Webb).
37908 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3791 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
37927 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3793 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3794- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3795 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3796- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3797 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3798 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003799
3800
3801Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000038029 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3803 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3804 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003805- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3806 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3807 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3808 completely resulted from one mapping.
3809- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3810 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3811
3812
3813Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000038149 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3815 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3816 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038178 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3818 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3819 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3820 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3821 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038228 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3823 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3824 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038257 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3826 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003827- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020038289 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038297 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3830 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3831- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3832 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3833 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3834 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3835 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3836 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3837- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3838 Normal mode.
3839- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3840 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3841 are used.
3842- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3843- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3844- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3845
3846
3847'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010038489 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
3849 char * veryLongName =
3850 "very long string"
3851 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038528 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038538 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3854 long_type foo =
3855 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038568 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3857 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003858 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038598 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3860 func(
3861 new String[] {
3862 "asdf",
3863 "asdf"
3864 }
3865 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038668 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3867 (Chow Loong Jin)
3868 namespace {
3869 int
3870 func(int arg) {
3871 }
3872 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038736 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3874 func( arg1
3875 , arg2
3876 , arg3
3877 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000038787 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003879 func(
3880 int x) // indent like "(4"
3881 {
3882 if (a
3883 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038849 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3885 if (a)
3886 {
3887 if (b)
3888 {
3889 // {
3890 }
3891 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003892 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3893 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3894 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003895- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003896 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
38977 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3898- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3899 line).
3900- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3901- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3902 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
39037 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3904- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3905 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3906- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3907 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3908- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3909- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3910 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
39118 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3912 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3913 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3914- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3915- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3916 lines start with "\item".
3917- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3918 /* here is a comment that
3919 is just autoindented, and
3920 nothing else */
3921- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
39227 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3923 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3924 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003925 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3926 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003927
3928
3929Java:
39308 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3931 Odendahl?
39328 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3933 "[i" commands and friends.
3934- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3935 (Jason)
3936- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3937 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3938
3939
3940'comments':
39418 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3942 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3943 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3944 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003945 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3946 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039477 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3948 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
39497 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
39506 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3951 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3952 regexp is used.
39538 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3954 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3955
3956
3957Virtual edit:
39588 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039597 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3960
3961
3962Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039638 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039648 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000039658 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00003966 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039678 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3968 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003969 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3970 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039718 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039727 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
3973 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039748 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
3975 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039768 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
3977 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
3978 the end of the line or before a ".".
39797 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
3980 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
39817 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
3982 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039836 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
39845 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
3985 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
3986 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
3987 cursor is on.
3988
3989
3990Select mode:
39918 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
3992 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
39937 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
3994 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
39957 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
3996 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
3997 contains 'C' or 'A'.
3998 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
3999 normal_cmd().
4000 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4001 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4002
4003
4004Visual mode:
4005- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4006 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4007 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004008- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4009 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4010 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040118 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004012 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004013 where needed.
40147 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4015 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
40167 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4017 of each selected line.
40188 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
40198 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4020 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4021 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
40228 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4023 Ben Godfrey)
40247 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4025 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
40267 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4027 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
40287 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4029 Young is working on this)
40307 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004031 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004032 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
40338 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4034 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
40357 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4036 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4037 option!
40387 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4039 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4040 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4041 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4042 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4043 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4044 without changing the column.
40456 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040467 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4047 current buffer.
40487 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
40496 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4050 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
40516 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040526 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004053 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004054 or other special character.
40556 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4056
4057
4058More advanced repeating commands:
4059- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000040607 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004061 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004062- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004063- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004064 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4065 "y." will repeat last yank.
4066 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4067 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4068 and/or pick an older command.
4069- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4070
4071
4072Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040738 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4074 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4075 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
40768 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
40777 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4078 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040798 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4080 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
40818 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000040827 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040838 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4084 entering search strings.
40858 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4086 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4087 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040888 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4089 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040908 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4091 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4092 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
40937 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040947 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4095 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040966 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4097 abbreviations are to be used.
4098- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4099 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4100 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004101- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4102 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4103 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4104 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4105 Or implicit:
4106 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004107- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4108 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4109 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004110- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4111 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4112- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4113 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
41146 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4115 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4116 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4117 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004118- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4119 non-replace Insert mode?
