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Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 9.0. Last change: 2023 Apr 22
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +010041Delete ci/load-snd-dummy.sh?
42Update Filelist
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44When using ":set no<CTRL-A>" add options starting with "no", not all boolean
45options.
46
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +000047Crash when splitting window: #11961. Set RedrawingDisabled in
48win_split_ins().
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Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +000050In runtime/autoload/dist/script.vim change "set ft=" to "setlocal ft=" ?
51
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +000052CTRL-J mapping is not used if halfway another mapping. #12002
53Is simplified mapping not used but escape code has been simplified?
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Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +010055Windows scroll when using the autocmd window. #12085
56in restore_snapshot_rec() restore more values from the snapshot, instead of
57calling frame_new_height() and frame_new_width(), especially w_topline and
58w_skipcol.
59
60'smoothscroll' problem: #12199
61Problems related to 'smoothscroll': #12218 and #12211
62
63include #12140: positional arguments in printf(), fixes #10577
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65Include #11818: attach custom data to quickfix items.
66
67When a help item can't be found, then open 'helpfile'. Search for the tag in
68that file and gtive E149 only when not found. Helps for a tiny Vim installed
69without all the help files.
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +000070
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +000071Errors when running tests with valgrind:
72- test_codestyle.vim: e.g.:
73 command line..script /home/mool/vim/vim90/src/testdir/runtest.vim[569]..function RunTheTest[52]..Test_test_files line 6: keycode_check.vim: space before tab: Expected 0 but got 7
74 command line..script /home/mool/vim/vim90/src/testdir/runtest.vim[569]..function RunTheTest[52]..Test_test_files line 10: setup.vim: trailing white space: Expected 0 but got 23
75- test_gui.vim:
76 Found errors in Test_gui_mouse_event():
77
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +000078Upcoming larger works:
79- Make spell checking work with recent .dic/.aff files, e.g. French. #4916
80 Make Vim understand the format somehow? Search for "spell" below.
81 Make sure suggestions are speedy, also with composed words (German).
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +010082- Make syntax highlighting faster and better. Discuss alternatives for using
83 other grammars (treesitter, TextMate).
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +000084 - Possibly conversion to Vim syntax rules.
85 - Other mechanism than group and cluster to nest syntax items, to be used
86 for grammars.
87 - Possibly keeping the parsed syntax tree and incremental updates.
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +000088 - tree-sitter doesn't handle incorrect syntax (while typing) properly.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +010089 - NeoVim uses treesitter, what can we learn from that?
90 - Vscode is asked to switch to treesitter:
91 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/50140
92 - Vscode uses TextMate. #9087 - Other people don't like it.
93 https://github.com/icedman/vim-textmate
94 - sublime grammar? Hugo mentions it's a moving target #9087
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +000095 - Make clear how it relates to LSP.
96 - example plugin: https://github.com/uga-rosa/dps-vsctm.vim
Bram Moolenaarf269eab2022-10-03 18:04:35 +010097
Bram Moolenaar9b03d3e2022-08-30 20:26:34 +010098
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020099Further Vim9 improvements, possibly after launch:
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000100- implement :class and :interface: See |vim9-classes
101 - Change access: public by default, private by prefixing "_".
102 Check for error: can't have same name twice (ignoring "_" prefix).
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000103 - Make ":defcompile ClassName" compile all functions and methods in the
104 class.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100105 - Forward declaration of a class? E.g. for Clone() function.
106 email lifepillar 2023 Mar 26
107 - Getting member of variable with "any" type should be handled at runtime.
108 Remove temporary solution from #12096 / patch 9.0.1375.
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000109 - Private methods?
110 either: private def Func()
111 or: def _Func()
112 Perhaps use "private" keyword instead of "_" prefix?
113 - "final" object members - can only be set in the constructor.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100114 - "obj.Method()" does not always work in a compiled function, assumes "obj"
115 is a dictionary. #12196
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000116 - accept line breaks in member initialization. #11957
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000117 - object empty(), len() - can class define a method to be used for them?
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000118 - add to help: when using a default new() method then reordering object
119 members may cause trouble. Can define new() without arguments to avoid.
120 - TODO items: check types for "implements" - members and methods
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000121 - how about lock/unlock?
122 - When checking "implements" also check types of members and function args.
123 - For chaining, allow using the class name as type for function return
124 value.
125 - Implement generics
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000126 - Add "instanceof" (exact class name). And "assignable" (class or child)?
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000127 - More efficient way for interface member index than iterating over list?
128 - a variant of type() that returns a different type for each class?
129 list<number> and list<string> should also differ.
130 - Issue #11822: any.Func() can be a dict or an object call, need to handle
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100131 this at runtime. Also see #12198 for an example.
Bram Moolenaar6f4754b2022-01-23 12:07:04 +0000132- implement :type
133- implement :enum
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000134- Promise class, could be used to wait on a popup close callback?
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000135- class local to a function
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000136- Use Vim9 for more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200137- Inline call to map() and filter(), better type checking.
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +0200138- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
139 has(featureName), len(someString)
140- Implement as part of an expression: ++expr, --expr, expr++, expr--.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100141
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000142Information missing in terminfo:
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000143- Accept "hyper" and "meta" modifiers (16 and 32) from Kitty like Meta?
144 8 is actually "super".
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000145- t_RV request terminal version string; xterm: "\033[>c"
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000146 change in terminfo for "RV" uses the wrong escape sequence 7 - 14 Jan only
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100147- Codes for <PasteStart> t_PS and <PasteEnd> t_PE; with bracketed paste:
148 t_BE and t_BD.
149- Codes used for focus gained and lost (currently using use_xterm_like_mouse())
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000150 termcodes are hard-coded in set_termname(), not named.
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000151 Use the XF flag? enables recognizing the focus in/out events.
152 Check if t_fe is not empty.
153 Check for "1004" in t_XM. (disadvantage: only focus events when mouse is
154 used)
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000155- t_fe enable focus-event tracking
156- t_fd disable focus-event tracking
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000157Modifiers for various keys
Bram Moolenaarbe4e0162023-02-02 13:59:48 +0000158- flag to indicate "xterm compatible modifiers" ?
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000159Underline and similar:
160- t_AU - Set underline color: like "AF" and "AB" entries.
161- t_Ce undercurl and underline end
162- t_Cs undercurl (curly underline) mode
163- t_Us double underline mode
164- t_ds dotted underline mode
165- t_Ds dashed underline mode
166- t_Te strikethrough end
167- t_Ts strikethrough mode
168Cursor codes: |termcap-cursor-shape|
169- t_RC request terminal cursor blinking
170- t_RS request terminal cursor style
171- t_VS cursor normally visible (no blink)
172- t_SI start insert mode (bar cursor shape)
173- t_SR start replace mode (underline cursor shape)
174- t_EI end insert or replace mode (block cursor shape)
175- t_SC set cursor color start
176- t_EC set cursor color end
177- t_SH set cursor shape
178State requests:
179- t_RF request terminal foreground color
180- t_RB request terminal background color
181Less important (not needed for regular editing):
182- t_IS set icon text start
183- t_IE set icon text end
184- t_ST save window title to stack
185- t_RT restore window title from stack
186- t_Si save icon text to stack
187- t_Ri restore icon text from stack
188- t_WP set window position (Y, X) in pixels
189- t_GP get window position (Y, X) in pixels
190- t_WS set window size (height, width in cells)
191Vim internal, but there should be a terminfo entry for these:
192- t_8f set foreground color (R, G, B) in printf() format
193- t_8b set background color (R, G, B) in printf() format
194- t_8u set underline color (R, G, B) in printf() format
195Probably Vim internal, not in terminfo:
196- t_TE end of "raw" mode
197- t_TI put terminal into "raw" mode
198- t_RK request terminal keyboard protocol state; sent after |t_TI|
199Already working, not properly documented:
200- t_u7 request cursor position
201
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200202Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100203- Add a function to redraw a specific popup window. Esp. to be used when
204 editing the command line, when screen updating doesn't happen. (Shougo)
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100205 #10210 Example that shows the need on the issue.
206 Probably need to update all popup windows (they may overlap)
Bram Moolenaarf269eab2022-10-03 18:04:35 +0100207 If the display is scrolled need to redraw everything later.
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200208- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable?
209 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in
210 current window.
211 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows
212 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200213- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
214 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100215- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200216- Make it possible to scroll horizontally when 'wrap' is off. Does this
217 require an ascii scrollbar, like with the vertical one?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100218- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
219 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
220 the way. (#5737)
221 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +0200222- Width is not computed correctly when minwidth and maxwidth are &columns
223 and padding and a scrollbar are used. (#6676)
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +0100224- Should popup_getoptions() also return the mask? #7774
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200225- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
226 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100227- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
228 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
229- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200230- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200231 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100232- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
233 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100234- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200235
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100236'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200237- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
238 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
239- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200240- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200241- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
242 isn't one?
243 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
244
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200245Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100246- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200247- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100248- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200249
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200250Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +0100251- Add a mechanism for configuration. Instead of several global variables use
252 a dictionary. Use callbacks for some things, e.g. opening a debug window in
253 a certain position.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200254- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100255- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
256 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100257- Use the optional token on requests, match the result with it. #10300
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200258- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200259- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200260 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
261 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100262- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100263- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
264 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100265 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100266 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200267
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200268Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100269- Can escape a terminal popup with win_gotoid(), should be an error
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200270- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200271- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
272 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
273 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200274- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
275 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
276 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
277 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200278- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
279 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100280- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
281 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200282 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
283 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100284 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100285- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100286- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
287 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200288- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
289 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200290- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200291- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
292 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
293- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
294 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200295- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
296 is disabled.
297- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
298- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
299 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200300- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
301 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
302 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100303- Redrawing is slow with Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200304- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
305 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
306- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
307 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200308
Bram Moolenaar1b5f03e2023-01-09 20:12:45 +0000309Patch adds showcmd() function #11708
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000310
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100311Cursor is after the end of the line: #12137.
312
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100313Crash when a variable is removed while listing variables (Issue #11435)
314
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +0100315Autoconf: must use autoconf 2.69, later version generates lots of warnings
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100316- try using autoconf 2.71 and fix all "obsolete" warnings #11322
317
318Problem with Visual highlight when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
319#11272
Bram Moolenaar016188f2022-06-06 20:52:59 +0100320
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100321Selected index returned by complete_info() does not match the index in the
322list of items. #12230
323
324Support dark mode for MS-Windows: #12282
325
326Remote command escapes single quote with backslash, should be doubling the
327single quote in vim_strsave_escaped_ext() #12202.
328
329PR to add custom and customlist completion types. #12228
330
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100331Can deref_func_name() and deref_function_name() be merged?
332
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100333Using :global with a pattern containing \zs doesn't use the line where \zs
334matches but the start of the pattern. #3695 If there is a useful application
335for this, it can be made to work by changing the call to ml_setmarked():
336 ml_setmarked(lnum + regmatch.startpos[0].lnum);
337
Bram Moolenaar921bde82022-05-09 19:50:35 +0100338After patch 8.2.4915 w_botline is computed much more often. Can this be
339reduced?
Bram Moolenaarfd31be22022-01-16 14:46:06 +0000340
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100341When 'delcombine' is set a put after "x" includes the base character and all
342combining characters. (Ron Aaron, 2023 Apr 10)
343
Bram Moolenaar0daafaa2022-09-04 17:45:43 +0100344Add BufDeletePost. #11041
345
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000346Add winid arg to col() and charcol() #11466 (request #11461)
347
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000348Can we make 'noendofline' and 'endoffile' visible? Should show by default,
349since it's an unusual situation.
350- Show 'noendofline' when it would be used for writing ('fileformat' "dos")
351 with an upside down exclamation mark? NonText highlighting.
352- Show 'endoffile' when it would be used for writing ('fileformat' "dos") with
353 "CTRL-Z", NonText highlighting.
