blob: c2ceda92d206da06f76cdb08282379d776f8e888 [file] [log] [blame]
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2019 Dec 03
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
3
4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
5
6
7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
8
9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
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 Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020041Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +020042- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020043- Implement flip option
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020044- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020045 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
46- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +010047 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +010048- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020049
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +020050Text properties:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010051- Implement prop_find() issue #4970
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +020052- Text properties spanning more than one line
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +010053- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +020054
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010055'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020056- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
57 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +010058- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
59 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020060- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +020061- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020062- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
63 isn't one?
64 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
65
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020066Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010067- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020068- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010069- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +020070
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020071Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020072- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +010073- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
74 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +020075- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +010076- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020077- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
78 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
79 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +010080- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010081- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
82 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +010083 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +010084 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020085
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +020086Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +010087- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
88 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
89 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +010090- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
91 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020092- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
93 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +020094- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020095- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020096- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
97 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +020098- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
99 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
100- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
101 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200102- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
103 is disabled.
104- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
105- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
106 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200107- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
108 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
109 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
110- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
111- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
112 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
113- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
114 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200115
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200116Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100117E290, E292, E362, E366, E450, E451, E452,
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200118E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
119E654, E856, E857, E860, E861, E863, E889, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200120
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200121Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
122manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
123Athena is OK.
124Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
125
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200126Patch to properly break CJK lines: Anton Kochkov, #3875
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200127Flag in 'formatoptions' is not used in the tests.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200128
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200129undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
130
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200131Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
132
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200133Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200134
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100135Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
136May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200137Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
138remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200139Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200140
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200141Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
142Happens when typing CTRL-N while still search for results. E.g., type "b_" in
143terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
144Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
145(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200146
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100147Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
148(#4087)
149
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100150Instead of using a syntax error, use #error to fail early when something is
151wrong. E.g. in vim.h "Error:", and blowfish.c "error!". (#5299)
152
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200153":helptags ALL" should skip directories where "tags" cannot be written.
154(Matěj Cepl, #5026)
155
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200156":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
157goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
158unlisted. (#4478)
159
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200160Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
161
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200162Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
163Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
164
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200165The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
166support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
167
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200168Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
169It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
170Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
171Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
172
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100173Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
174
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200175Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
176(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
177
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200178When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
179default one. #4698
180
181When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
182with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
183
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200184Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200185Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200186
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200187Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
188fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
189
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200190Patch to add per-tabpage and per-window previous directory: "lcd -" and "tcd
191-". (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4362)
192
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200193Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
194- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
195- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200196
197Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
19813, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200199
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200200Patch to configure BUILD_DATE for reproducible builds. (James McCoy, #513)
201
202Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
203
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100204Patch to support "0o" for octal numbers. (Ken Takata, #5304)
205
206":cexpr" sees a | in the expression as the start of the next command. Should
207remove the "BAR" flag from the command and let the command search for the next
208command after parsing the expression.
209
210When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
211when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
212gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
213input buffer. (#5302)
214
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200215xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
216buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
217Xterm 224 supports it!
218Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
219Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
220Also see issue #609.
221We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
222
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200223Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200224
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100225Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
2262007 Feb 18)
227Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
228
229Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
230Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
231
232Patch for Template string: #4491. New pull: #4634
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100233Implementation is too inefficient, avoid using lambda.
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100234
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200235Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
236
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200237Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
238Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200239
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100240Errors found with random data:
241 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100242
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200243Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
244change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
245patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
246(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
247
248Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
249Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
250
251Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
252
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200253Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
254files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
255Include part of #3242?
256
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200257When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
258it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
259
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200260Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
261Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
262Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
263
264Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
265(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
266Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
267- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
268 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
269 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
270- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
271 covered by the above change.
272So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
273same thing. Remarks on PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
274Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200275
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200276Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
277t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
278
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100279v:register isn't reset early enough, may be used by next command.
280(Andy Massimino, #5294, possible fix in #5305)
281
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100282Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
283Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
284
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200285'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
286
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200287"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
288(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
289
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200290Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
291
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100292Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
293
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200294Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
295
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100296When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
297in a long line. #5189
298
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200299The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
300Give a few examples. (#4288)
301
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200302Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
303work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
304
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200305Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only adds the option, no implem.):
3067 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
307 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
308 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
309
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100310Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
311read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
312be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
313
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100314Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
315CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
316with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
317fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
318displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
319
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200320Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
321(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
322
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200323Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
324
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200325Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
326
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200327Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
328https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
329
330Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
331http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
332http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
333Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
334- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
335- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
336- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
337 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
338- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
339- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
340Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
341- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
342- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
343Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
344- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
345
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100346Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
347Mar 5)
348
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200349Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
350- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
351 line.
352- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
353 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
354- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
355 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
356
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200357Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
358on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
359
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200360Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
361in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
362buffer didn't change at all.
363
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200364Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
365register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
366(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
367
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200368Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
369(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
370
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200371Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
372":let buf = bufcreate('name')
373
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200374Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
375'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
376(#4450)
377
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100378When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
379But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
380similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
381
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200382C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
383(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
384
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +0100385Support setting the character displayed below the last line? Neovim uses
386"eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
387
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100388Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
389added?
390
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200391Patch to add a flatten() function. #3676. Check that the doc explains the
392maxdepth argument (applies to the input "recursiveness").
393
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200394Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
395negative. (see #4326)
396
397'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
398`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
399tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
400:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
401
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200402This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
403 vim: syn=nosyntax
404
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200405":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
406a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
407
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100408Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
409#2948. (related to #1512?)
410On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
411balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
41220, #2481)
413Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
414Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
415balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
4162018 Sep 14)
417Another request: #3811.
418
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200419More warnings from static analysis:
420https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200421
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100422Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
423
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200424Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
425
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200426Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
427internals of the dict structure.
428
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100429nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
430
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200431Missing tests for:
432- add_termcap_entry()
433
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200434Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
435change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
436them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
437
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100438Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
439Also run all tests with C locale?
440
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100441"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
442#3927
443
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200444Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200445Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200446
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100447When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
448case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
449For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
450
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200451Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
452(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
453expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200454
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200455Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
456 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
457 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
458
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100459Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100460punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100461
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200462ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
463
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200464Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
465":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
466#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
467Updated 2019 May 25.
468
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200469Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
470drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
471
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200472Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
473is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
474
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100475When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
476scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
477using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
478
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200479Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
480#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
481(Sep 8)
482
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200483Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
484unified diff (list of lines).
485
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100486When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
487kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
488when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
489
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100490Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
491(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100492
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100493Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
494
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200495Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200496Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200497memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200498Memory leak in test_terminal:
499==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
500==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
501==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
502==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
503==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
504==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
505==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
506==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
507==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200508TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100509Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200510Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
511Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200512
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200513gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200514
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200515matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
51619.
517
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100518Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
519Probably window.
520Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
521highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200522And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
523'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100524
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100525Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
526Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
527
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200528Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
529Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
530Not ready to include.
531
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200532Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
533Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
534Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
535
536Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
537
538Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
539screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
540
541Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
542 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
543 Not ready to include.
544
545Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
546Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
547
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200548home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
549
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200550When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
551terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
552How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
553
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200554Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
555
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100556Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
557Feedback from someone who uses this?
558
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200559ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
560
561Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
562Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
563values.
564
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100565Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200566- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
567- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
568- omit diff.exe from distribution
569- Can we make this show differences within a line?
570- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200571
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200572Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
573
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100574Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
575What is the practical use for this?
576
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200577When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
578includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
579
580Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200581Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200582
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200583MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
584(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
585
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100586Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
587
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200588Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
589
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200590Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
591window for the buffer.
592
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200593Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
594when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
595
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100596Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
597mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
598
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200599Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
600
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200601Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
602modified buffers
603 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
604 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
605 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
606 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
607
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100608Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
609- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
610- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
611- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100612- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
613
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200614Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
615characters. (#3246)
616
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200617'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
618
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100619Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
620Oct 28)
621
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200622ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
623Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
624Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
625Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
626
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100627Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
628- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
629
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200630Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
631- Test_setbufvar_options()
632- Test_exit_callback_interval()
633
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200634Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
635Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100636Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
637Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200638
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200639Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
640
641Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
64224)
643
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100644Try out background make plugin:
645 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
646or asyncmake:
647 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
648
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100649Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100650mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100651
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200652Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
653is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
654used for git temp files.
655
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100656Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
657
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200658Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
659behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
660(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
661
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200662Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
663pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
664
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200665Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
666script or function.
667
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200668When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
669E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
670does nothing otherwise?
671
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200672MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
673If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
674(wait a little while).
675CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100676
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200677Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
678MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
6792017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
680receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
681
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200682Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
683missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
684
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200685":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
686deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
687
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200688Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200689
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100690Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200691Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
692
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200693With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
694included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
695(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
696
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200697Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200698Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200699
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100700Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100701Jan 15, #2555)
702
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200703":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
704
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100705Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
706
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100707No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
708No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
709
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200710Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
711http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
712Should be supported with a flag.
713
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100714Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
715confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
716
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100717Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
718
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100719Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
720Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
721applying the diff, etc.
722
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200723Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
724Apr 26, #2849)
725
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100726User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
727word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100728
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100729Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200730
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200731With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
732(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
733
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200734Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
735:drop (remote commands).
736
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200737Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
7382018 Jun 18, #3027)
739
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200740Implement option_save() and option_restore():
741option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
742 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
743 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
744 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
745 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
746 be called when the same window is the current window.
747 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
748 the local options won't be restored.
749
750option_save({list}) *option_save()*
751 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
752 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
753 let s:saved_options = option_save([
754 \ 'ignorecase',
755 \ 'iskeyword',
756 \ ])
757 au <buffer> BufLeave *
758 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
759< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
760 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
761 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
762 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100763 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
764 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
765 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100766 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200767
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100768"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
769directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
770Also see #1689.
771
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100772crash when removing an element while inside map(). (Nikolai Pavlov, 2018 Feb
77317, #2652)
774
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100775When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100776highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100777
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200778":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
779
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100780No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
7812017 Dec 26, #2501)
782
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200783A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
784
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200785Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
786
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200787A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
788Mention where they were defined somewhere.
789
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100790Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
791(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
792
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200793ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
794
795Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
796
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100797Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
798Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
799
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100800Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
801in #846)
802Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
803
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200804Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
805Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
806
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100807When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
808redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200809
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100810In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
811(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
812
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100813Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
814neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100815
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100816Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
817Nov 21)
818
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200819When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
820triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
821set_color_count().
822
823Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
824responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
825
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100826When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
827CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
828Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
829always nested.
830
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200831matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
832
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100833Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
834
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100835MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100836for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
837
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200838Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100839(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200840
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200841Test runtime files.
842Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200843
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200844Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200845
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200846Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
847defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
848Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
849
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200850After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
85113, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200852
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200853When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
854line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
855
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100856The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
857
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200858Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
859set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
860
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100861Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
862
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200863Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
864behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
865
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100866'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
867
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200868The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
869
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100870When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
871a command can delete it.
872
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200873Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
874#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
875
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100876The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
877for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
878
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200879X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
880pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
881clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
882Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
883Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
884clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200885Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200886
887Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
888
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200889Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
890attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
891that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
892
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200893Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
894(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
895
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100896Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
897buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
898Also fixes #2166?
899
900Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
901
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200902Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
903stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
904
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100905Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
906possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
907
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200908When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
909case of :bwipe followed by :new.
910
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200911Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
912existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
913Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
914
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200915Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200916
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200917MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
918Jul 4)
919
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200920Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
921Drucker, 2017 May 8).
922This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
923Christian cannot reproduce it.
924
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200925Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
926wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
927Or is this not an actual problem?
928
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200929Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
930
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200931Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
932
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200933Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
934
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200935'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
936#1736)
937
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200938Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
9398, #1690)
940
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200941Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
942(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
943
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200944Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
945it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
946
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200947Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
948Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
949How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
950
951Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
952(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
953
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +0100954Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
955
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200956assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
957it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
958
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100959Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
960for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200961
962Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
963(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
964Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
965later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
966Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
967mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200968Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
969mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200970maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200971
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100972Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +0200973plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
974be defined when the plugin is loaded.
975
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +0100976Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
977 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
978 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +0100979
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +0200980json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +0200981What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +0100982
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +0200983Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
984
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200985import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
986(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
987
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +0100988When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
989buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
990Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100991
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +0200992Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
993Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100994Another example in #1309
995
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100996When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
997when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
998
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +0100999Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1000#1330)
1001
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001002Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1003
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001004Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1005
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001006GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1007g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1008timer expires.
1009
1010Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1011
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001012Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1013highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1014
10158 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1016 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1017
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001018Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1019Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1020
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001021Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1022key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1023 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1024 echo keytrans(xx)
1025 <C-Home>
1026
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001027Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1028(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1029Make a function to check for function-like type?
1030
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001031Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1032(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1033
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001034Implement optional arguments for functions.
1035 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
1036 call Foo(12)
1037 call Foo(12, all = 0)
1038 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001039
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001040Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1041somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1042
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001043Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1044(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1045
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001046Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001047Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001048Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001049
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001050The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1051"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1052Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1053
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001054Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1055
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001056Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1057about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001058Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1059
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001060Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1061#1053) With patch, does it work?
1062
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001063":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001064vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1065
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001066Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001067E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001068Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001069
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001070Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1071Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1072
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001073Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001074Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001075
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001076"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1077(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1078
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001079Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1080(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001081Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001082
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001083'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1084
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001085Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1086
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001087When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1088Apr 23, #1653)
1089
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001090Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1091anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1092
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001093Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001094E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001095
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001096Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1097(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1098
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001099Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1100
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001101On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1102separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1103
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001104min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1105contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1106
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001107Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1108
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001109Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1110
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001111Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1112
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001113Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1114no longer support.
1115
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001116sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
11174#1038)
1118
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001119+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001120- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001121- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1122 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1123 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001124- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1125 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001126- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1127- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1128 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1129- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1130 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1131- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001132- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1133 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001134- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1135- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1136 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1137 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1138- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1139- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1140- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1141 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1142 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1143- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1144 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1145- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1146 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1147 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1148
1149Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001150- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1151 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1152 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1153 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001154- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1155 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001156- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1157 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1158- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1159 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1160- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1161 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1162 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1163 LC_CTYPE
1164- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1165 matches everywhere.
1166- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1167 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1168- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1169- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1170 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1171- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1172- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1173 2013 Dec 11)
1174- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1175 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1176- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1177- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1178 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1179- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1180- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1181- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1182- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1183 2015 Feb 7)
1184- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1185 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1186 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1187 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1188 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1189- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1190- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1191- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1192- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1193 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1194 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1195 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1196- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1197 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1198- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1199 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1200 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1201 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1202
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001203Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1204#1350)
1205
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001206Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
12073. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1208Also see #1635.