4120- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004121- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4122- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4123 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4124- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004125 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004126- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4127 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4128- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4129- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4130 ":freekeys".
4131- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4132
4133
4134Incsearch:
4135- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4136- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4137 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4138 up every time.
4139- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4140 folds when going to another line.
4141- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4142 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4143 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4144 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4145- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4146 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4147
4148
4149Searching:
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000041508 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004151 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004152 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004153 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004154 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041559 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4156 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010041578 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4158 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000041598 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4160 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4161 Perl does it this way:
4162 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4163 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4164 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4165 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041668 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4167 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4168 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041698 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4170 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4171 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000041727 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4173 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000041748 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4175 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000041767 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004177 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4178 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4179 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
41807 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4181 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000041827 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004183 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041847 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4185 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041868 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4187 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
41888 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4189 line.
41907 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4191 example.
41928 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4193 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4194- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4195 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4196 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4197 Alternative: use matchit.vim
41988 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
41998 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4200 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4201 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
42027 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4203 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000042047 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4205 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042068 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4207 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042088 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4209 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042108 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4211 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4212 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4213 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004214- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4215 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004216- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4217 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4218- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4219 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4220 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4221 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042228 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4223 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004224- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4225 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042268 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4227 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4228 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004229- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4230 i ignore case
4231 I use case
4232 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4233 v use Vi regexp syntax
4234 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4235 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4236 Perl uses these too:
4237 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4238 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4239 o compile only once (Perl only)
4240 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4241 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4242 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4243 following command.
4244 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4245- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4246 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4247 for search string)?
42487 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4249 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4250- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4251 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4252- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4253 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4254- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4255- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004256 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004257 a for the next file in the argument list
4258 f for file in the buffer list
4259 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004260 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4261 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004262 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4263 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4264- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042657 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004266 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042677 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4268 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4269 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4270 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
42716 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4272 effects.
42737 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4274 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4275 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000042767 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004277 Also ":dselect".
4278
4279
4280Undo:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042819 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4282 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020042838 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4284 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4285 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
42868 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4287 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042888 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4289 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4290 timestamp?
4291 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4292 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042938 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4294 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4295 was changed outside of Vim.
4296 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4297 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004298 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4299 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004300- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4301 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004302- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4303 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4304 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
43058 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4306 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4307 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4308 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
43098 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4310 only remember the lines that really changed.
43117 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4312 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4313 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4314 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004315- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4316 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4317- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4318 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4319- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4320 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4321 [-99].
4322- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4323- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004324- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4325 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4326
4327
4328Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043297 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4330 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4331 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4332 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
43338 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4334 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
43358 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4336 inode too.
43377 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004338 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4339 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043407 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4341 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4342- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4343 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4344- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4345 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
43467 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4347 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
43487 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4349 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
43508 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000043518 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004352 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
43537 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4354 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010043558 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4356 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4357 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004358
4359
4360Swap (.swp) files:
43618 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4362 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4363 there are short file name problems.
43648 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4365 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
43668 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
43678 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004368 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004369 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4370 file the same as the actual file?
4371 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043727 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4373 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
43747 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004375 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004376 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4377 enough room.
43787 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4379 or /var/preserve.
4380- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4381 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4382- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4383 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4384- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4385 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4386 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4387 cached list of which line is where.
4388
4389
4390Viminfo:
43917 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4392 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4393 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000043948 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4395 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4396 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043978 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4398 name. (Schild)
43998 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
44008 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044018 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044028 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4403 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4404 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4405 this?
44067 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
44077 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4408 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
44096 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4410 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4411 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4412- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4413 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4414
4415
4416Modelines:
44178 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4418 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4419 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004420- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4421 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4422 'shiftwidth'.
4423- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4424 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004425- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4426 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4427 modeline setting.
4428- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4429 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4430- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4431 .cpp files.
4432- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4433 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4434- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4435 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4436
4437
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004438Sessions:
44398 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4440 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
44417 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4442 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044438 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4444 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044458 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4446 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4447 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000044487 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4449 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000044507 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004451
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004452
4453Options:
44547 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4455 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044568 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4457 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4458 also be supported.