354- Add 'fillchars' items to change this, default behavior like:
355 noeol:¡
356 eof:CTRL-Z
357
Bram Moolenaar9fbdbb82022-09-27 17:30:34 +0100358Test property disappears when using CR twice in a row. OK when some text was
359entered. (#11151)
360
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000361Add 'keywordprg' to various ftplugin files:
362https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/5566
363
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000364PR #11579 to add visualtext(), return Visually selected text.
365
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100366PR #12032: Support Python 3 stable ABI.
367
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000368Stray characters in the shell #11719, caused by requesting a response for:
369- XT key sequences
370- Whether modifyOtherKeys is active
371- Whether kitty keyboard protocol is active
372Can we not request XT key sequences, or reduce them drastically?
373
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000374Issue #10512: Dynamic loading broken with Perl 5.36
375Damien has a patch (2022 Dec 4)
376
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100377Request #11965: Allow several "%=" items in 'statusline', makes it possible
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000378to have text in the center.
379
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000380Add some kind of ":whathappend" command and functions to make visible what the
381last few typed keys and executed commands are. To be used when the user
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000382wonders what went wrong. Could also be used for statistics #12046.
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000383- typed keys - Normal mode command - like what is recorded in a register and
384 displayed by 'showcmd'.
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000385- register used - #12063
Bram Moolenaard13166e2022-11-18 21:49:57 +0000386- executed command lines
387- with more verbosity: what scripts/functions/autocommands were executed
388
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100389NFA regexp does not handle composing characters well: #10286
390 [ɔ̃] matches both ɔ and ɔ̃
391 \(ɔ\|ɔ̃\) matches ɔ and not ɔ̃
392
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000393Is there a way to make 'autowriteall' make a clean exit when the xterm is
394closed? (Dennis Nazic says files are preserved, okt 28). Perhaps handle TERM
395like HUP?
396
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000397Better terminal emulator support:
398 > Somehow request the terminfo entry from the terminal itself. The $TERM
399 value then is only relevant for whether this feature is supported or not.
400 Replaces the xterm mechanism to request each entry separately. #6609
401 Multiplexers (screen, tmux) can request it to the underlying terminal, and
402 pass it on with modifications.
403 How to get all the text quickly (also over ssh)? Can we use a side channel?
404 > When xterm supports sending an Escape sequence for the Esc key, should
405 have a way to request this state. That could be an XTGETTCAP entry, e.g.
406 "k!". Add "esc_sends_sequence" flag.
407 If we know this state, then do not pretend going out of Insert mode in
408 vgetorpeek(), where kitty_protocol_state is checked.
409 > If a response ends up in a shell command, one way to avoid this is by
410 sending t_RV last and delay starting a shell command until the response
411 has been seen.
412 > Can we use the req_more_codes_from_term() mechanism with more terminals?
413 Should we repeat it after executing a shell command?
414 Can also add this to the 'keyprotocol' option: "mok2+tcap"
415 > In the table of terminal names pointing to the list of termcap entries,
416 add an optional additional one. So that "xterm-kitty" can first load
417 "xterm" and then add "kitty" entries.
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000418
Bram Moolenaar2ecbe532022-07-29 21:36:21 +0100419Using "A" and "o" in manually created fold (in empty buffer) does not behave
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000420consistently (James McCoy, #10698)
Bram Moolenaar2ecbe532022-07-29 21:36:21 +0100421
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100422In a timer callback, when using ":echo" and then input() the message is
423overwritten. Could use ":echowin" and call redraw_cmd() in get_user_input().
424#11299
425
426Syntax include problem: #11277. Related to Patch 8.2.2761
427
Bram Moolenaar05a80612022-08-01 15:09:53 +0100428To avoid flicker: add an option that when a screen clear is requested, instead
429of clearing it draws everything and uses "clear to end of line" for every line.
Bram Moolenaar48c3f4e2022-08-08 15:42:38 +0100430Resetting 't_ut' already causes this?
Bram Moolenaar05a80612022-08-01 15:09:53 +0100431
Bram Moolenaarb529cfb2022-07-25 15:42:07 +0100432When scheme can't be found by configure there is no clear "not found" message:
433 configure:5769: checking MzScheme install prefix
Bram Moolenaarb59ae592022-11-23 23:46:31 +0000434 configure:5781: result:
Bram Moolenaarb529cfb2022-07-25 15:42:07 +0100435
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100436Can "CSI nr X" be used instead of outputting spaces? Is it faster? #8002
437
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +0100438Typed keys invisible after calling interrupt() from a timer. #10631
439
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +0100440With a window height of 6 and 'scrolloff' set to 3, using "j" does not scroll
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100441evenly. (#10545) Need to handle this in scroll_cursor_bot().
Bram Moolenaar63f32602022-06-09 20:45:54 +0100442
Bram Moolenaar89a9c152021-08-29 21:55:35 +0200443Idea: when typing ":e /some/dir/" and "dir" does not exist, highlight in red.
444
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100445":set shellpipe&" and ":set shellredir&" should use the logic from
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200446initialization to figure out the default value from 'shell'. Add a test for
447this.
448
Bram Moolenaar86b48162022-12-06 18:20:10 +0000449Support translations for plugins: #11637
450- Need a tool like xgettext for Vim script, generates a .pot file.
451 Need the equivalent of _() and N_(), perhaps TR() and TRN().
452- Instructions for how to create .po files and translate.
453- Script or Makefile to generate .mo files.
454- Instructions and perhaps a script to install the .mo files in the right
455 place.
456- Add variant of gettext() that takes a package name.
457
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100458With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
459(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
460need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
461IDEA: when drawing the text, store the text byte index in ScreenLinesIdx[].
462When converting screen column to text position use this.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100463The line number can be obtained from win->w_lines[].
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100464
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +0100465Version of getchar() that does not move the cursor - #10603 Use a separate
466argument for the new flag.
467
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100468test_arglist func Test_all_not_allowed_from_cmdwin() hangs on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200469
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100470Can we add highlighting to ":echowindow"?
471
Bram Moolenaar47003982021-12-05 21:54:04 +0000472Information for a specific terminal (e.g. gnome, tmux, konsole, alacritty) is
473spread out. Make a section with copy/paste examples of script and pointers to
474more information.
475
Bram Moolenaar90df4b92021-07-07 20:26:08 +0200476Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
477work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
478Also see #8487 for an example.
479
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200480Request to use "." for the cursor column in search pattern \%<.c and \%<.v.
481(#8179)
482
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +0000483":filter set termcap" only filters terminal codes, not keys. (#9297)
484
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +0100485Add an option to restrict 'incsearch' to not scroll the view. (Tavis Ormandy)
486
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000487Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
488
Bram Moolenaar519cc552021-11-16 19:18:26 +0000489When 'term' starts with "foot" then default t_TI and t_TE to the values used
490for the builtin xterm termcap.
491
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +0100492Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
Bram Moolenaare0e39172021-01-25 21:14:57 +0100493(#4087) Did patch 8.2.2379 help?
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100494Also, z= in German on a long word can take a very long time, but CTRL-C to
495interrupt does not work. Where to add ui_breakcheck()?
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000496New English spell files also have very slow suggestions.
Bram Moolenaar9fbdbb82022-09-27 17:30:34 +0100497
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100498When 'spelloptions' is "camel" then zG doesn't work on some words.
499(Gary Johnson, 17 Oct 2022)
500
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100501'cdpath' problems:
502- Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
503- Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME.
504 (2006 Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
505- Completion of ":cd" doesn't use 'cdpath'. #374.
506
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200507Make "g>" and "g<" in Visual mode move the text right or left.
508Also for a block selection. #8558
509
Bram Moolenaar1588bc82022-03-08 21:35:07 +0000510When using dictionary insert completion with 'ignorecase', the leading capital
511in a word should be preserved.
512
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200513Add optional argument to virtcol() that specifies "start", "cursor" or "end"
514to tell which value from getvvcol() should be used. (#7964)
515Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
516inconsistent with the documentation.
517
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100518globpath() does not use 'wildignorecase' at all? (related to #8350)
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200519
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +0100520mksession uses :buffer instead of :edit in one place but not another. #10629
521
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200522Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
523with 'termguicolors'. #1740
524
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200525Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660. Asked for a PR.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200526
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100527Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc.
528
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200529Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co
530changes.
531
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100532Add ??= operator, "a ??= b" works like "a = a ?? b". #10343
533
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +0100534When ":redir" is used while already active, the previous one is ended. But
535when redirecting to a local variable (function or script) storing the value
536won't work. At least give an error. Is there a way to make it work?
537#10616
538
Bram Moolenaar76db9e02022-11-09 21:21:04 +0000539Completion for ":runtime" should show valid values, not what's in the current
540directory. (#11447)
541
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +0100542Add a "description" property to mappings. #12205
543
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200544Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE.
545This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need
546to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011
547
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200548Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab".
549Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901)
550
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200551Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
552Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
553
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +0000554Add a v:register_used variable, which has the name of the register used for
555the last command, e.g. put. #12003
556
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200557Make the jumplist behave like a tag stack. (#7738) Should there be a more
558time bound navigation, like with undo?
559
Bram Moolenaard799daa2022-06-20 11:17:32 +0100560For testing, make a copy of ml_line_ptr instead of pointing it into the data
561block, so that valgrind can do out of bounds check. Set ML_LINE_DIRTY flag or
562add ML_LINE_ALLOCED.
563
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100564Changing a capturing group to non-capturing changes the result: #7607
565 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
566 aaa
567 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\%(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
568 aaa bbb
569Should also work without any group:
570 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '.\{-1,}\>\|.*')
571 aaa bbb (should be aaa)
572
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200573Should add a match/str/list/pos method that also returns the test and position
574of submatches. #8355
575
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200576Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200577Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200578(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
579Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
580- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
581 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
582 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
583- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
584 covered by the above change.
585So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
586same thing.
587Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100588Perhaps also related: #5147
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200589
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200590Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054)
591Is OK when syntax HL is active.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200592
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200593Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count.
594Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096)
595After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should
596work.
597
598Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of
599autocommands be made faster? (#7056)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200600
Bram Moolenaarf1dcd142022-12-31 15:30:45 +0000601Using a search pattern containing "\%V" and 'hlsearch' set keeps old matches
602when the Visual area changes. #11694. Do a redraw when starting a Visual
603selection?
604
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200605Append in Visual block mode inserts the wrong character.
606Test_visual_block_mode() already has the proper check, which is commented out.
607(#8288)
608
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200609Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
610 replace this:
611 let left = GetLeftFunc()
612 let right = GetRightFunc()
613 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
614 by:
615 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200616Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
617
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200618Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI?
619
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100620":pedit" ignores the local working directory when 'pvp' is set (#7267)
621
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200622Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
623(#6539)
624
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100625File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
626
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100627A syntax plugin cannot use autocommands, it could be sourced from setting
Bram Moolenaare1dc76f2022-06-25 18:01:32 +0100628'syntax' in a modeline. Add a function that indicates whether "secure"
Bram Moolenaar8cc5b552022-06-23 13:04:20 +0100629and/or "sandbox" are set.
630
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200631Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
632character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar6ebe4f92022-10-28 20:47:54 +0100633Auto-formatting comments joins a following non-comment line when the comment
634ends in a space. (Adam Levy, 18 Oct 2022)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200635
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100636When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
637(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
638
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200639With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
640'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100641
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200642Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
643which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
644#6127
645
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200646Add a cterm attribute for "dimmed" or "faint" text. (#8269)
647
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200648When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
649":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
650Might be related to #6088.
651
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200652Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt".
653(#6919)
654
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200655When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
656Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
657(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
658
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100659Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
660(Paul Jolly, #5656)
661Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100662 Later more requests for what to track.