1209
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001210Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001211Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1212use the current behavior.
1213Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001214
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001215When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1216command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1217
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001218Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1219doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1220Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001221Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001222E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1223
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001224execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001225#1141)
1226
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001227cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1228
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001229:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1230
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001231Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1232
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001233When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1234synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1235
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001236Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1237Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001238
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001239Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1240(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1241
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001242ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1243Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001244
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001245Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1246
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001247Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001248(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001249
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001250Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1251Jul 25, #948)
1252
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001253Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1254names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1255Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1256the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1257
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001258Using ":tab drop file" does not trigger BufEnter or TabEnter events.
1259(Andy Stewart, 2017 Apr 27, #1660)
1260Autocommands blocked in do_arg_all(). Supposed to happen later?
1261
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001262'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1263
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001264MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1265Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001266
1267Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1268Also for ":@.".
1269
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001270Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1271
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001272Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1273#1125
1274
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001275Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1276times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1277
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001278Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1279
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001280Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1281
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001282Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1283
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001284Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1285
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001286We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1287the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1288
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001289Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1290
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001291When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1292emoji_width table has only one entry.
1293
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001294It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1295Reject the value? #710.
1296
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001297When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1298Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1299
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001300Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001301
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001302Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1303No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001304
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001305Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1306(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001307
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001308Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1309
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001310Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1311https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1312Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1313
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001314Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1315but the reference remains valid.
1316
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001317Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001318interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1319Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1320interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1321result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001322
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001323Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001324work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001325
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001326Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1327
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001328Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1329
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001330Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1331Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1332
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001333When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1334Apr 17) #762
1335
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001336exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1337Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1338
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001339Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1340'iskeyword' for syntax.
1341
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001342Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1343(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1344
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001345Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1346
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001347When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1348maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001349Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001350
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001351Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1352It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1353Add configure check?
1354Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1355Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1356Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1357
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001358Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1359Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1360
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001361Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1362Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1363
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001364":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1365directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1366
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001367In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1368(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1369
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001370If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
13712016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001372
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001373Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1374(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1375
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001376Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1377
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001378When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1379restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1380Do not trigger the event?
1381
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001382Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1383changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1384and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001385Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1386Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
13876, 2nd message)
1388Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001389
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001390Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1391Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1392https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1393
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001394Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1395With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1396
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001397Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001398
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001399Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1400
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001401Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001402Only remembers one error.
1403
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001404GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001405
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001406Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1407(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001408
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001409Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1410github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001411 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001412Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001413
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001414Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001415
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001416Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001417comparing individual items.
1418Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1419Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1420Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1421equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1422
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001423Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1424
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001425MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1426wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1427
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001428Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1429specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1430
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001431Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1432(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1433
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001434Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001435inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001436
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001437Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1438(Luchr, #277)
1439
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001440Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001441'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1442before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001443
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001444C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1445and also line continuation after #include.
1446I can't recommend it though.
1447
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001448Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1449(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1450
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001451To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1452library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1453
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001454When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1455is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1456
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001457Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
145830)
1459
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001460MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1461(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1462
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001463The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
146424): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001465
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001466":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1467effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1468
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001469":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
14709)
1471
1472The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1473wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1474
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001475Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001476Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001477
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001478When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1479the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1480
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001481Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001482slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1483inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1484
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001485ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
14862014 Sep 11)
1487
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001488Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1489(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1490
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001491When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1492'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1493
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001494Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1495Work in progress.
1496
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001497Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1498when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1499
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001500Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1501Is this right?
1502
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001503Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1504(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1505Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1506
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001507Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1508Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001509
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001510Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1511Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1512
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001513Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1514
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001515When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1516filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1517initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1518
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001519Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1520
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001521Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1522OK to not block marks?
1523
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001524Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1525
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001526Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1527
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001528When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1529(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1530
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001531Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001532
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001533Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1534(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1535
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001536When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1537any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1538
1539Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001540
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001541Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001542
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001543Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1544(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1545
1546Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1547
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001548Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1549Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1550was already defined.
1551(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1552
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001553Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1554
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001555Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001556Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001557Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001558Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001559
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001560Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1561(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1562
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001563Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1564(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1565
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001566Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1567
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001568When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1569these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1570window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1571
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001572Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1573should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1574history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1575Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1576
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001577"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1578Jun 8)
1579
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001580Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1581insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1582
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001583No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1584
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001585Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1586(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1587Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1588arguments.
1589
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001590Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1591
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001592Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001593
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001594Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
15950x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1596New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1597compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1598
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001599Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1600a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1601
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001602Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1603right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001604its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001605
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001606Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1607
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001608This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1609 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1610This neither: (ZyX)
1611 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1612
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001613'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1614Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1615from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001616
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001617Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
16182014 Jun 8)
1619
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001620Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001621Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001622Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1623Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1624User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001625- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1626 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1627 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001628- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1629- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1630 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1631 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1632 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1633 on vim.org.
1634- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1635 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1636- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1637- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1638- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1639- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1640Implementation:
1641- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1642 plugin separate.
1643- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1644 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1645 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1646- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1647 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1648- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1649 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1650 installing.
1651Out of scope:
1652- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1653- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1654 useful).
1655
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001656Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1657normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001658
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001659When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1660menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1661
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001662Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1663(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1664
1665":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1666various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001667
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001668Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001669(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1670
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001671VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1672instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1673
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001674Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001675Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001676
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001677Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001678command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001679
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001680Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1681
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001682Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1683highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001684
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001685The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1686For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1687
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001688Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001689possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001690
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001691Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001692
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001693Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1694
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010016957 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1696 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1697 "lucida_console:h8").
1698Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1699
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001700:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1701
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001702Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1703
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001704Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1705
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001706When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1707(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1708
1709Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001710Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001711
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001712GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1713(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1714
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001715Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1716registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1717
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001718Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1719
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001720The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1721(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1722Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1723
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001724The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1725- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1726- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1727
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001728Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1729Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1730reliably?
1731
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001732Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1733(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1734
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001735Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1736(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1737
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001738Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
17392013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001740
1741Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1742
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001743Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
17445)
1745
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001746Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1747carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1748
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001749Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1750highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1751
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001752Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001753
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001754Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200175528) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001756
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001757Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1758
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001759Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1760
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001761- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1762 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1763Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001764
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001765Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001766
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001767In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1768process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1769a reboot.
1770
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001771patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1772
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001773Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1774not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001775
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001776Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1777Or use expand('<sid>')?
1778
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001779Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1780
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001781Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1782
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001783b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
17847)
1785
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001786Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1787compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1788
1789Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1790Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1791vim.bindeval().
1792
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001793Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
17942012 Aug 4)
1795
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001796Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1797(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1798
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001799Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1800But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1801
1802Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1803Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1804Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001805
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001806Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1807loading all files.
1808
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001809MS-Windows resizing problems:
1810- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1811 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1812- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1813 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1814 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001815
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001816'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001817
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001818Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001819of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1820
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001821The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1822Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1823But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001824
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001825When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1826is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1827
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001828URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001829- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001830- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1831 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1832
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001833Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1834(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1835Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
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 Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001840When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1841for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1842Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001843
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001844Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1845
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001846Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1847
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001848Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1849Apr 18)
1850
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001851Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1852And one for gui_x11.txt.