44598 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4460 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4461 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
44627 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
44637 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4464 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004465
4466
4467External commands:
44688 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4469 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
44704 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4471 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4472 -f).
44734 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
44744 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4475 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
44764 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4477
4478
4479Multiple Windows:
44807 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
44818 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4482 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
44837 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4484 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4485 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044867 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4487 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000044887 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4489 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044906 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4491 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004492 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004493 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
44947 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4495 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4496 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4497 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4498- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4499 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4500 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4501 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4502
4503
4504Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045058 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045068 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4507 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045088 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 +000045098 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4510 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
45118 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4512 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4513 the mark was set.
45147 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4515 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4516 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4517 ":browse marks"?
45186 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045197 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4520 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
45217 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4522 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
45237 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4524 command).
45257 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4526 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4527 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4528 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
45295 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4530 mappings.
45316 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4532 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4533 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4534
4535
4536Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020045377 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01004538 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'filenecoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004539- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4540 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000045418 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045427 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4543 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4544
4545
4546Writing files:
4547- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4548 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4549 shortname conversion.
45508 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
45518 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4552 file.
45538 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4554 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4555 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045566 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4557 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
45586 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4559 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
45606 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4561 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045628 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004563 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
45647 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4565 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
45667 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4567 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4568 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4569 waiting for a character to be typed).
45708 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4571 line of the window, like "[time]".
4572 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4573 Automatic and/or with a command.
4574
4575
4576Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000045778 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4578 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045798 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004580 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4581- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4582- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
45838 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4584 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004585- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004586 :s///N substitutes N times.
4587- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4588 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4589 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
45907 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4591 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4592 last line column 5.
45935 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4594 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4595 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4596 (Stanislav Sitar)
4597
4598
4599Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046008 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
46017 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
46028 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4603 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4604 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004605- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4606- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4607 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4608- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4609- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4610
4611
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004612Argument list:
46136 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4614 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4615 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
46166 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4617
4618
4619Registers:
46208 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
46218 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4622 around in windows.
46238 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4624 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4625 for every line.
46266 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4627 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4628 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4629- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4630 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4631- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4632 leader when line wraps?
4633- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4634 line in the range.
4635- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4636 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
46378 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4638 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004639
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004640
4641Debug mode:
46427 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
46438 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000046448 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046457 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004646 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4647 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4648 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046497 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
46507 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4651
4652
4653Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010046549 Python: be able to define a Python function that can be called directly
4655 from Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value.
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046567 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4657 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4658 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4659 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4660 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4661 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4662 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004663 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000046647 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4665 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000046667 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4667 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046688 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4669 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046707 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4671 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4672 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004673- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004674 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046757 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4676 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046777 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4678 window as a buffer-tab selection.
46798 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046806 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
46817 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4682 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4683 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004684 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4685 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046867 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4687 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
46888 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4689 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046906 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046918 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4692 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4693 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4694 in this Vim.
46958 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004696 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046978 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4698 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4699 have it apply to the following command.
47008 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4701 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4702 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4703 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047047 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4705 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047067 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4707 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4708 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4709 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047106 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
47118 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
47129 Support ACLs on more systems.
47137 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4714 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047157 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4716 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4717 (truncated to fit in the space).
47187 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
47198 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
47208 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4721 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000047227 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004723 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
47247 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4725 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047267 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047277 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
47287 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047298 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
47308 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4731 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4732 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4733 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
47348 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
47356 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4736 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004737 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047388 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047398 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4740 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4741 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4742 does something like this. (Shah)
47437 Use growarray for replace stack.
47447 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4745 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
47463 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047477 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4748 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010047497 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
4750 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004751- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4752- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4753- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4754- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
47557 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4756 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4757- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4758 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02004759- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004760- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4761 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4762- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4763 call "play newbeep.au").
4764- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4765 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4766 (Bhatt).
4767- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4768 blockwise registers).
4769- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4770 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4771- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4772 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4773 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4774 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004775- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047767 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4777 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4778- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4779 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4780 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4781 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4782 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047838 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4784 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047858 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4786 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4787 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4788 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4789 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4790- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004791- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047927 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4793 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4794- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4795 not in column 1.