663 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
664 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
665 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100666BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100667Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100668
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200669Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
670
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200671Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
672
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100673:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
674Dec 19)
675
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200676Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
677Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
678
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100679Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
680May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200681Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
682remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100683Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200684
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100685When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
686the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
687
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200688Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100689Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
690in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200691Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
692(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200693
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200694Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
695that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
696Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100697
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100698Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100699
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200700":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
701find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
702
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200703Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
704
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100705Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
706
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100707"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
708
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200709Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
710Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
711
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100712Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
713
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200714When a help file is opened that doesn't have "ft=help" in the modeline then
715the FileType is first set to "text" before it is set to "help". (#8099)
716
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200717Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
718(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
719
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200720When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
721default one. #4698
722
723When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
724with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
725
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100726Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200727Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100728
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200729Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200730fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
731
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200732Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200733
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200734Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
735- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
736- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100737- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200738
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100739Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200740Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100741
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100742When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
743when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
744gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
745input buffer. (#5302)
746
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200747Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200748
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100749Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
7502007 Feb 18)
751Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
752
753Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
754Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
755
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200756Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
757
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200758Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200759Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
760Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200761
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200762Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
763files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
764Include part of #3242?
765
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200766Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
767Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
768Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
769
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200770Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
771t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
Bram Moolenaardd60c362023-02-27 15:49:53 +0000772Also make 'scrollopt' tab-local, remove "hor" only for the current tab page.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200773
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100774Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
775Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
776
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200777'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
778
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100779Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
780
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200781Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
782
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100783When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
784in a long line. #5189
785
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200786The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
787Give a few examples. (#4288)
788
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200789Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200790work, results in "E479: No match". (#4610)
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200791
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02007927 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
793 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
794 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200795Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200796
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100797Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
798read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
799be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
800
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200801Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
802
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200803Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
804
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100805Color schemes:
806NOTE: modernizing the default colorschemes _AND_ introducing new ones is now
807a project in its own right: https://github.com/vim/colorschemes. Feel free to
808reach out if you want to lend a hand.
809- Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
810 https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
811- Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
812 - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200813http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100814- Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
815 - monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
816 - seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
817 - gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
818 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
819 - janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
820 - apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
821- Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
822 - [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
823 - [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
824- Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
825 - Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200826
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100827Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
828Mar 5)
829
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200830Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
831on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
832
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200833Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
834in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
835buffer didn't change at all.
836
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100837When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
838But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
839similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
840
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200841C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
842(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
843
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100844Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
845added?
846
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200847Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
848negative. (see #4326)
849
850'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
851`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
852tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
853:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
854
Bram Moolenaar3c053a12022-10-16 13:11:12 +0100855When opening a file, allow for specifying the initial column position:
856 vim +12:5 file.txt line 12 column 5
857 :edit +12:5 file.txt
858Should probably use the column as the character index.
859
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200860This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
861 vim: syn=nosyntax
862
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100863Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
864#2948. (related to #1512?)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100865Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
866Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
867balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
8682018 Sep 14)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100869
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200870More warnings from static analysis:
871https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200872
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200873Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
874
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200875Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
876internals of the dict structure.
877
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100878nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
879
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200880Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
881change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
882them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
883
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100884When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
885case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
886For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
887
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200888Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
889(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
890expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200891
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200892Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
893 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
894 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
895
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100896Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100897punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100898
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200899Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
900drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
901
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100902When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
903scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
904using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
905
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200906Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
907unified diff (list of lines).
908
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100909When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
910kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
911when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
912
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100913Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
914(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100915
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100916Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
917highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200918And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
919'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100920
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +0100921Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, make them empty, keep redirect.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100922Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
923
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200924Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
925Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
926Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
927
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100928Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
929Feedback from someone who uses this?
930
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200931Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
932Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
933values.
934
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100935Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200936- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
937- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
938- omit diff.exe from distribution
939- Can we make this show differences within a line?
940- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200941
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200942Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
943
944When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
945includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
946
947Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200948Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200949
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100950Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
951
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200952Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
953window for the buffer.
954
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +0000955Compiler warning (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +0100956- undefined left shift in eval_string(), before hex2nr() (#2250)
957 Use unsigned for "nr".
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100958
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100959Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
960Oct 28)
961
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200962Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
963Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100964Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
965Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200966
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200967Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
968
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200969Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
970behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
971(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
972
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200973Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
974script or function.
975
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +0100976Using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200977E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
978does nothing otherwise?
979
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200980MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
981If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
982(wait a little while).
983CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100984
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200985Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
986MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
9872017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
988receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
989
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100990Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100991Jan 15, #2555)
992
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100993Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
994Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
995applying the diff, etc.
996
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100997User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
998word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100999
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +01001000Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001001
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001002Implement option_save() and option_restore():
1003option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
1004 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
1005 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
1006 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
1007 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
1008 be called when the same window is the current window.
1009 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
1010 the local options won't be restored.
1011
1012option_save({list}) *option_save()*
1013 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
1014 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
1015 let s:saved_options = option_save([
1016 \ 'ignorecase',
1017 \ 'iskeyword',
1018 \ ])
1019 au <buffer> BufLeave *
1020 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
1021< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
1022 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
1023 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
1024 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001025 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
1026 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
1027 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +01001028 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001029
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001030"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
1031directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
1032Also see #1689.
1033
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001034When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +01001035highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001036
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001037No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
10382017 Dec 26, #2501)
1039
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001040A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
1041
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001042Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
1043
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02001044A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
1045Mention where they were defined somewhere.
1046
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001047ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1048
1049Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
1050
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001051Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
1052Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
1053
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001054Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
1055in #846)
1056Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
1057
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001058When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
1059redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001060
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001061In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
1062(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
1063
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001064Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
1065neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001066
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001067Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
1068Nov 21)
1069
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001070When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocommand event isn't
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +02001071triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
1072set_color_count().
1073
1074Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
1075responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
1076
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001077When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
1078CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
1079Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1080always nested.
1081
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001082matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1083
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001084Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1085
Bram Moolenaar6c391a72021-09-09 21:55:11 +02001086'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
108720)
1088
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001089MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001090for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1091
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001092Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001093(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001094
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +02001095Test more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001096
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001097Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001098
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001099Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1100defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1101Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1102
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001103After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
110413, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001105
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001106When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1107line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1108
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001109Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1110
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001111Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1112behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1113
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001114'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1115
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001116The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1117
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001118Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1119#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1120
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001121X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1122pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1123clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1124Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1125Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1126clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001127Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001128
1129Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1130
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001131Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1132attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +02001133that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001134
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001135Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1136(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1137
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001138Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1139buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1140Also fixes #2166?
1141
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001142Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1143possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1144
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001145When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1146case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1147
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001148Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1149existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1150Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1151
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001152MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1153Jul 4)
1154
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001155Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1156Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1157This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1158Christian cannot reproduce it.
1159
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001160Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1161wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1162Or is this not an actual problem?
1163
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001164Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1165
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001166Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1167
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001168'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1169#1736)
1170
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001171Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
11728, #1690)
1173
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001174Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1175
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001176assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1177it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1178
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001179Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1180for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001181
1182Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1183(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1184Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1185later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1186Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1187mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001188Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1189mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001190maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001191
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001192Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001193plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1194be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1195
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001196Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1197 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1198 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001199
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001200json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001201What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001202
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001203Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1204
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001205import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1206(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1207
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001208Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1209Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001210Another example in #1309
1211
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001212Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1213#1330)
1214
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001215Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1216
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001217Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1218highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1219
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001220Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1221Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1222
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001223Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1224key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1225 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1226 echo keytrans(xx)
1227 <C-Home>
1228
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001229Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1230(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1231Make a function to check for function-like type?
1232
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001233Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1234 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001235 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001236
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001237Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1238somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1239
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001240The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1241"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1242Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1243
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001244Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1245
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001246Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1247about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001248Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1249
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001250":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001251vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1252
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001253Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001254E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001255Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001256
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001257Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1258Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1259
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001260Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001261Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001262
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001263Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1264(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001265
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001266Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1267
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001268Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1269anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1270
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001271Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001272E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001273
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001274Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1275(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1276
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001277Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1278
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001279On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1280separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1281
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001282Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1283
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001284Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1285
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +02001286Support sort(l, 'F'), convert strings to float. (#7857)
Bram Moolenaar9faec4e2021-02-27 16:38:07 +01001287
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001288sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
12894#1038)
1290
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001291sort() does not use 'smartcase' for the skip pattern, even though 'ignorecase'
1292is used. (Filipe Brandenburger, #7322)
1293
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001294+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001295- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001296- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1297 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1298 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001299- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1300 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001301- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1302 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001303- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1304 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1305- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1306 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1307- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001308- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1309 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001310- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1311- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1312 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1313 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1314- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1315- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1316- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1317 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1318 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1319- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1320 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1321- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1322 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1323 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1324
1325Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001326- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1327 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1328 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1329 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001330- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1331 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001332- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1333 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1334- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1335 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1336- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1337 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1338 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1339 LC_CTYPE
1340- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1341 matches everywhere.
1342- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1343 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1344- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1345- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1346 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1347- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001348- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender,
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001349 2013 Dec 11)
1350- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1351 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1352- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1353- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1354 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1355- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1356- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1357- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1358- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1359 2015 Feb 7)
1360- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1361 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1362 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1363 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1364 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1365- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1366- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1367- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1368- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1369 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1370 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1371 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1372- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1373 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1374- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1375 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1376 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1377 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1378
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001379Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1380doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1381Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001382Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001383E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1384
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001385cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1386
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001387:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1388
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001389Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1390
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001391ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1392Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001393
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001394Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1395Jul 25, #948)
1396
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001397Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1398names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1399Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1400the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1401
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001402MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1403Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001404
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001405Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1406times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1407
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001408Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1409
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001410We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1411the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1412
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001413Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1414
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001415When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1416emoji_width table has only one entry.
1417
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001418It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1419Reject the value? #710.
1420
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001421When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1422Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1423
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001424Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1425No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001426
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001427Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1428(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001429
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01001430Zero-out crypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001431
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001432Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1433https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001434Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001435
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001436Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1437but the reference remains valid.
1438
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001439Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001440interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1441Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1442interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1443result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001444
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001445Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1446
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001447Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1448
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001449Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1450Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1451
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001452exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1453Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1454
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001455Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1456'iskeyword' for syntax.
1457
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001458Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1459It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1460Add configure check?
1461Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1462Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1463Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1464
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001465Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1466Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1467
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001468Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1469Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1470
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001471Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1472(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1473
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001474When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1475restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1476Do not trigger the event?
1477
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001478Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1479With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1480
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001481Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001482
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001483Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1484
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001485Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001486Only remembers one error.
1487
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001488GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001489
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001490Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1491(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001492
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001493Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1494github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001495 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001496Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001497
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001498Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001499
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001500Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001501comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001502
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001503Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1504
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001505MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1506wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1507
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001508Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1509specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1510
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001511Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1512(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1513
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001514Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001515'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1516before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001517
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001518C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1519and also line continuation after #include.
1520I can't recommend it though.
1521
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001522Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1523(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1524
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001525To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1526library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1527
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001528Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
152930)
1530
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001531MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1532(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1533
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001534The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
153524): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001536
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001537":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1538effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1539
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001540":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15419)
1542
1543The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1544wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1545
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001546Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001547Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001548
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001549When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1550the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1551
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001552Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001553slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1554inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1555
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001556ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
15572014 Sep 11)
1558
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001559Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1560(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1561
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001562When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1563'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1564
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001565Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1566Work in progress.
1567
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001568Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1569when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1570
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001571Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1572Is this right?
1573
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001574Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1575(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1576Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1577
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001578Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1579Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001580
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001581Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1582Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1583
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001584Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1585
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001586Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01001587Would require reading attributes from the original file with listxattr() and
1588getxattr() and adding them to the new file.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001589
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001590Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1591OK to not block marks?
1592
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001593Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1594
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001595When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1596(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1597
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001598Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001599
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001600Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1601(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1602
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001603When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1604any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1605
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001606Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1607(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1608
1609Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1610
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001611Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1612Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1613was already defined.
1614(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1615
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001616Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1617
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001618Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1619(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1620
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001621Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1622(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1623
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001624Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1625
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001626When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1627these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1628window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1629
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001630Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1631should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1632history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1633Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1634
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001635"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1636Jun 8)
1637
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001638Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1639insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1640
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001641No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1642
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001643Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1644(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1645Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1646arguments.