1853
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001854":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1855finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1856Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1857
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001858Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1859
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001860Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1861
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001862Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1863they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1864
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001865Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1866
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001867Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1868Nov 20)
1869
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001870Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001871Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001872
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001873`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001874(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1875
1876Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1877
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001878BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1879Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1880
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001881Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1882Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1883
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001884Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1885
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001886On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
18872012 Jun 19)
1888
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001889'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1890'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1891Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001892Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001893
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001894With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1895(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1896need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1897
1898Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1899only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
190021, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1901
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001902Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1903New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1904
1905Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1906Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1907
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001908Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1909Jan 19)
1910
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001911Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1912discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1913meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001914
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001915"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001916Oct 26)
1917
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001918Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1919
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001920With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1921register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001922
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001923Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1924
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001925When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1926(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1927
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001928When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1929then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1930from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1931
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001932Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1933":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
193415)
1935
1936Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1937
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001938BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1939cleared. See test64.
1940
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001941Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001942effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001943Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001944https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001945
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001946On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
194764 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1948right type.
1949
1950string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1951(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1952
1953When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1954(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001955When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1956following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1957(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001958
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001959When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1960doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1961
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001962Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1963
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001964maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
1965mapping, how to restore the script ID?
1966
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001967Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1968(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1969
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001970When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1971indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1972the help file.
1973
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001974After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1975Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1976
1977Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1978
1979"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
1980
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001981Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1982
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001983Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001984
1985Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
19862010 Dec 18)
1987
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001988With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1989number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1990Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1991
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001992Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1993Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1994
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020019958 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1996Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1997
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001998Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1999one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2000the match scrolls into view.
2001
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020027 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2003Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2004Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2005
20069 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2007 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2008Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2009
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002010Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2011Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2012
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002013In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2014or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2015sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2016
2017GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2018doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2019
2020GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2021
2022Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2023Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2024
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002025Wish for NetBeans commands:
2026 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2027
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002028Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2029
20307.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2031there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2032do?
2033
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002034Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
203522)
2036
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002037New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2038- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002039- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002040 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2041
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002042"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
20432011 Feb 27)
2044
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002045Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2046^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2047
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002048When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2049exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
20509) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2051
2052g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2053the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2054
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002055Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2056crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2057
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002058Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2059number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2060
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002061Regexp engine performance:
2062- Profiling:
2063 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2064 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2065 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2066 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2067 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2068 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2069- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2070- Performance tests:
2071 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2072 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2073 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2074 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2075 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2076 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2077 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2078 'hlsearch'.
2079 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2080 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2081 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2082 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2083
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002084Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2085Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2086
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002087'beval' option should be global-local.
2088
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002089Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002090
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002091setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002092
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002093With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
20942010 Oct 24)
2095
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002096Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2097
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002098When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2099Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2100
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002101":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2102
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002103'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2104
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002105C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2106checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2107Issue 46.
2108
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002109Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2110
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002111Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2112gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2113
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002114":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2115accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2116
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002117Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2118setwinvar().
2119
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002120Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002121
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002122When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2123instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2124
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002125Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2126Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2127Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002128
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002129Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2130back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2131
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002132Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002133Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2134
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002135CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2136the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2137FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2138
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002139Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2140Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2141
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002142Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2143Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2144
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002145Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2146
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002147Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2148non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002149
2150iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2151Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2152or replace with a character and continue?
2153
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002154Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2155Requires configure check for localtime().
2156Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2157
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002158Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2159Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2160
2161Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2162
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002163Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2164Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2165path.
2166
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002167Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002168Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002169
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002170'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2171
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002172":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2173like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2174
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002175Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2176https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002177
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002178Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
21792010 Nov 5)
2180
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002181Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002182Jan 7)
2183
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002184Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2185
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002186With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2187entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2188Feb 12)
2189
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002190Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2191characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2192
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002193Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2194
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002195Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2196 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2197
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002198Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2199
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002200When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2201Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2202
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002203When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2204not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2205string value.
2206
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002207For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002208line argument -noregister.
2209
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002210When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2211missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2212
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002213When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2214doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002215
2216Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2217(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2218Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2219There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2220Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2221
2222":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2223highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2224to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2225
2226Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2227Probably needs a bit of work.
2228
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002229List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002230Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2231
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002232Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2233
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002234Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2235
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002236Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2237Sep 1)
2238
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002239Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2240
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002241Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2242on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2243
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002244Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
22452009 Jul 18)
2246
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002247Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2248window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2249Needs more work.
2250
2251Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2252
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002253When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2254few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2255
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002256'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002257(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2258
2259Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2260J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2261
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002262When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2263for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2264
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002265Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2266
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002267":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2268because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2269ex_docmd.c.
2270
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002271Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002272Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2273
2274string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2275for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2276
2277Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2278
2279'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
228020)
2281
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002282Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
22832009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2284
2285Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2286
2287Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2288SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2289
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002290When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2291indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2292(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2293
2294Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2295are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2296Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2297Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2298that doesn't have a window.
2299
2300When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2301doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2302
2303getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2304displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2305
2306":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2307
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002308There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2309was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2310perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2311
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002312Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2313
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002314Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2315command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2316
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002317Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2318does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2319
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002320opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2321height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002322very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002323
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002324Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2325(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2326
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002327Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002328(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2329
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002330Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2331char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2332
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002333Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2334Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2335
2336This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2337
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002338Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2339messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2340es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
23412009 Jan 26)
2342
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002343When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002344in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2345Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2346
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002347Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2348a modeline.
2349
2350Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2351Sergey Khorev)
2352
2353Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2354part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002355
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002356After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2357correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2358
2359Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2360(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2361
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002362shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002363'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2364Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2365unix-like shell?
2366
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002367Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2368register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2369(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2370
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002371Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2372Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2373
2374Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2375make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2376
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002377When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2378still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2379
2380"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2381(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2382
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002383Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2384that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2385ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2386Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2387
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002388MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2389doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2390probably causes this.
2391
2392'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020023932009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002394
2395Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2396 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2397 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2398(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2399
2400Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2401":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2402option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2403is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002404
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002405":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2406first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002407Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002408
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002409Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2410laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2411Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002412
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002413Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2414anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2415
2416On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2417doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2418Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2419Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2420
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002421When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2422'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2423fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2424the buffer to be unmodified.
2425Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2426another look at it.
2427
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002428c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2429(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2430
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002431You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2432error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2433Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2434at the other match for 0xBF.
2435
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002436When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2437argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2438
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002439Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2440backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2441
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002442When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2443line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2444
2445Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2446position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2447
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002448After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2449(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002450command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002451
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002452":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2453Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2454
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002455When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2456either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2457put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2458
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002459Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2460Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2461Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2462Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2463(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2464
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002465Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2466
2467ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002468
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002469Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2470(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2471escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2472an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002473This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2474July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002475Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2476work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2477
2478When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
247931)
2480
2481Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2482work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2483Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002484
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002485Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2486multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2487(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2488
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002489Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
24902008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002491Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002492
2493Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2494Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2495'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2496
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002497Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2498Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2499
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002500Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2501Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2502
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020025038 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2504 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2505 several).
2506 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2507 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2508 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2509Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2510
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002511The utf class table is missing some entries:
2512 0x2212, minus sign
2513 0x2217, star
2514 0x2500, bar
2515 0x26ab, circle
2516
2517Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2518line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2519
2520GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2521Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2522
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002523Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2524try the Cocoa version.
2525
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002526Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2527changed or the window is resized.