47966 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4797 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
47987 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4799- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004800- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004801 :redir #> bufname
4802 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00004803- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4804 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004805- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4806 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4807 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
48086 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4809 console? (Klaus Hast)
4810- Add :delcr command:
4811 *:delcr*
4812 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4813 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4814 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4815 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4816 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4817 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4818- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4819- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4820 characters from 'isprint'.
4821- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4822- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4823 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4824- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4825 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4826 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4827- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4828- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4829 Nvi).
4830- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4831 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
48327 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4833- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4834 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
48356 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4836- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4837 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4838 macro).
4839- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004840- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4841 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4842- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
48438 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004844- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4845- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4846- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4847 if it is not the first or last window.
4848- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4849 there is one) instead of the file itself.
48507 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4851 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4852 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4853- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4854- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004855 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004856 many percent down the windows).
4857- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4858 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4859 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4860- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4861 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4862- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4863 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4864- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4865- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4866- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4867 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048688 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4869 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4870 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4871 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4872 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004873- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4874 t_bs is set? (Webb)
4875- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004876 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4877- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004878 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4879 (Webb).
4880- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004881 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004882- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4883 hex codes like 0xff).
4884- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4885 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4886 the last TYPED command.
4887- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4888- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4889- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4890 should also work?
4891- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
48928 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4893 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4894 name.
4895- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4896 trailing '.'.
4897- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4898 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4899 find_file_in_path().
4900- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4901 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4902- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4903- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4904 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4905- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004906 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004907- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4908 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4909 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004910- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004911 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4912- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4913- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4914- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4915 to the minimal size.
4916- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4917- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4918- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4919- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4920- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004921- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4922 entered)?
4923- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4924 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004925- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004926- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4927- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4928- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4929- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4930- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4931 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004932- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049338 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4934 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4935 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4936 or in octal.
49377 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4938 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004939- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004940 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4941- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4942- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4943 insert line command).
4944- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4945- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4946- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4947- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4948- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4949 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004950- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004951 yet.
4952- Implement 'redraw' option.
4953- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4954 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049557 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4956 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00004957 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4958 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049598 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4960 do it.
4961- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4962- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4963 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4964- Add text justification option.
4965- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4966- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4967 off".
4968- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4969- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4970- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004971 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004972- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004973- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004974- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
4975- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
4976 commands.
4977- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
4978- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
4979- :table command (Webb)
4980- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004981- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
4982- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
4983- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
4984- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
4985- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
4986 (Demirel).
4987- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
4988- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
4989 for use in macro's and the like.
4990- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004991 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004992- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004993 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004994- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004995 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004996 a window to become smaller (Webb).
4997- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
4998 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004999- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005000 mkopttab to make option table?
5001- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5002 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5003- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5004 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005005- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005006 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5007- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5008 cursor?
5009- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5010- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
50115 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5012 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000050138 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5014 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5015 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5016 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5017 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050188 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5019 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5020 (Netherton)
50216 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5022 space after "(", for example.
50235 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5024 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5025 (Servatius Brandt)
5026
5027
5028From Elvis:
5029- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5030- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005031- Search patterns:
5032 \@ match word under cursor.
5033 but do:
5034 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5035 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
50368 ":window" command:
5037 :win + next window (up)
5038 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5039 :win - previous window (down)
5040 :win -- idem, wrapping
5041 :win nr to window number "nr"
5042 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
50437 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5044 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5045
5046
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005047From xvi:
5048- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5049- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5050
5051
5052From vile:
5053- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5054- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5055 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5056
5057
5058Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005059- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5060 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5061 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5062 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5063 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005064- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5065 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5066- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5067 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5068 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5069 current layout mirrored.
5070- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5071- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5072 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5073- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5074- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5075 font in each top-level window.
5076- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5077- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5078- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5079- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5080 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5081- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5082 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5083 mentioned in the tags file.
5084 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5085 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5086- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5087 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5088- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5089 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
50904 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5091 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5092 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5093 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005094 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005095 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5096 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5097- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5098 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5099 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5100
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005101When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5102empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005103
5104vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5105vim: set fo+=n :