1647
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001648Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1649
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001650Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1651right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001652its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001653
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001654Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1655
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001656This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1657 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1658This neither: (ZyX)
1659 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1660
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001661'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1662Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1663from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001664
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001665Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1666https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001667Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001668Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1669package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001670Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1671Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1672User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001673- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1674 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1675 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001676- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1677- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1678 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1679 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1680 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1681 on vim.org.
1682- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1683 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1684- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1685- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1686- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1687- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1688Implementation:
1689- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1690 plugin separate.
1691- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1692 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1693 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1694- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1695 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1696- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1697 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1698 installing.
1699Out of scope:
1700- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1701- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1702 useful).
1703
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001704When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1705menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1706
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001707Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1708(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1709
1710":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1711various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001712
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001713Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001714(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1715
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001716VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1717instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1718
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001719Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001720Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001721Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001722
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001723Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1724
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001725Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001726
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001727Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1728
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017297 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1730 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1731 "lucida_console:h8").
1732Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1733
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001734:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1735
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001736Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1737
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001738Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1739
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001740When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1741(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1742
1743Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001744Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001745
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001746Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1747
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001748The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1749(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1750Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1751
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001752Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1753Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1754reliably?
1755
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001756Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1757(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1758
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001759Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1760(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001761Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1762(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1763try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1764try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001765
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001766Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17672013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001768
1769Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1770
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001771Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1772carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1773
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001774Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1775highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1776
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001777Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001778
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001779Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200178028) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001781
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001782Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1783
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001784- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1785 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1786Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001787
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001788Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001789
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001790Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1791Or use expand('<sid>')?
1792
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001793Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1794
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001795Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1796
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001797b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
17987)
1799
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001800Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1801compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1802
1803Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1804Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1805vim.bindeval().
1806
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001807Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18082012 Aug 4)
1809
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001810Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1811(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1812
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001813Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1814But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1815
1816Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1817Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1818Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001819
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001820'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001821
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001822Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001823of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1824
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001825The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1826Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1827But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001828
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001829When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1830is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1831
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001832URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001833- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001834- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1835 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1836
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001837Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001838New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001839
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001840Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1841
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001842Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1843
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001844Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1845Apr 18)
1846
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001847Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1848And one for gui_x11.txt.
1849
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001850":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1851finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1852Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1853
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001854Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1855
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001856Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1857
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001858Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1859they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1860
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001861Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1862
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001863Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1864Nov 20)
1865
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001866Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001867Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001868
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001869`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001870(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1871
1872Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1873
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001874BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1875Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1876
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001877Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1878Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1879
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001880Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1881
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001882On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
18832012 Jun 19)
1884
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001885'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1886'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1887Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001888Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001889
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001890Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1891New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1892
1893Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1894Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1895
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001896Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1897Jan 19)
1898
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001899Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1900discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1901meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001902
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001903"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001904Oct 26)
1905
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001906Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1907
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001908Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1909
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001910When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1911(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1912
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001913When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1914then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1915from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1916
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001917Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1918":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
191915)
1920
1921Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1922
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001923BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1924cleared. See test64.
1925
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001926On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
192764 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1928right type.
1929
1930string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1931(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1932
1933When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1934(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001935When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1936following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1937(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001938
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001939When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1940doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1941
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001942Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1943
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001944When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1945indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1946the help file.
1947
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001948After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1949Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1950
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001951"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001952
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001953Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1954
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001955Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001956
1957Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
19582010 Dec 18)
1959
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001960With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1961number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1962Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1963
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001964Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1965Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1966
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020019678 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1968Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1969
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001970Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1971one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1972the match scrolls into view.
1973
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020019747 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1975Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1976Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1977
19789 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1979 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1980Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1981
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001982Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1983Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1984
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001985In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1986or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1987sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1988
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001989Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1990Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1991
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001992Wish for NetBeans commands:
1993 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1994
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +020019957.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1996there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1997do?
1998
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001999New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2000- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002001- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002002 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2003
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002004"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20052011 Feb 27)
2006
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002007Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2008^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2009
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002010When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2011exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20129) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2013
2014g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2015the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2016
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002017Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2018crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2019
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002020Regexp engine performance:
2021- Profiling:
2022 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2023 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2024 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2025 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2026 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2027 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2028- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2029- Performance tests:
2030 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2031 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2032 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2033 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2034 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2035 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2036 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2037 'hlsearch'.
2038 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2039 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2040 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2041 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2042
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002043Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2044Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2045
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002046'beval' option should be global-local.
2047
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002048Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002049
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002050setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002051
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002052With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
20532010 Oct 24)
2054
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002055Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2056
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002057When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2058Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2059
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002060":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2061
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002062'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2063
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002064C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2065checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2066Issue 46.
2067
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002068Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2069gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2070
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002071":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2072accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2073
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002074Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2075setwinvar().
2076
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002077Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002078
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002079When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2080instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2081
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002082Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2083Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2084Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002085
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002086Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002087Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2088
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002089CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2090the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01002091FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Philippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002092
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002093Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2094Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2095
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002096Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2097Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2098
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002099Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2100
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002101Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2102non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002103
2104iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2105Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2106or replace with a character and continue?
2107
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002108Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2109Requires configure check for localtime().
2110Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2111
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002112Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2113
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002114Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2115Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2116path.
2117
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002118Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002119Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002120
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002121'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2122
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002123":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2124like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2125
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002126Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2127https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002128
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002129Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2130
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002131Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2132characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2133
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002134Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2135
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002136Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2137 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2138
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002139For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002140line argument -noregister.
2141
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002142When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2143missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2144
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002145When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2146doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002147
2148Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2149(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2150Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2151There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2152Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2153
2154":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2155highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2156to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2157
2158Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2159Probably needs a bit of work.
2160
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002161List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002162Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2163
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002164Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2165
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002166Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2167
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002168Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2169
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002170Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2171on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2172
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002173Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
21742009 Jul 18)
2175
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002176Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2177window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2178Needs more work.
2179
2180Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2181
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002182When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2183few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2184
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002185'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002186(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2187
2188Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2189J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2190
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002191When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2192for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2193
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002194":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2195because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2196ex_docmd.c.
2197
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002198Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002199Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2200
2201string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2202for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2203
2204Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2205
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002206Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
22072009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2208
2209Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2210
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002211Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2212are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2213Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2214Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2215that doesn't have a window.
2216
2217When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2218doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2219
2220getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2221displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2222
2223":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2224
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002225Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2226
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002227Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2228does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2229
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002230opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2231height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002232very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002233
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002234Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2235char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2236
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002237This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2238
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002239Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2240messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2241es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
22422009 Jan 26)
2243
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002244When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002245in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2246Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2247
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002248Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2249a modeline.
2250
2251Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2252Sergey Khorev)
2253
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002254Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2255(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2256
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002257shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002258'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2259Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2260unix-like shell?
2261
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002262Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2263register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2264(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2265
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002266Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2267Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2268
2269Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2270make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2271
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002272When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2273still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2274
2275"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2276(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2277
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002278MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2279doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2280probably causes this.
2281
2282'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020022832009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002284
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002285Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2286":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2287option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2288is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002289
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002290":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2291first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002292Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002293
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002294Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2295anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2296
2297On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2298doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2299Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2300Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2301
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002302When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2303'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2304fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2305the buffer to be unmodified.
2306Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2307another look at it.
2308
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002309c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2310(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2311
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002312You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2313error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2314Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2315at the other match for 0xBF.
2316
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002317When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2318argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2319
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002320Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2321backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2322
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002323When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2324line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2325
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002326":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2327Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2328
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002329When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2330either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2331put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2332
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002333Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2334Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2335Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2336Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2337(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2338
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002339Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2340
2341ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002342
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002343Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2344(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2345escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2346an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002347This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2348July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002349Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2350work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2351
2352When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
235331)
2354
2355Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2356work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2357Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002358
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002359Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002360multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002361(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2362
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002363Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2364Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2365'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2366
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002367Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2368Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2369
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002370Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2371Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2372
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020023738 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2374 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2375 several).
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +02002376
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002377The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002378 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002379 0x2217, star
2380 0x2500, bar
2381 0x26ab, circle
2382
2383Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2384line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2385
2386GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2387Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2388
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002389C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2390with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2391Try to reproduce at work.
2392
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002393Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2394Is there a way to list all the files first?
2395
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002396Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2397(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2398
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002399Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
24001)
2401
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002402":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2403Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2404
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002405Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2406Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2407
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002408When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2409and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2410
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002411Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2412 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2413
2414New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2415
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002416":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2417a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2418
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002419Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2420other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2421
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002422The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2423appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2424matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2425
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002426When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2427character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2428'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2429(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2430
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002431Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2432Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002433
2434More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2435
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002436Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2437http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2438
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002439Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2440No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2441
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002442Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2443terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002444
2445Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2446
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002447Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2448but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2449that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002450
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002451Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2452Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2453
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002454Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2455popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2456size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2457This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2458
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002459When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2460parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2461neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2462particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2463Jun 3)
2464However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2465the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002466
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002467A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2468Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2469
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002470Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2471Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2472
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002473Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2474switch list is noticed:
2475 switch (i)
2476 {
2477 case 1:
2478 foobar:
2479 }
2480
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002481Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2482
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002483Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2484with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2485go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2486moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2487
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002488Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002489GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002490Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2491argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2492(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2493
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002494Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2495(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2496
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002497Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
24982007 Feb 8)
2499
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002500Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2501set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002502
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002503Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2504
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002505Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2506Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2507New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2508patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2509
2510Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2511Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2512
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002513Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002514label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2515
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002516Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2517with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2518Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002519
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002520Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2521
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002522Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2523Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2524only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2525
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002526Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2527Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002528Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002529properly?
2530
2531Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
25322007 Jun 21)
2533
2534When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2535Jun 18)
2536
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002537C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2538
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002539":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2540
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002541When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002542error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002543
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002544GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002545use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2546
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002547Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2548if_ruby.c.
2549
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002550":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2551
2552The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2553it in keep_msg?
2554
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002555Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002556error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002557name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2558
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002559Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2560longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002561
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002562Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2563Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2564Also for ":w" without a file name.
2565The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002566
2567"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2568Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2569
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002570VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2571directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2572(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2573
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002574VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2575
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002576input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2577name?
2578
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002579Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2580
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002581When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2582(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002583Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002584will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2585
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002586gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2587This also fails with --remote.
2588
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002589When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
25902008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2591all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2592
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002593aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2594
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002595When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2596(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2597
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002598Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2599the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2600
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002601GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2602
2603Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2604Jun 5)
2605
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002606Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
26072008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2608Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2609
2610In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2611but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2612Jul 22)
2613
2614There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2615
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002616Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2617moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2618that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2619
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002620The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2621
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002622When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002623cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2624the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2625
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002626These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2627 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2628 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2629 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2630
2631Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2632partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2633
2634In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2635buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2636reload it then?
2637
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002638For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2639
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002640Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2641Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2642
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002643Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2644 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2645 set background=dark
2646This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2647color is, not reset it.
2648
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002649Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2650start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2651show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2652middle?
2653
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002654Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2655
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002656When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2657current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2658the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2659
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002660When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2661Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2662
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002663Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2664Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2665
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002666A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2667Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2668
2669Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2670Dara, 2006 June 21)
2671
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002672Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2673number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2674
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002675After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2676the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2677
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002678Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002679
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002680Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010026812008 Sep 29)
2682
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002683In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2684check the result of has("patch13").
2685
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002686Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2687restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2688
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002689Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2690and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2691
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002692Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2693put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2694
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002695In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2696can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2697
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002698When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2699differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002700
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002701The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2702be only one.
2703
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002704Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002705"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2706name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2707Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002708
2709Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2710(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2711
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002712Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2713as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2714
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002715Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
271623)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002717
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002718":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2719tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2720Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002721
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002722When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2723text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2724latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2725
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002726In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2727VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
27282007 Oct 16)
2729
2730TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2731Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2732
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002733Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002734
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002735When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2736typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2737Sep 3, 11)
2738
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002739":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2740this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2741
2742When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2743Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2744restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2745
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002746Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2747'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2748(Kartik Agaram)
2749
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002750
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002751Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002752- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2753 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2754- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2755 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2756 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2757- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2758 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2759 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002760- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2761- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002762
2763
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002764More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002765- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2766 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002767- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002768- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2769 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002770- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2771- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2772- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2773 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2774 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002775- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002776- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2777 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2778- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2779 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2780- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2781 21)
2782- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2783 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2784- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2785 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +02002786- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill McCarthy, 2008
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002787 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002788- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2789 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2790 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2791 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2792 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002793- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002794
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002795Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000027969 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2797 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2798 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2799 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2800 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2801 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2802 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2803 (Alan Schmitt)
2804 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002805 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2806 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000028079 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002808 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000028098 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028107 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2811 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2812 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028138 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002814 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020028157 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002816 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2817- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002818 for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002819- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2820- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2821 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2822 been given values.