2528
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002529GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2530the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2531
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002532Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2533Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002534
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002535Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
25361) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2537
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002538C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2539with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2540Try to reproduce at work.
2541
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002542Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2543Is there a way to list all the files first?
2544
2545When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2546result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
254716)
2548
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002549Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2550(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2551
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002552Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2553Await response to question to make the register writable.
2554
2555Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
25561)
2557
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002558In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2559each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2560
2561try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2562
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002563try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2564
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002565":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2566Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2567
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002568Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2569
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002570Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2571Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2572
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002573Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2574Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2575Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002576
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002577When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2578and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2579
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002580Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2581 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2582
2583New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2584
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002585":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2586a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2587
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002588'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2589Likonen, March 19)
2590
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002591Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2592other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2593
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002594The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2595appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2596matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2597
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002598When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2599character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2600'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2601(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2602
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002603Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2604Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002605
2606More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2607
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002608Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2609http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2610
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002611Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2612back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2613Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002614
2615Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2616No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2617
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002618Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2619terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002620
2621Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2622
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002623Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2624but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2625that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002626
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002627Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2628Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2629
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002630Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2631popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2632size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2633This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2634
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002635When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2636it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2637
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002638Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2639then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2640files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002641Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2642indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2643":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002644in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2645quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002646Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002647
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002648When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2649parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2650neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2651particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2652Jun 3)
2653However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2654the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002655
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002656A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2657Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2658
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002659Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2660Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2661
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002662Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2663switch list is noticed:
2664 switch (i)
2665 {
2666 case 1:
2667 foobar:
2668 }
2669
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002670Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2671
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002672Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2673with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2674go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2675moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2676
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002677Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002678GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002679Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2680argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2681(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2682
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002683Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2684(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2685
2686Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2687makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2688.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002689 # uninstall key: vim8.1*
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002690
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002691Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
26922007 Feb 8)
2693
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002694Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2695set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002696
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002697Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2698
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002699Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2700Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2701New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2702patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2703
2704Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2705Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2706
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002707Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002708label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2709
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002710Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2711with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2712Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002713
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002714Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2715
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002716Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2717Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2718only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2719
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002720Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2721Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002722Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002723properly?
2724
2725Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
27262007 Jun 21)
2727
2728When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2729Jun 18)
2730
2731If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2732
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002733Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2734windows. (Adam George)
2735
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002736In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2737the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2738
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002739C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2740
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002741":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2742
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002743When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002744error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002745
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002746GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002747use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2748
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002749Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2750if_ruby.c.
2751
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002752":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2753
2754The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2755it in keep_msg?
2756
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002757Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002758error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002759name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2760
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002761Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2762longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002763
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002764Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2765Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2766Also for ":w" without a file name.
2767The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002768
2769"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2770Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2771
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002772VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2773directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2774(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2775
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002776VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002778input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2779name?
2780
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002781Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2782
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002783When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2784(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
2785Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
2786will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2787
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002788gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2789This also fails with --remote.
2790
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002791When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
27922008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2793all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2794
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002795aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2796
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002797When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2798(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2799
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002800Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2801the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2802
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002803GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2804
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002805Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2806superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2807
2808Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2809character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2810
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002811Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2812Jun 5)
2813
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002814Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
28152008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2816Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2817
2818In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2819but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2820Jul 22)
2821
2822There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2823
2824Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2825":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2826somehow? Or use a new function.
2827
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002828Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2829
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002830Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2831moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2832that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2833
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002834The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2835
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002836When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002837cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2838the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2839
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002840These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2841 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2842 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2843 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2844
2845Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2846partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2847
2848In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2849buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2850reload it then?
2851
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002852For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2853
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002854Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2855only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2856
2857Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2858tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2859doesn't contain other directories.
2860
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002861Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2862Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2863
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002864Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2865 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2866 set background=dark
2867This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2868color is, not reset it.
2869
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002870Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2871start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2872show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2873middle?
2874
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002875Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2876
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002877When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2878current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2879the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2880
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002881When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2882Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2883
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002884Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2885Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2886
2887Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2888
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002889A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2890Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2891
2892Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2893Dara, 2006 June 21)
2894
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002895Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2896number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2897
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002898After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2899the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2900
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002901Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002902
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002903Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2904Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2905
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002906Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010029072008 Sep 29)
2908
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002909In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2910check the result of has("patch13").
2911
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002912Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2913restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2914
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002915Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2916and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2917
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002918Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2919put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2920
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002921Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2922resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2923
2924In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2925can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2926
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002927GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2928maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2929doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002930Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2931visible.
2932
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002933When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2934differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002935
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002936The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2937be only one.
2938
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002939Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002940"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2941name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2942Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002943
2944Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2945(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2946
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002947Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2948as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2949
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002950Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
295123)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002952
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002953":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2954tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2955Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002956
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002957When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2958text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2959latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2960
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002961Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2962no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2963
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002964In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2965VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
29662007 Oct 16)
2967
2968TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2969Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2970
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002971Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002972
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002973When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2974typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2975Sep 3, 11)
2976
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002977":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2978this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2979
2980When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2981Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2982restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2983
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002984Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
29852010 Jun 30)
2986
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002987Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2988'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2989(Kartik Agaram)
2990
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002991
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002992Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002993- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2994 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2995- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2996 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2997 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2998- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2999 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3000 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003001- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3002- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003003
3004
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003005More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003006- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3007 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003008- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003009- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3010 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003011- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3012- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3013- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3014 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3015 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003016- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003017- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3018 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3019- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3020 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3021- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3022 21)
3023- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3024 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3025- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3026 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003027- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3028 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003029- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3030 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3031 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3032 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3033 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003034- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003035
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003036Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000030379 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3038 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3039 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3040 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3041 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3042 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3043 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3044 (Alan Schmitt)
3045 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003046 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3047 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000030489 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003049 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030508 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030517 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3052 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3053 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030548 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003055 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020030567 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003057 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3058- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3059 for multi-byte characters.
3060- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3061- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3062 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3063 been given values.
3064 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030657 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3066 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3067- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3068 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3069 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
30708 Add functions:
3071 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3072 Update 2004 Sep 10
3073 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3074 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003075 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003076 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3077 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3078 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3079 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3080 (2003 May 13)
3081 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3082 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003083 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3084 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003085 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3086 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3087 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030887 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3089 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030907 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3091 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000030928 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3093 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030947 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
30958 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3096 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
30977 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3098 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030997 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3100- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3101 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3102 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003103- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3104 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3105- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3106
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003107Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3108- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3109 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3110
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003111Quickfix/Location List:
3112- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3113 #2999)
3114- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3115 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3116 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3117 the quickfix buffer?
3118- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3119 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3120- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3121 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3122- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3123 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3124 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3125- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3126 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3127- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3128- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3129 2007 Jan 1)
3130- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3131 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3132- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3133 errors. How do we get the rest?
31348 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3135 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3136 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3137 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
31387 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3139 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003140
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003141Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003142- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3143 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031448 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3145 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3146 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3147 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3148 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3149 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031508 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3151 make Vim exit.
31527 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3153 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3154 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
31558 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3156 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3157 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
31586 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3159 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3160 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
31618 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3162 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3163 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3164 names in one buffer???
3165 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3166 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3167 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
31687 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3169 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3170 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003171 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3172 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031737 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3174 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
31757 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
31767 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031777 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3178 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3179 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3180 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
31817 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
31827 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
31837 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3184 to the match with the tag? Option?