2823 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028247 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2825 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2826- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2827 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2828 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002829 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2830 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2831 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2832 (2003 May 13)
2833 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2834 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002835 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2836 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002837 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2838 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2839 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028407 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2841 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028427 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2843 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000028448 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +02002845 (unencrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028467 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
28478 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2848 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
28497 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2850 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028517 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2852- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2853 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2854 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002855- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2856 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2857- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01002858- Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2859 Await response to question to make the register writable.
2860
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002861
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02002862Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
2863- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
2864 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
2865
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02002866
2867Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaar71b6d332022-09-10 13:13:14 +01002868- List of common misspellings in English:
2869 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_of_common_misspellings/For_machines
2870 German:
2871 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Liste_von_Tippfehlern/F%C3%BCr_Maschinen
2872 There are other languages.
Bram Moolenaar48c3f4e2022-08-08 15:42:38 +01002873- [s does not find missing capital at start of the line. #10838
2874 Probably because the dot at the end of the previous line isn't seen.
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02002875- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap
2876 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away
2877 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line
2878 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col".
2879- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
2880- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single
2881 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
2882 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
2883 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be
2884 downloaded.
2885- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new
2886 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
2887- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers
2888 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2889- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character,
2890 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2891- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2892 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use
2893 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function.
2894
2895
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002896Quickfix/Location List:
2897- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
2898 #2999)
2899- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
2900 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
2901 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
2902 the quickfix buffer?
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002903- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
2904 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
2905- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
2906 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
2907 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002908- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2909- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
2910 2007 Jan 1)
2911- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2912 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
2913- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2914 errors. How do we get the rest?
29158 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2916 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
2917 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
2918 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
29197 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02002920 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002921
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002922Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002923- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2924 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029258 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2926 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2927 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2928 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2929 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2930 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029318 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2932 make Vim exit.
29337 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2934 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2935 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
29368 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2937 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2938 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
29396 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2940 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2941 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
29428 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2943 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2944 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2945 names in one buffer???
2946 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2947 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2948 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
29497 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2950 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2951 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002952 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2953 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029547 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2955 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
29567 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029577 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2958 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2959 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2960 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
29617 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
29627 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
29637 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2964 to the match with the tag? Option?
29657 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
29667 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2967 (Sayre).
29687 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2969 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029707 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2971 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2972 match. Nvi can do it too.
29737 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2974 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2975 line 1\ line 2\\
2976 line 2\ line 3\\
2977 . line4/
29786 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2979 the way the shell is started?
29806 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2981 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2982
2983
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01002984GTK+ GUI:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029859 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029868 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2987 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2988 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000029898 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2990 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2991 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029929 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2993 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2994 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2995 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002996- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2997 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2998 blocked for now.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01002999- Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat,
3000 #7082)
3001- Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
3002 - gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
3003- Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
3004 - Test_setbufvar_options()
3005 - Test_exit_callback_interval()
3006- When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
3007 g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when
3008 the timer expires.
3009- problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width. (Aaron
3010 Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
3011- Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013
3012 May 5)
3013- drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
3014 doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
3015- tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
3016- Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010
3017 Aug 9)
3018- When setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
3019 the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
3020- when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is maximized
3021 the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but doesn't
3022 work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5. Also: the window may no longer fit
3023 on the screen, thus the command line is not visible.
3024- Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn
3025 Winckler, 2010 Jun 30)
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003026
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003027
3028Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003029- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3030 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030318 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3032 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3033 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030346 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3035 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000030368 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3037 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3038 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030397 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3040 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3041 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030427 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3043 2004 May 9)
30448 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3045 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3046 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3047 MS-Windows 98?
3048 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3049 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3050 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3051 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030528 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3053 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3054 appears in the right position. (Webb)
30559 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3056 button doesn't give popup menu.
3057 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3058 selection.
3059 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3060 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3061 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
30628 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3063 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3064 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3065 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
30668 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3067 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3068 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030697 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3070 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003071 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030727 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3073 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030746 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
30758 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3076 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3077 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
30788 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3079 know which keyboard is being used?
30807 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3081 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3082 area (Koloseike).
30838 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3084 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3085 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3086 the font name).
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003087- When running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks. Was reported:
3088 cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
3089- Last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
3090 command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003091
3092
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01003093Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000030946 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3095 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3096 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3097 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3098 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030999 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3100 required and it's missing?
31018 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3102 wrong.
31039 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3104 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +010031059 XIM doesn't work properly for Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003106 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3107 flag.
31088 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3109 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3110 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
31118 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
31126 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3113 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3114 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3115 the tooltips work though...
31167 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3117 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
31188 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3119 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3120 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3121
3122
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003123Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003124- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031257 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3126 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031278 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3128 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3129 (Phillipps)
3130
3131
3132GUI:
31339 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3134 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
31359 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003136 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003137 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
31389 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3139 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031408 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3141 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3142 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
31438 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3144 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3145 of where it is processing the output.
3146 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
31478 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3148 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010031498 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000031508 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3151 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3152 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020031538 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031548 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3155 browse().
31568 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3157 use that code? Or use console dialog.
31588 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3159 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000031607 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3161 - regexp on/off
3162 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3163 when all buffers/directory is used:
3164 - filter for file name
3165 when directory is used:
3166 - subdirectory on/off
3167 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031688 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3169 to avoid problems.
31708 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3171 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3172 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
31738 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3174 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3175 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
31768 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3177 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031788 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
31797 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3180 visible.
31817 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3182 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
31837 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3184 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
31858 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3186 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
31878 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3188 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3189 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3190 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3191- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
31924 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3193 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3194 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3195
3196
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003197Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000031988 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3199 a good fallback, thus use:
3200 $HOME
3201 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3202 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3203 $USERPROFILE
3204 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3205 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3206 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3207 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032088 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3209 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
32108 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3211 Should work like in the GUI version.
32128 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3213 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
32148 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3215 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
32168 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3217 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3218 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032198 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3220 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3221 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3222
3223
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003224Win32 console:
32259 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3226 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3227 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3228 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3229 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3230 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3231 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3232 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3233 and the file is not saved.
3234 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3235 long name.
32368 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3237 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
32387 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3239 besides the console.
32408 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
32419 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3242 <C-S-i>?
32439 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3244 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
32458 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3246 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003247
3248
3249Amiga:
32508 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3251 sequences.
32529 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3253 backslashes in result.
32548 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3255 all options, using white space separation.
3256
3257
3258Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003259- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032607 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3261 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3262 (Jack)
3263 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032648 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3265 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032668 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
32678 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
32689 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3269 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032709 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003271- Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
3272- Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
3273- Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
3274- Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
3275 try the Cocoa version.
3276- After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
3277 changed or the window is resized.
3278- Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008 Mar
3279 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
3280- trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug 1)
3281 Reply by Ben Schmidt.
3282- Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003283
3284
3285"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003286- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3287 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000032889 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3289 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000032909 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003291 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3292 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032938 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3294 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3295 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003296 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032977 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3298 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
32998 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3300 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3301 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033027 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3303 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003304- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3305 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033068 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3307 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3308 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3309 using the horizontal scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033108 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3311 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
33128 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3313 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3314 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003315 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000033168 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3317 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3318 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033197 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3320 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3321 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3322 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033237 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3324 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3325 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
33267 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3327 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3328 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
33297 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3330 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033317 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3332 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033339 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3334 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3335 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3336 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3337 script can be called.
33388 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3339 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3340 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033418 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3342 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033438 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003344 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3345 configurable?
33468 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033478 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3348 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020033498 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3350 is a multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033518 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3352 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033539 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3354 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3355 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033567 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033578 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3358 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3359 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000033608 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3361 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003362 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3363 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033648 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3365 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
33669 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3367 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3368 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003369 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033707 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3371 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033727 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3373 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3374 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3375 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033768 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003377 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3378 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3379 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3380 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003381 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3382 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003383 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003384 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003385 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3386 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3387 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3388 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3389 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033908 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3391 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
33928 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3393 in lines that don't extend into the block?
33948 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3395 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3396 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
33978 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3398 'linebreak'.
33998 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3400 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3401 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034029 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3403 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3404 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3405 'magic' in history. (Margo)
34069 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3407 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034089 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
34099 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3410 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3411 cause another redraw, etc.
34128 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3413 must escape special characters in the pattern.
34148 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3415 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3416 ":w!!" for that.
3417 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3418 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003419 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034207 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3421 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3422 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3423 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3424 clipboard)
34257 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3426 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3427 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000034286 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3429 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3430 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034318 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3432 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
34338 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3434 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3435 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
34368 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3437 (e.g., ":w").
34388 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3439 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034408 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3441 script in do_cmdline().
34428 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3443 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3444 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3445 changes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034468 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3447 to skip catch_signals()?
34489 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3449 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3450 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3451 text?
34528 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3453 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
34548 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3455 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
34569 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3457 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3458 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3459 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3460 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
34617 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3462 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3463 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3464 in the list?
34658 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3466 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3467 instead of on button down.
34688 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034698 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3470 character is typed.
34718 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3472 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
34738 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3474 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
34758 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3476 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3477 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3478 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3479 cygwin bash.
34807 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3481 Remember flags for backreferences.
34827 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3483 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
34847 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3485 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
34868 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3487 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
34887 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3489 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034907 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3491 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3492 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
34937 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3494 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003495
3496
3497I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
34989 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3499 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3500 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003501
3502
3503Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003504- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3505 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3506 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003507- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3508 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3509 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3510 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3511 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3512 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003513 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003514- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3515 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003516 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003517 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3518 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3519 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003520- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3521 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3522 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3523 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3524 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3525- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3526 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3527 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3528- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3529 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003530- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003531- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3532 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3533 character gets the highlighting.
3534- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3535 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3536- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3537 (Jennings)
3538- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003539- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003540- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003541 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003542- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3543 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3544 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3545- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3546 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3547 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3548 (Benzinger).
3549- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3550 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3551 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3552- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3553 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3554- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3555 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3556- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3557 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3558 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3559 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3560 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3561 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3562- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3563 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3564 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003565- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3566 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3567 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003568- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3569 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3570 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3571- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3572 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3573- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3574 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003575- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3576 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3577 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3578 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3579 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3580- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3581 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3582 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3583- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3584 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3585 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003586- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3587 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 +00003588- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3589 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3590 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3591 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3592 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3593- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3594 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3595
3596--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3597 *extensions-improvements*
3598
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003599Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3600- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01003601 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma-separated as if
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003602 calling a function.
3603 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3604 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003605- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3606 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003607 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003608- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3609 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3610 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3611 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3612 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3613 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003614 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003615- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3616 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3617 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003618- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3619 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000036208 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3621 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3622 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3623 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003624- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3625 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003626
3627
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003628Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036298 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3630 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000036318 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3632 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000036338 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3634 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036358 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036369 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3637 - change to cursor position and curswant
3638 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3639 - how it works for folded lines
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003640 - how it works with multibyte characters
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036418 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3642 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3643 text.
36448 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
36457 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3646 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
36477 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3648 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003649 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003650- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3651
3652
3653Help:
3654- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3655 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3656- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3657 to the other matches.
3658- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003659- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3660 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003661 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003662 default contents.
3663- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3664 height for the help window (and other windows).
3665- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3666- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3667- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3668
3669
3670User Friendlier:
36718 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3672 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3673 Briscoe)
36748 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
36758 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3676 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3677 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
36788 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3679 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3680- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3681 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +00003682- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..." #9339
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036839 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3684 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3685 item?).