31857 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
31867 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3187 (Sayre).
31887 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3189 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031907 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3191 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3192 match. Nvi can do it too.
31937 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3194 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3195 line 1\ line 2\\
3196 line 2\ line 3\\
3197 . line4/
31986 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3199 the way the shell is started?
32006 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3201 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3202
3203
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003204GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032059 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032068 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3207 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3208 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000032098 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3210 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3211 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032129 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3213 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3214 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3215 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003216- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3217 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3218 blocked for now.
3219
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003220
3221Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003222- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3223 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032248 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3225 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3226 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032276 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3228 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000032298 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3230 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3231 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032327 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3233 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3234 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032357 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3236 2004 May 9)
32378 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3238 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3239 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3240 MS-Windows 98?
3241 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3242 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3243 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3244 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032458 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3246 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3247 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3248 doesn't work properly.
32498 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3250 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3251 appears in the right position. (Webb)
32529 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3253 button doesn't give popup menu.
3254 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3255 selection.
3256 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3257 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3258 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
32598 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3260 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3261 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3262 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
32638 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3264 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3265 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032667 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3267 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003268 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032697 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3270 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032716 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
32728 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3273 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3274 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
32758 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3276 know which keyboard is being used?
32777 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3278 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3279 area (Koloseike).
32808 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3281 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3282 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3283 the font name).
3284
3285
3286Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000032876 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3288 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3289 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3290 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3291 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032929 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3293 required and it's missing?
32948 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3295 wrong.
32969 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3297 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000032989 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003299 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3300 flag.
33018 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3302 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3303 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
33048 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
33056 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3306 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3307 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3308 the tooltips work though...
33097 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3310 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
33118 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3312 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3313 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3314
3315
3316Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010033179 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3318 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033199 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3320 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3321 through files.
33227 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3323 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33244 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3325 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3326 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3327 problem during a refresh.
33285 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3329 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3330 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3331 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3332 colors as it should.
3333 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3334 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3335
3336
3337Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003338- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033397 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3340 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033418 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3342 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3343 (Phillipps)
3344
3345
3346GUI:
33479 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3348 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
33499 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003350 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003351 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
33529 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3353 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
33548 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3355 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
33568 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3357 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3358 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
33598 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3360 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3361 of where it is processing the output.
3362 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
33638 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3364 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010033658 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000033668 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3367 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3368 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020033698 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033708 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3371 browse().
33728 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3373 use that code? Or use console dialog.
33748 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3375 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033767 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3377 - regexp on/off
3378 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3379 when all buffers/directory is used:
3380 - filter for file name
3381 when directory is used:
3382 - subdirectory on/off
3383 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033848 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3385 to avoid problems.
33868 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3387 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3388 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
33898 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3390 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3391 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
33928 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3393 up. Set erase character somehow?
33948 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3395 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3396 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3397 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
33988 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
33997 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3400 visible.
34017 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3402 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
34037 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3404 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
34058 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3406 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
34078 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3408 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3409 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3410 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3411- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
34124 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3413 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3414 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3415
3416
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003417Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034188 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3419 a good fallback, thus use:
3420 $HOME
3421 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3422 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3423 $USERPROFILE
3424 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3425 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3426 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3427 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034288 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3429 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
34308 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3431 Should work like in the GUI version.
34328 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3433 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
34348 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3435 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
34368 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3437 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3438 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034398 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3440 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3441 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3442
3443
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003444Win32 console:
34459 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3446 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3447 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3448 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3449 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3450 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3451 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3452 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3453 and the file is not saved.
3454 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3455 long name.
34568 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3457 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
34587 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3459 besides the console.
34608 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
34619 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3462 <C-S-i>?
34639 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3464 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
34658 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3466 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003467
3468
3469Amiga:
34708 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3471 sequences.
34729 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3473 backslashes in result.
34748 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3475 all options, using white space separation.
3476
3477
3478Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003479- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034807 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3481 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3482 (Jack)
3483 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034848 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3485 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034868 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
34878 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
34889 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3489 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034909 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003491
3492
3493"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003494- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3495 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003496- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3497 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003498- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3499 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3500 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3501 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3502 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3503 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3504 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000035059 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3506 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000035079 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003508 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3509 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035108 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3511 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3512 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003513 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035147 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3515 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
35168 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3517 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3518 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035197 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3520 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003521- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3522 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035238 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3524 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3525 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3526 using the horizontal scrollbar.
35277 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3528 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3529 invocations belong together.
35308 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3531 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
35328 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3533 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3534 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003535 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035368 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3537 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3538 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035398 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3540 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035417 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3542 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3543 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3544 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035457 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3546 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3547 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
35487 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3549 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3550 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
35517 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3552 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035537 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3554 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035559 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3556 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3557 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3558 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3559 script can be called.
35608 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3561 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3562 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035638 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3564 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000035658 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003566 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3567 configurable?
35688 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035698 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3570 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035718 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3572 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035738 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3574 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035759 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3576 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3577 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035787 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035798 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3580 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3581 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000035828 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3583 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003584 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3585 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035868 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3587 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
35889 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3589 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3590 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003591 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035927 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3593 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035947 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3595 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3596 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3597 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035988 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003599 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3600 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3601 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3602 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003603 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3604 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003605 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003606 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003607 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3608 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3609 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3610 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3611 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036128 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3613 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
36148 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3615 in lines that don't extend into the block?
36168 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3617 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3618 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
36198 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3620 'linebreak'.
36218 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3622 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3623 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036249 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3625 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3626 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3627 'magic' in history. (Margo)
36289 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3629 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036309 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
36319 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3632 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3633 cause another redraw, etc.
36348 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3635 must escape special characters in the pattern.
36368 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3637 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3638 ":w!!" for that.
3639 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3640 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003641 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036427 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3643 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3644 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3645 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3646 clipboard)
36477 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3648 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3649 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000036506 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3651 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3652 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036538 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3654 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
36558 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3656 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3657 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
36588 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3659 (e.g., ":w").
36608 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3661 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036628 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3663 script in do_cmdline().
36648 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3665 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3666 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3667 changes.
36688 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3669 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
36708 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3671 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036728 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3673 to skip catch_signals()?
36749 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3675 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3676 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3677 text?
36788 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3679 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
36808 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3681 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
36829 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3683 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3684 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3685 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3686 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
36877 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3688 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3689 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3690 in the list?
36918 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3692 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3693 instead of on button down.
36948 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
36959 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3696 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003697 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3698 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036998 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3700 character is typed.
37018 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3702 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
37038 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3704 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
37058 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3706 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3707 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3708 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3709 cygwin bash.
37107 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3711 Remember flags for backreferences.
37127 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3713 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
37147 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3715 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
37168 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3717 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
37187 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3719 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037207 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3721 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3722 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
37237 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3724 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
37258 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3726 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3727 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
37287 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3729 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003730
3731
3732I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
37339 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3734 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3735 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003736
3737
3738Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003739- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3740 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3741 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003742- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3743 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3744 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3745 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3746 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3747 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003748 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003749- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3750 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003751 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003752 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3753 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3754 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003755- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3756 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3757 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3758 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3759 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3760- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3761 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3762 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3763- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3764 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003765- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003766- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3767 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3768 character gets the highlighting.
3769- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3770 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3771- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3772 (Jennings)
3773- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003774- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003775- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003776 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003777- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3778 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3779 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3780- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3781 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3782 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3783 (Benzinger).
3784- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3785 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3786 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3787- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3788 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3789- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3790 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3791- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3792 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3793 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3794 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3795 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3796 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3797- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3798 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3799 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003800- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3801 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3802 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003803- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3804 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3805 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3806- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3807 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3808- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3809 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003810- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3811 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3812- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3813 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3814 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3815 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3816 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3817- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3818 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3819 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3820- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3821 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3822 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003823- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3824 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 +00003825- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3826 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3827 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3828 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3829 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3830- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3831 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3832
3833--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3834 *extensions-improvements*
3835
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003836Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3837- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3838 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3839 calling a function.
3840 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3841 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003842- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3843 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003844 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003845- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3846 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3847 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3848 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3849 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3850 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003851 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003852- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3853 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3854 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003855- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3856 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000038578 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3858 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3859 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3860 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003861- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3862 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003863
3864
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003865Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038668 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3867 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000038688 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3869 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000038708 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3871 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038728 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038739 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3874 - change to cursor position and curswant
3875 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3876 - how it works for folded lines
3877 - how it works with multi-byte characters
38789 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3879 work too.
38808 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3881 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3882 text.
38838 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
38847 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3885 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
38867 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3887 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003888 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003889- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3890
3891
3892Help:
3893- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3894 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3895- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3896 to the other matches.
3897- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003898- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3899 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3900 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3901 default contents.
3902- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3903 height for the help window (and other windows).
3904- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3905- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3906- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3907
3908
3909User Friendlier:
39108 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3911 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3912 Briscoe)
39138 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
39148 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3915 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3916 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
39178 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3918 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3919- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3920 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003921- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
39229 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3923 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3924 item?).
3925 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039268 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000039277 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3928 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3929 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000039308 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3931 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3932 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3933 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003934
3935
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003936Tab pages:
39379 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039387 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3939 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039408 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000039418 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039427 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039437 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003944 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000039458 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3946 tab pages.
39477 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3948
3949
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003950Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003951- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3952 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3953- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3954 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3955 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3956- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3957 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003958- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3959 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3960 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003961- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3962 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3963 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003964- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3965 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003966- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003967 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3968 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000039698 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3970 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
39718 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3972 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
39738 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3974 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003975 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003976 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3977 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3978 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3979 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003980- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3981 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003982- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003983- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3984 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003985- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003986 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003987- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003988 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003989- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3990 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003991- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3992 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3993- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003994 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003995 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3996 in the affix file separately.
3997 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003998 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003999 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4000 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4001 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4002- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4003 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4004 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4005 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4006 Alternative:
4007 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4008 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4009 affix which is required.
4010- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004011 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004012- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4013 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4014 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004015- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4016 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004017- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4018 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4019- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040208 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4021 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4022 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4023 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004024- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4025 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4026 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4027 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040288 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4029 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040308 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
40318 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4032 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040337 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
40348 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4035 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4036 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4037 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004038
4039
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004040Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020040419 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4042 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020040438 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004044 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004045
4046Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004047 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4048 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040498 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4050 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020040518 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4052 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040538 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4054 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4055 user aware of this?
40568 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4057 commands skip over a closed fold.
40588 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
40598 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040607 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004061- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4062 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4063 missing line goes unnoticed.
4064 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004065- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4066 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4067 smoother?
4068- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4069 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004070- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4071 file can contain:
4072 args version.c main.c
4073 edit version.c
4074 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004075- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004076- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4077 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004078- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4079 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004080- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4081 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004082- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004083
4084Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004085- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4086 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4087 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4088 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040899 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4090 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4091 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4092 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020040939 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4094 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4095 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040968 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4097 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4098 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4099 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4100 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4101 item.
41028 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004103 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4104 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041058 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4106 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041078 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4108 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4109 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041107 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4111 so that the user can fix the problem.
41128 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4113 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041149 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
41158 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041168 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
41178 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041187 Searching and composing characters:
4119 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004120 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4121 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041228 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
41238 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
41248 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4125 characters.
41268 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
41278 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4128 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
41297 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4130 'display' option to specify this.
41317 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4132 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4133- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4134 fontselector somehow.
4135- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4136 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4137- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4138 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4139- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4140 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4141 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4142 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4143 if a font exists?
4144- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004145 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004146- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4147 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004148- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4149 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4150 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4151 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004152- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4153 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004154 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004155- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4156 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4157 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4158 But it's very complicated...
4159
4160
4161Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000041627 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004163- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4164- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4165 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004166- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4167 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004168- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4169- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4170 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004171- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4172 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004173- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4174 units as for the margins.
4175- Support right-to-left text?
41768 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4177 color.
4178
4179
4180Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041818 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4182 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
41838 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4184 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
41858 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4186 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000041877 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4188 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041898 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4190 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4191 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041927 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4193 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4194 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041958 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
41969 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4197 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041987 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4199 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000042007 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4201 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042028 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4203 change this for each release.
42048 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4205 pattern, but not in the body.
42068 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4207 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4208 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042098 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010042108 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004211 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4212 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042138 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4214 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
42158 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4216 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004217 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042188 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4219 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4220 used.
42218 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4222 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
42238 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4224 re-insert the [] if possible.
42258 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4226 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000042278 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4228 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4229 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4230 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4231 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042328 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4233 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
42348 Support for deleting syntax items:
4235 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4236 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4237 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
42388 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4239 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4240 a '<'. (Fleiner)
42417 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4242 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4243 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
42447 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4245 detected.
42468 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004247 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042488 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4249 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042508 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
42518 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
42527 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4253 ":mkvimrc".
42548 Improve c.vim:
4255 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4256 "c_strict_ansi".
4257 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
42588 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4259 current line while in Insert mode.
42608 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4261 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
42628 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4263 display position.
42648 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4265 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4266 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
42678 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4268 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4269 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000042707 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4271 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4272 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4273 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4274 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042757 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4276 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4277 E.g. for this html:
4278 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042797 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
42807 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4281 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042828 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
42838 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042847 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4285 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4286 completion?
42878 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4288 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
42897 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4290 select one of the sets.
42918 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4292 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4293 2, etc.
42948 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4295 highlighting (for "." command).
42968 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4297 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
42988 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
42997 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4300 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
43016 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4302 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4303- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4304 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4305- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004306- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4307 (for comment blocks).
4308- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4309 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4310 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4311 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4312 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4313 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4314 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4315 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4316 (Campbell)
4317 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4318 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
43197 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4320 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
43217 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4322 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4323 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
43247 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4325 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4326 messages. And external commands?
43278 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4328 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
43297 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4330 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4331
4332
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004333Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043348 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4335 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004336 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000043377 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4338 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4339 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043408 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4341 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004342- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020043438 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4344 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4345 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4346 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4347 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4348 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000043497 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4350 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043518 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010043528 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4353 can be the plugin name.