3686 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036878 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000036887 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3689 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3690 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000036918 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3692 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3693 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3694 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003695
3696
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003697Tab pages:
36989 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036997 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3700 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037018 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000037028 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037037 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037047 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003705 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000037068 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3707 tab pages.
37087 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3709
3710
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003711Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003712- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01003713 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003714- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3715 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3716 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3717- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3718 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003719- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3720 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3721 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003722- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3723 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3724 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003725- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003726 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3727 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000037288 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3729 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
37308 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3731 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
37328 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3733 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003734 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003735 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3736 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3737 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3738 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003739- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3740 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003741- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003742- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3743 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003744- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003745 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003746- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003747 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003748- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3749 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003750- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3751 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3752- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003753 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003754 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3755 in the affix file separately.
3756 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003757 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003758 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3759 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3760 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3761- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3762 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3763 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3764 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3765 Alternative:
3766 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3767 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3768 affix which is required.
3769- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003770 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003771- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3772 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3773 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003774- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3775 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003776- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3777 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3778- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037798 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3780 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3781 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3782 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003783- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3784 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3785 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3786 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037878 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3788 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037898 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
37908 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3791 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037927 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
37938 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3794 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3795 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3796 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003797
3798
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003799Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020038009 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3801 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020038028 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003803 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003804
3805Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003806 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3807 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaar2d8ed022022-05-21 13:08:16 +01003808- Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
3809 Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
3810 Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
3811 Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
3812- Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
3813- Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
3814 (Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
3815 Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
3816- Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the
3817 line number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
3818- Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe,
3819 2011 Jan 7)
3820- 'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session.
3821 (Teemu Likonen, March 19)
3822- With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't
3823 removed. (Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
3824- The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
3825- When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be
3826 folded. Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding,
3827 2010 Jun 9)
3828- When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
3829 indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous
3830 one. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
3831- Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038328 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3833 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020038348 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
3835 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038368 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3837 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3838 user aware of this?
38398 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3840 commands skip over a closed fold.
38418 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
38428 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038437 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003844- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3845 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3846 missing line goes unnoticed.
3847 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003848- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3849 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3850 smoother?
3851- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3852 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003853- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3854 file can contain:
3855 args version.c main.c
3856 edit version.c
3857 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003858- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003859- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3860 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003861- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3862 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003863- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3864 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003865- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003866
3867Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003868- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3869 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3870 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3871 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038729 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3873 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3874 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3875 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020038769 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3877 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3878 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038798 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3880 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3881 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3882 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3883 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3884 item.
38858 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003886 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3887 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038888 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3889 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038908 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3891 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3892 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038937 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3894 so that the user can fix the problem.
38958 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3896 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038979 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020038988 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters.
38998 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039008 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039017 Searching and composing characters:
3902 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003903 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3904 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039058 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
39068 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020039078 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003908 characters.
39098 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
39108 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3911 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
39127 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3913 'display' option to specify this.
39147 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3915 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3916- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3917 fontselector somehow.
3918- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3919 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3920- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3921 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3922- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3923 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3924 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3925 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3926 if a font exists?
3927- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003928 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003929- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3930 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003931- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003932 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3933 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003934 at a multibyte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003935 Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598)
3936 Scroll doesn't work correctly, why?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003937- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3938 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003939 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003940- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003941 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3942 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3943 But it's very complicated...
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01003944- Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai
3945 Weibull, 2008 May 14).
3946 Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003947
3948
3949Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000039507 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003951- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3952- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3953 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003954- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3955 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003956- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3957- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3958 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003959- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3960 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003961- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3962 units as for the margins.
3963- Support right-to-left text?
39648 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3965 color.
3966
3967
3968Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039698 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3970 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
39718 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3972 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
39738 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3974 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000039757 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3976 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039778 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3978 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3979 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039807 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3981 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3982 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039838 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
39849 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3985 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039867 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3987 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000039887 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3989 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039908 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3991 change this for each release.
39928 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3993 pattern, but not in the body.
39948 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3995 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3996 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039978 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010039988 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003999 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4000 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040018 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4002 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
40038 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4004 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004005 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040068 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4007 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4008 used.
40098 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4010 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
40118 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4012 re-insert the [] if possible.
40138 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4014 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000040158 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4016 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4017 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4018 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4019 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040208 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4021 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
40228 Support for deleting syntax items:
4023 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4024 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4025 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
40268 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4027 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4028 a '<'. (Fleiner)
40297 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4030 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4031 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
40327 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4033 detected.
40348 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004035 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040368 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4037 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040388 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
40398 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
40407 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4041 ":mkvimrc".
40428 Improve c.vim:
4043 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4044 "c_strict_ansi".
4045 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
40468 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4047 current line while in Insert mode.
40488 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4049 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
40508 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4051 display position.
40528 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4053 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4054 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
40558 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4056 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4057 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000040587 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4059 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4060 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4061 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4062 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040637 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4064 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4065 E.g. for this html:
4066 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040677 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
40687 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4069 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040707 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4071 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4072 completion?
40738 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4074 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
40757 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4076 select one of the sets.
40778 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4078 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4079 2, etc.
40808 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4081 highlighting (for "." command).
40828 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4083 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
40848 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
40857 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4086 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
40876 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4088 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4089- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4090 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4091- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004092- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4093 (for comment blocks).
4094- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4095 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4096 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4097 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4098 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4099 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4100 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4101 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4102 (Campbell)
4103 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4104 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
41057 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4106 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
41077 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4108 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4109 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
41107 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4111 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4112 messages. And external commands?
41138 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4114 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
41157 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4116 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
Bram Moolenaarcfa8f9a2022-06-03 21:59:47 +01004117- Syntax highlight for a region does not work with a "nextgroup" if the
4118 start match is empty. #8449
4119- The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be
4120 useful to support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
4121- Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
4122- Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
4123 highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
4124- patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
4125 Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
4126 Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
4127- Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window
4128 is not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
4129- Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set
4130 to 2, only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman,
4131 2010 Aug 21, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
4132- Using "syn sync breaklines=2" works for when text is changed, but not when
4133 scrolling or redrawing. Should start search for syntax patterns above the
4134 first drawn line. (#8103)
4135- Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
4136- Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb
4137 26)
4138- Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist,
4139 2007 Jul 31)
4140- Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
4141- Open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window, resulting
4142 in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
4143- When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is no
4144 search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004145
4146
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004147Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041488 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4149 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004150 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000041517 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4152 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4153 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004154- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000041557 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4156 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041578 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010041588 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4159 can be the plugin name.
4160 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4161 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaare1f3fd12022-08-15 18:51:32 +010041627 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode, like :def functions.
4163 Possibilities:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004164 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
Bram Moolenaare1f3fd12022-08-15 18:51:32 +01004165 has('bytecode-1234')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4166 supports the version. Update the code with a command, can be used in
4167 an autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004168 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
Bram Moolenaare1f3fd12022-08-15 18:51:32 +01004169 .vim file. Problem: distribution, non-writable directory, etc.
4170 3. Use a cache directory for each user. Disadvantage: cache lookup may
4171 cost more time than bytecode wins.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041727 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4173 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041746 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4175 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041768 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004177 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4178 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004179 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4180 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4181 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004182 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4183 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4184 3 2002
4185 Only add this when also implemented for
4186 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4187 be used.
4188 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004189 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4190 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4191 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4192 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4193 File.Open..." argument.
4194 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4195 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4196 with properties instead.
4197 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4198 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4199 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004200 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004201 crypt() encrypt string
4202 decrypt() decrypt string
4203 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4204 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004205 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004206 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004207 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004208 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004209 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004210 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4211 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004212 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4213 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004214 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004215 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4216 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4217 to allow the library to execute a command or
4218 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042197 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4220 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
42218 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4222 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042238 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4224 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042258 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042266 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042278 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4228 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042298 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4230 option or environment variable.
42318 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042328 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004233 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000042347 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4235 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042368 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4237 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
42388 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
42398 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4240 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4241 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4242 charwise({expr}).
42437 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4244 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4245 buffer for this?
4246 result = scratch(string, command)
4247 result = apply(string, command)
4248 result = execute(string, command)
4249 "command" would use <> notation.
4250 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
42517 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004252
4253
4254Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000042556 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4256 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4257 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4258 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4259 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4260 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4261 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004262
4263
4264Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042657 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4266 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042677 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4268 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4269 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4270 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042718 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4272 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4273 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4274 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004275 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042768 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
42779 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
42788 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
42797 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4280 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
42818 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4282 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4283 when starting up in a color terminal.
42848 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4285 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042868 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4287 function be improved?
42888 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4289 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4290 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4291 this be improved?
42928 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4293 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000042947 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4295 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042967 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4297 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
42987 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4299 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043007 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4301 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4302 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4303 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4304 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4305 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4306 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043078 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4308 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4309 using strcmp() too often?
43107 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4311 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4312 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4313 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4314 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4315 the two blocks to the memfile block.
43167 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4317 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4318 with an argument that can be messed with.
4319 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4320 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
43217 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4322- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
43238 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4324 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4325- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4326 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4327- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4328- Do profiling on:
4329 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004330 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4331 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4332 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4333 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4334 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4335 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004336 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043377 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4338 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4339 changed).
4340 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4341 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4342- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4343- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4344 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4345- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4346 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4347 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004348- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4349- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4350 cursor is right of the screen.
43518 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4352 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4353
4354
4355Code size:
43568 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4357- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4358 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
43598 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
43608 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4361 it.
43627 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4363 left out.
43648 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4365 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010043668 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004367
4368
4369Messages:
43708 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4371 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
43728 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4373 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
43748 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4375 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004376- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4377 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4378- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
43799 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4380 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4381 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4382 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4383 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043848 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4385 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
43868 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4387 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4388 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4389 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4390 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4391 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004392- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004393 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043948 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4395 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4396 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4397 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4398 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4399 error messages, printing text, etc.
44008 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4401 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4402 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4403
4404
4405Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004406- screen_line():
4407 - insert/delete character stuff.
4408 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4409- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4410 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4411- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4412 waiting for a character.
44138 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4414 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4415 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004416
4417Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020044188 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044196 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4420- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4421 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4422 windows.
44237 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4424 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4425 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4426- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4427 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4428 (Goldfarb)
4429- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4430 bound windows.
4431- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4432 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004433- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004434- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4435 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4436 of lines but not with a single line).
4437
4438
4439Autoconf:
44408 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
44418 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4442 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4443- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4444 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4445- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4446- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4447- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4448
4449
4450Perl interface:
44518 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044527 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
44537 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
44546 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4455
4456
4457Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020044588 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4459 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044606 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4461 :libload internal-name libname
4462 :libunload internal-name
4463 :liblist
4464 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4465 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4466 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
44676 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4468
4469
4470Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000044719 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4472 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4473 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4474 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4475 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044768 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4477 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4478 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004479 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004480 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000044817 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4482 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4483 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044848 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
44858 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4486 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044877 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4488 window for each tag.
44897 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
44907 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4491 bottom" search message.
44927 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4493 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4494 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004495- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4496- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004497- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4498 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4499 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045007 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4501 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4502 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4503 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
45047 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4505 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4506 :tagargs clear
4507 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4508 matching).
45097 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4510 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4511 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4512 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
45137 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4514 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
45157 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4516 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4517 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004518
4519
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004520Win32 GUI:
45218 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4522 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045238 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4524 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4525 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4526 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4527 common part of the path.
45288 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
45298 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4530 gettext and menus work.
45318 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4532 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004533 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004534 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
45358 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4536 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
45378 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4538 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
45397 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4540 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
45417 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
45427 <Esc> should close a dialog.
45437 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4544 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4545 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4546 prompts.
45477 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4548 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4549 the file added into an already running Vim.
45507 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4551 functions to find the window title.
4552
4553
4554GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045557 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
45568 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
45576 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
45588 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4559 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
45609 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
45617 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
45628 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4563 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
45648 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4565 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4566 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
45678 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4568 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
45698 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4570 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4571 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4572 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045737 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
45748 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4575 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000045767 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4577 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4578 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045798 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
45808 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004581 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045828 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
45838 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
45848 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4585 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4586 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
45877 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4588 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4589 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
45907 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4591 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
45927 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4593 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4594 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4595 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045967 Should support multi-column menus.
4597- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4598 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4599- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
46008 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
46016 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4602 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
46037 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
46047 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4605 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4606 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
46077 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
46088 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4609 name can be chosen free.
46107 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4611 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
46126 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4613 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4614 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4615 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4616 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4617 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4618 things.
46197 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4620 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046217 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004622 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004623- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4624 where it was started from?
46257 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4626
4627
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004628Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar0d878b92022-07-01 18:45:04 +010046299 Add WinNewPre - before creating a new window. #10635
46309 When triggering WinNew provide the window ID somehow. #10633
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020046319 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4632 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004633- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046348 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4635 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4636 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4637 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
46388 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4639 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000046407 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4641 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4642 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4643 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000046447 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046458 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4646 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046478 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4648 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4649 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046507 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4651 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4652 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046538 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4654 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4655 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046568 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4657 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046588 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046596 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4660 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000046617 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046627 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004663 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4664 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4665 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046665 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4667 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4668 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
46697 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4670 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4671 file.
46728 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4673 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4674 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004675- Add events to autocommands:
4676 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004677 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4678 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004679 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004680 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004681 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004682 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004683 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4684 the char.
4685 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4686 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4687 file from CVS).
4688 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4689 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4690 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4691 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4692 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4693 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004694 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4695 changes.
Bram Moolenaarb59ae592022-11-23 23:46:31 +00004696 QuickfixList - when any entry in the current list changes or another
4697 list is selected
4698 QuickfixPosition - when selecting another entry in the current quickfix
4699 list
4700
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004701- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004702 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004703 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004704 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4705 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4706 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4707 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4708 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01004709- Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
4710 autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
4711 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
4712 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
4713 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
4714 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
4715 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
4716 The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004717
4718
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004719Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004720- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4721 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004722- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4723 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4724 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4725 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4726 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004727- Ideas from others:
4728 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4729 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4730 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4731 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4732 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4733 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4734 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4735 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4736 Uses Perl for C++.
4737 Uses ctags to find the info:
4738 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4739 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4740 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4741 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4742 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4743 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004744 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004745 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4746- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4747
4748
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004749Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004750- Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
4751 (Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
4752- When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline.
4753 (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 23, #1653)
4754- Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
4755- When complete() first argument is before where insert started and
4756 'backspace' is Vi compatible, the completion fails.
4757 (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
4758- The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
4759 - The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
4760 - Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
4761- When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a
4762 number, not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist()
4763 to force a string value.
4764- When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes back to originally
4765 completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
4766 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004767- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000047687 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4769 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047707 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4771 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4772 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047738 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4774 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
47759 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4776 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4777 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047788 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4779 - ignore/match case
4780 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047818 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4782 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4783 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4784 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4785 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4786 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047878 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000047887 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4789 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047908 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4791 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4792 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4793 Should work for C++ and Java.
4794 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
47957 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
47967 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4797 instead of words.
47988 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
47998 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4800 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
48018 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4802 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004803- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4804 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004805- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4806 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4807 wildcards in the file name)?
4808- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4809- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4810- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4811 be in another file).
4812- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4813- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4814- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4815 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4816- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4817- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4818- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004819- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4820
4821
4822Command line editing:
48237 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4824 line.
48258 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4826 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4827 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4828- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4829 lines wraps to start of line).
4830- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4831 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4832 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4833 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4834 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4835 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4836 cmdwin does now already.
4837 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4838 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4839 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4840 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4841 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4842 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4843 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4844 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4845 Problems:
4846 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4847 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4848 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4849 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4850 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4851 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4852 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4853 character in first column?
4854 - Implementation ideas:
4855 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4856 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4857 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4858 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4859 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4860 Mode.
4861
4862
4863Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004864- Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary.
4865 (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1350)
4866- Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the
4867 matching command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048688 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
48698 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4870 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
48718 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4872 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048738 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4874 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048757 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4876 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004877- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4878- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4879 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048808 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4881 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
48827 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4883 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4884- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4885 identifiers (Webb).
48868 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4887 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
48887 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4889 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4890- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4891 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4892- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4893 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4894 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar47c532e2022-03-19 15:18:53 +00004895- With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
4896 entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe,
4897 2011 Feb 12)
4898- After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting
4899 E33 (no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'",
4900 the command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
4901- Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now
4902 and then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding
4903 include files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
4904 Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
4905 indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
4906 ":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|,
4907 like in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find
4908 very quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier
4909 fix. (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
4910- Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
4911 only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
4912- Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through
4913 directory tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a
4914 directory that doesn't contain other directories.
49158 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
4916 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
49178 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
49188 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
4919- Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
4920 laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1) Works
4921 OK with Vim in an xterm.
4922- If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't
4923 work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004924
4925
4926Command line history:
4927- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4928 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4929 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004930 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004931- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4932 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4933
4934
4935Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000049369 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4937 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4938 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049398 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4940 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4941 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4942 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4943 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049448 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4945 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4946 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049477 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4948 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004949- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049507 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4951 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4952- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4953 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4954 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4955 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4956 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4957 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4958- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4959 Normal mode.
4960- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4961 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4962 are used.
4963- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4964- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4965- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4966
4967
4968'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010049699 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4970 char * veryLongName =
4971 "very long string"
4972 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049738 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049748 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4975 long_type foo =
4976 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049778 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4978 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004979 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049808 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4981 func(
4982 new String[] {
4983 "asdf",
4984 "asdf"
4985 }
4986 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049878 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4988 (Chow Loong Jin)
4989 namespace {
4990 int
4991 func(int arg) {
4992 }
4993 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049946 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4995 func( arg1
4996 , arg2
4997 , arg3
4998 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000049997 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005000 func(
5001 int x) // indent like "(4"
5002 {
5003 if (a
5004 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050059 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5006 if (a)
5007 {
5008 if (b)
5009 {
5010 // {
5011 }
5012 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005013 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5014 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5015 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005016- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005017 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
50187 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5019- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5020 line).
5021- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5022- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5023 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005024- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5025 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5026- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5027 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5028- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5029- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5030 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
50318 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5032 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5033 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5034- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5035- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5036 lines start with "\item".
5037- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5038 /* here is a comment that
5039 is just autoindented, and
5040 nothing else */
5041- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
50427 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5043 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5044 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005045 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005046
5047
5048Java:
50498 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5050 Odendahl?
50518 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5052 "[i" commands and friends.
5053- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5054 (Jason)
5055- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5056 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5057
5058
5059'comments':
50608 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5061 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5062 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5063 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005064 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5065 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050667 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5067 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
50687 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
50696 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5070 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5071 regexp is used.
50728 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5073 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5074
5075
5076Virtual edit:
50778 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050787 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5079
5080
5081Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050828 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050838 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000050848 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005085 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020050868 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005087 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005088 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5089 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020050908 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050918 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5092 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050938 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5094 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5095 the end of the line or before a ".".
50967 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5097 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
50987 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5099 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051006 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
51015 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5102 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5103 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5104 cursor is on.
5105
5106
5107Select mode:
51088 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5109 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
51107 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005111 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051127 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5113 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5114 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5115 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5116 normal_cmd().
5117 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5118 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5119
5120
5121Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020051228 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5123 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005124- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5125 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5126 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005127- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5128 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5129 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051308 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005131 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005132 where needed.
51337 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5134 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
51357 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5136 of each selected line.
51378 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
51388 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5139 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5140 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
51418 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5142 Ben Godfrey)
51437 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5144 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
51457 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5146 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051477 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005148 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005149 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
51508 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5151 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
51527 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5153 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5154 option!
51557 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5156 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5157 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5158 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5159 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5160 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5161 without changing the column.
51626 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051637 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5164 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051656 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5166 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
51676 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051686 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005169 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005170 or other special character.
51716 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5172
5173
5174More advanced repeating commands:
5175- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005176- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005177- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005178 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5179 "y." will repeat last yank.
5180 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5181 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5182 and/or pick an older command.
5183- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5184
5185
5186Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051878 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5188 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5189 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
51908 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
51917 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5192 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051938 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5194 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
51958 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000051967 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051978 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5198 entering search strings.
51998 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5200 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5201 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052028 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5203 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010052047 Add <0x8f> (hex), <0o33> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052057 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5206 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052076 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5208 abbreviations are to be used.
5209- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5210 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5211 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005212- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5213 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5214 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5215 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5216 Or implicit:
5217 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005218- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5219 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5220 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005221- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5222 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5223- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5224 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
52256 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5226 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5227 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5228 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005229- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5230 non-replace Insert mode?
5231- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005232- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5233- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5234 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5235- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005236 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005237- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5238 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5239- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5240- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5241 ":freekeys".
5242- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5243
5244
5245Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005246- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5247 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5248- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5249 folds when going to another line.
5250 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5251- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5252 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005253- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5254 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5255 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005256- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5257 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5258 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5259 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020052609 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5261 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005262
5263
5264Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010052659 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000052668 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005267 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005268 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005269 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005270 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052719 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5272 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052738 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5274 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000052758 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5276 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5277 Perl does it this way:
5278 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5279 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5280 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5281 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052828 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5283 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5284 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000052857 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5286 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000052878 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5288 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000052897 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005290 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5291 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5292 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000052937 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005294 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052957 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5296 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052978 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5298 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
52998 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5300 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020053017 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005302 example.
53038 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5304 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5305- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5306 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5307 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5308 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053098 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5310 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5311 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
53127 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5313 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000053147 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5315 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053168 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5317 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053188 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5319 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053208 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5321 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5322 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5323 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005324- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5325 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005326- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5327 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5328- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5329 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5330 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5331 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053328 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5333 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005334- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5335 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053368 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5337 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5338 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005339- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5340 i ignore case
5341 I use case
5342 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5343 v use Vi regexp syntax
5344 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5345 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5346 Perl uses these too:
5347 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5348 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5349 o compile only once (Perl only)
5350 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5351 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5352 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5353 following command.
5354 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5355- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5356 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5357 for search string)?
53587 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5359 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5360- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5361 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5362- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5363 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5364- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5365- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005366 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005367 a for the next file in the argument list
5368 f for file in the buffer list
5369 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005370 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5371 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005372 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5373 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5374- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053757 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005376 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053777 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5378 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5379 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5380 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
53816 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5382 effects.
53837 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5384 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5385 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000053867 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005387 Also ":dselect".
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005388- Searching for \%'> does not find anything when using line Visual
5389 selection. Probably because it's using MAXCOL. #8238
5390- Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
5391 /\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
5392- Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett
5393 Stahlman, 2014 Jun 8)
5394- Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega,
5395 2010 Nov 22)
5396- Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin
5397 R. Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
5398- When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it
5399 may result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen,
5400 2009 Apr 16)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005401
5402
5403Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054049 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5405 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5406 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054079 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5408 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020054098 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5410 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054118 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5412 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5413 timestamp?
5414 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5415 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005416- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5417 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005418- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5419 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5420 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
54218 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5422 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5423 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5424 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
54258 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5426 only remember the lines that really changed.
54277 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5428 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5429 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5430 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005431- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5432 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5433- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5434 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5435- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5436 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5437 [-99].
5438- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5439- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005440- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5441 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005442- MS-Windows: when writing undo file the infostreams are copied in
5443 mch_copy_file_attribute(), that seems unnecessary. (#7925) Add a flag to
5444 only copy attributes?
5445- undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
5446- After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it
5447 causes corruption. (#6631)
5448- When the computer crashes while writing the undofile, the contents may be
5449 lost. Write to a temp file, fsync and rename. (#8879)
5450- Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
5451- Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426) ex_next()
5452 should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd(). Is there a test for
5453 this?
5454- Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
5455- Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
5456- Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013
5457 oct 3. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
5458 Also see #1635.
5459- When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
5460 synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01005461- The undo file name can get too long. (Issue #346)
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005462 For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
Bram Moolenaar71badf92023-04-22 22:40:14 +01005463 Check both for some time for backwards compatibility.
5464 Alternatively: create the directory structure under 'undodir'.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005465- Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
5466 possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
5467- Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian
5468 Brabandt, 2010 Nov 5)
5469- There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to
5470 what was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break
5471 inserted perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
5472- When using 'cryptmethod' xchaha20 the undo file is not encrypted.
5473 Need to handle extra bytes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005474
5475
5476Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054777 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5478 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5479 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5480 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020054818 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005482 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
54838 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5484 inode too.
54857 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005486 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5487 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054887 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5489 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5490- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5491 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5492- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5493 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
54947 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5495 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
54967 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5497 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
54988 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054997 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5500 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010055018 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5502 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5503 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005504- When using ":bwipe!" also get rid of references to be buffer, e.g. in the
5505 jumplist and alternate file.
5506- ":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but
5507 it goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
5508 unlisted. (#4478)
5509- :buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp
5510 error. (#5467)
5511- Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before
5512 and is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
5513- Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If
5514 there is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc.
5515 To be used for git temp files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005516
5517
5518Swap (.swp) files:
55198 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5520 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5521 there are short file name problems.
55228 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5523 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
55248 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
55258 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005526 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005527 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5528 file the same as the actual file?
5529 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055307 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5531 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
55327 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005533 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005534 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5535 enough room.
55367 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5537 or /var/preserve.
5538- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5539 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5540- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005541 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005542- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5543 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5544 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5545 cached list of which line is where.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005546- When editing a file with ":edit" the output of :swapname is relative,
5547 while editing it with "vim file" it is absolute. (#355) Which one should
5548 it be?
5549- When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile.
5550 Then a command can delete it.
5551- In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of
5552 the process that is running. It might actually be some other program,
5553 e.g. after a reboot.
5554- When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to
5555 wait for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
5556 Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
5557- After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
5558 correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
5559- In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about
5560 what each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005561
5562
5563Viminfo:
55647 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5565 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5566 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000055678 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5568 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5569 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055708 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5571 name. (Schild)
55728 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
55738 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055748 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055758 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5576 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5577 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5578 this?
55797 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
55807 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5581 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
55826 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5583 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5584 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5585- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5586 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005587- Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
5588- Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows
5589 about, it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017
5590 Jun 19, #1781)
5591- Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be
5592 read back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
5593- When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and
5594 reading it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
55958 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
5596 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
55978 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
5598 check for file marks. This can be slow.
55998 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
5600 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
5601 that the user knows the files have to be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005602
5603
5604Modelines:
56058 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5606 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5607 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005608- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5609 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5610 'shiftwidth'.
5611- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5612 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005613- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5614 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5615 modeline setting.
5616- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5617 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5618- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5619 .cpp files.
5620- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5621 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02005622- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005623 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5624
5625
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005626Sessions:
Bram Moolenaar069a7d52022-06-27 22:16:08 +01005627- Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
5628 'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative
5629 path. (#4450)
5630- Session file only contains local option values for buffers that are in a
5631 window, not other buffers. (#7532)
5632- Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows
5633 with modified buffers:
5634 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
5635 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
5636 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
5637 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
5638- When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted,
5639 the buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393) Should add
5640 the buffer in hidden state.
5641- When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are
5642 not filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle
5643 deleting the initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
5644- Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not
5645 the normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
5646- Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
5647 (Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
5648- Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a
5649 way that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
5650 ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1) Also: swap files are in
5651 ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
5652- Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until
5653 after loading all files.
5654- Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
5655 (7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000056568 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5657 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
56587 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5659 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056608 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5661 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056628 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5663 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5664 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000056657 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5666 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005667
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005668
5669Options:
56707 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5671 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056728 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01005673 options that are a comma-separated list. The old number values should
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005674 also be supported.
56758 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5676 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5677 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
56787 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005679
5680
5681External commands:
56828 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5683 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
56844 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5685 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5686 -f).
56874 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
56884 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5689 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
56904 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5691
5692
5693Multiple Windows:
56947 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
56958 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5696 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
56977 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5698 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5699 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057007 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5701 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057027 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5703 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057046 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5705 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005706 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005707 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57087 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5709 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5710 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5711 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5712- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5713 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5714 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5715 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5716
5717
5718Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057198 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057208 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5721 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057228 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 +000057238 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5724 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
57258 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5726 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5727 the mark was set.
57287 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5729 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5730 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5731 ":browse marks"?
57326 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057337 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5734 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
57357 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5736 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
57377 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5738 command).
57397 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5740 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5741 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5742 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
57435 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5744 mappings.
57456 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5746 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5747 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5748
5749
5750Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020057517 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005752 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005753- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5754 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000057558 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057567 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5757 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5758
5759
5760Writing files:
5761- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5762 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5763 shortname conversion.
57648 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
57658 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5766 file.
57678 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5768 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5769 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057706 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5771 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
57726 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5773 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
57746 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5775 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057768 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005777 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
57787 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5779 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010057807 When editing a file, check that it has been changed outside of Vim more
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005781 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5782 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5783 waiting for a character to be typed).
57848 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5785 line of the window, like "[time]".
5786 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5787 Automatic and/or with a command.
5788
5789
5790Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000057918 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5792 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057938 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005794 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5795- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5796- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
57978 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5798 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005799- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005800 :s///N substitutes N times.
5801- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5802 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5803 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58047 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5805 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5806 last line column 5.
58075 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5808 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5809 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5810 (Stanislav Sitar)
5811
5812
5813Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058148 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58157 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58168 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5817 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5818 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005819- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5820- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5821 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5822- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5823- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5824
5825
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005826Argument list:
58276 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5828 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5829 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
58306 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5831
5832
5833Registers:
58348 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058358 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5836 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5837 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005838- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5839 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5840- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5841 leader when line wraps?
5842- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5843 line in the range.
5844- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5845 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
58468 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5847 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005848- In Select mode the deleted text always goes into the unnamed register.
5849 Use CTRL-R to specify the register to use. (#9531)
5850- When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
5851 register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
5852 (#6435)
5853- Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi,
5854 2018 Apr 26, #2849)
5855- Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
5856 registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
5857- With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for
5858 empty register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
5859- Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked
5860 text part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
58616 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5862 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5863 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5864 Also do this for the small delete register "-.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005865
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005866
5867Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058688 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000058698 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058707 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
58717 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005872- In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping
5873 through the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
5874
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005875
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005876Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000058777 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5878 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5879 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5880 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5881 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5882 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5883 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005884 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000058857 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5886 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000058877 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5888 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058898 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5890 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000058917 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5892 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5893 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005894- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005895 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010058967 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5897 window as a buffer-tab selection.
58988 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058997 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5900 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59018 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5902 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059036 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059048 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5905 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5906 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5907 in this Vim.
59088 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005909 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059108 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5911 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5912 have it apply to the following command.
59138 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5914 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5915 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5916 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059177 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5918 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059197 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5920 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5921 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5922 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059236 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59248 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59259 Support ACLs on more systems.
59267 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5927 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059287 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5929 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5930 (truncated to fit in the space).
59317 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59328 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59338 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5934 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059357 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005936 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59377 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5938 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059397 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059407 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
59417 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059428 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
59438 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5944 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5945 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5946 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
59478 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059488 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059498 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5950 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5951 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5952 does something like this. (Shah)
59537 Use growarray for replace stack.
59547 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5955 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
59563 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059577 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5958 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010059597 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5960 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005961- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5962- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5963- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5964- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
59657 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5966 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5967- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5968 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005969- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005970- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5971 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5972- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5973 call "play newbeep.au").
5974- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5975 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5976 (Bhatt).
5977- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5978 blockwise registers).
5979- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5980 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5981- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5982 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5983 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5984 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005985- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059867 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5987 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5988- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5989 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5990 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5991 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5992 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059938 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5994 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059958 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5996 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5997 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5998 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5999 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6000- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02006001- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060027 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6003 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6004- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6005 not in column 1.
60066 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6007 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60087 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6009- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006010- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006011 :redir #> bufname
6012 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006013- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6014 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006015- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6016 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6017 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60186 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6019 console? (Klaus Hast)
6020- Add :delcr command:
6021 *:delcr*
6022 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6023 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6024 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6025 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6026 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006027 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006028- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6029- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6030 characters from 'isprint'.
6031- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6032- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6033 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6034- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6035 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6036 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6037- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6038- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6039 Nvi).
6040- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6041 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
60427 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6043- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6044 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
60456 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6046- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6047 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6048 macro).
6049- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006050- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6051 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6052- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
60538 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006054- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6055- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6056- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6057 if it is not the first or last window.
6058- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6059 there is one) instead of the file itself.
60607 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6061 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6062 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6063- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6064- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006065 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006066 many percent down the windows).
6067- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6068 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
Bram Moolenaar938ae282023-02-20 20:44:55 +00006069 line? #754 Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006070 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006071- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6072 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6073- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6074 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6075- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6076- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6077- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6078 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060798 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6080 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6081 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6082 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6083 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006084- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6085 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6086- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006087 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6088- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006089 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6090 (Webb).
6091- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006092 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006093- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6094 hex codes like 0xff).
6095- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6096 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6097 the last TYPED command.
6098- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6099- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6100- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6101 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006102- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061038 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6104 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6105 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006106- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006107 trailing '.'.
6108- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6109 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6110 find_file_in_path().
6111- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6112 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6113- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6114- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6115 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6116- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006117 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006118- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6119 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6120 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006121- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6122- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6123- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6124 to the minimal size.
6125- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6126- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6127- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6128- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6129- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006130- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6131 entered)?
6132- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6133 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006134- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006135- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6136- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6137- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6138- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6139- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6140 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006141- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061428 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6143 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6144 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6145 or in octal.
61467 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6147 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006148- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006149 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6150- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6151- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6152 insert line command).
6153- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6154- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6155- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6156- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6157- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6158 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006159- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006160 yet.
6161- Implement 'redraw' option.
6162- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6163 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061647 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6165 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006166 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6167 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061688 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6169 do it.
6170- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6171- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6172 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6173- Add text justification option.
6174- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6175- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6176 off".
6177- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6178- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6179- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006180 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006181- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006182- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006183- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6184 commands.
6185- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6186- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6187- :table command (Webb)
6188- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006189- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6190- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6191- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6192- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6193- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6194 (Demirel).
6195- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6196- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6197 for use in macro's and the like.
6198- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006199 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006200- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006201 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006202- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006203 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006204 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6205- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6206 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006207- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006208 mkopttab to make option table?
6209- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6210 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6211- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6212 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006213- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006214 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6215- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6216 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006217- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062188 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6219 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6220 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6221 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6222 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062238 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6224 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6225 (Netherton)
62266 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6227 space after "(", for example.
62285 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6229 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6230 (Servatius Brandt)
6231
6232
6233From Elvis:
6234- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6235- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006236- Search patterns:
6237 \@ match word under cursor.
6238 but do:
6239 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6240 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
62418 ":window" command:
6242 :win + next window (up)
6243 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6244 :win - previous window (down)
6245 :win -- idem, wrapping
6246 :win nr to window number "nr"
6247 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
62487 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6249 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6250
6251
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006252From xvi:
6253- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6254- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6255
6256
6257From vile:
6258- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6259- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6260 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6261
6262
6263Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006264- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6265 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006266 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006267 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6268 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006269- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6270 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6271- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6272 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6273 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6274 current layout mirrored.
6275- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6276- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6277 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6278- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6279- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6280 font in each top-level window.
6281- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6282- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6283- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6284- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6285 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006286- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6287 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6288- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6289 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
62904 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6291 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6292 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6293 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006294 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006295 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6296 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6297- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6298 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6299 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6300
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006301vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006302vim: set fo+=n :