4354 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4355 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043567 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4357 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4358 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4359 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4360 autocommand.
4361 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4362 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4363 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4364 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043657 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4366 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043676 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4368 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043698 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004370 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4371 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004372 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4373 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4374 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004375 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4376 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4377 3 2002
4378 Only add this when also implemented for
4379 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4380 be used.
4381 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004382 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4383 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4384 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4385 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4386 File.Open..." argument.
4387 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4388 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4389 with properties instead.
4390 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4391 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4392 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004393 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004394 crypt() encrypt string
4395 decrypt() decrypt string
4396 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4397 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004398 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004399 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004400 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004401 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004402 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004403 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4404 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004405 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4406 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004407 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004408 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4409 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4410 to allow the library to execute a command or
4411 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044127 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4413 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
44148 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4415 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044168 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4417 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044188 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020044199 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004420 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
44216 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044228 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4423 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044248 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4425 option or environment variable.
44268 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044278 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004428 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044297 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4430 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044318 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4432 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
44338 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
44348 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4435 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4436 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4437 charwise({expr}).
44387 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4439 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4440 buffer for this?
4441 result = scratch(string, command)
4442 result = apply(string, command)
4443 result = execute(string, command)
4444 "command" would use <> notation.
4445 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
44467 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004447
4448
4449Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000044506 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4451 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4452 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4453 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4454 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4455 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4456 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004457
4458
4459Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044607 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4461 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020044627 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4463 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4464 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4465 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044668 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4467 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4468 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4469 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004470 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044718 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
44729 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
44738 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
44747 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4475 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
44768 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4477 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4478 when starting up in a color terminal.
44798 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4480 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044818 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4482 function be improved?
44838 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4484 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4485 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4486 this be improved?
44878 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4488 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000044897 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4490 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044917 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4492 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
44937 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4494 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044957 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4496 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4497 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4498 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4499 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4500 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4501 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045028 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4503 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4504 using strcmp() too often?
45057 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4506 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4507 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4508 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4509 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4510 the two blocks to the memfile block.
45117 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4512 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4513 with an argument that can be messed with.
4514 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4515 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
45167 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4517- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
45188 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4519 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4520- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4521 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4522- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4523- Do profiling on:
4524 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004525 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4526 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4527 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4528 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4529 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4530 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004531 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045327 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4533 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4534 changed).
4535 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4536 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4537- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4538- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4539 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4540- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4541 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4542 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004543- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4544- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4545 cursor is right of the screen.
45468 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4547 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4548
4549
4550Code size:
45518 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4552- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4553 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
45548 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
45558 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4556 it.
45577 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4558 left out.
45598 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4560 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010045618 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004562
4563
4564Messages:
45658 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4566 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
45678 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4568 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
45698 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4570 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004571- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4572 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4573- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045748 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4575 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045769 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4577 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4578 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4579 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4580 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045818 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4582 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
45838 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4584 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4585 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4586 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4587 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4588 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004589- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004590 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045918 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4592 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4593 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4594 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4595 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4596 error messages, printing text, etc.
45978 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4598 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4599 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4600
4601
4602Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004603- screen_line():
4604 - insert/delete character stuff.
4605 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4606- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4607 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4608- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4609 waiting for a character.
46108 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4611 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4612 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004613
4614Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020046158 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046166 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4617- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4618 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4619 windows.
46207 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4621 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4622 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4623- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4624 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4625 (Goldfarb)
4626- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4627 bound windows.
4628- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4629 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004630- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004631- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4632 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4633 of lines but not with a single line).
4634
4635
4636Autoconf:
46378 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
46388 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4639 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4640- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4641 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4642- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4643- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4644- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4645
4646
4647Perl interface:
46488 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046497 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
46507 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
46516 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4652
4653
4654Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020046558 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4656 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046576 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4658 :libload internal-name libname
4659 :libunload internal-name
4660 :liblist
4661 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4662 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4663 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
46646 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4665
4666
4667Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000046689 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4669 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4670 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4671 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4672 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000046738 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4674 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4675 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004676 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004677 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046787 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4679 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4680 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046818 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
46828 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4683 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046847 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4685 window for each tag.
46867 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
46877 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4688 bottom" search message.
46897 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4690 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4691 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004692- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4693- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004694- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4695 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4696 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046977 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4698 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4699 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4700 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
47017 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4702 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4703 :tagargs clear
4704 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4705 matching).
47067 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4707 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4708 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4709 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
47107 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4711 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
47127 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4713 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4714 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004715
4716
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004717Win32 GUI:
47188 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4719 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047207 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4721 (Mike McCollister)
47228 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4723 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4724 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4725 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4726 common part of the path.
47278 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
47288 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4729 gettext and menus work.
47308 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4731 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004732 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004733 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
47348 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4735 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
47368 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4737 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
47387 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4739 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
47407 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
47417 <Esc> should close a dialog.
47427 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4743 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4744 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4745 prompts.
47467 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4747 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4748 the file added into an already running Vim.
47497 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4750 functions to find the window title.
4751
4752
4753GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020047548 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004755- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4756 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
47577 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
47588 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
47596 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
47608 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4761 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
47629 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
47637 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
47648 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4765 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
47668 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4767 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4768 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
47698 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4770 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
47718 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4772 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4773 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4774 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047757 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
47768 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4777 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000047787 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4779 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4780 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047818 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
47828 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004783 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047848 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
47858 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
47868 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4787 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4788 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
47897 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4790 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4791 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
47927 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4793 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
47947 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4795 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4796 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4797 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047987 Should support multi-column menus.
4799- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4800 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4801- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
48028 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
48036 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4804 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
48057 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
48067 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4807 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4808 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
48097 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
48108 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4811 name can be chosen free.
48127 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4813 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
48146 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4815 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4816 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4817 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4818 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4819 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4820 things.
48217 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4822 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048237 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004824 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004825- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4826 where it was started from?
48277 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4828
4829
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004830Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020048319 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4832 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004833- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048348 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4835 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4836 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4837 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
48388 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4839 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000048407 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4841 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4842 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4843 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000048447 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048458 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4846 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048478 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4848 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4849 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048507 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4851 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4852 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048538 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4854 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4855 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048568 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4857 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048588 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048596 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4860 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000048617 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048627 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004863 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4864 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4865 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048665 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4867 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4868 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
48697 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4870 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4871 file.
48728 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4873 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4874 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004875- Add events to autocommands:
4876 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004877 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004878 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4879 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004880 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004881 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004882 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4883 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4884 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4885 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004886 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004887 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4888 the char.
4889 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4890 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4891 file from CVS).
4892 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4893 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4894 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4895 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4896 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4897 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004898 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4899 changes.
4900 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4901 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004902- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004903 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004904 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004905 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4906 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4907 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4908 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4909 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4910
4911
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004912Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004913- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4914 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004915- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4916 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4917 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4918 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4919 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004920- Ideas from others:
4921 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4922 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4923 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4924 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4925 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4926 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4927 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4928 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4929 Uses Perl for C++.
4930 Uses ctags to find the info:
4931 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4932 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4933 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4934 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4935 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4936 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004937 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004938 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4939- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4940
4941
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004942Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004943- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000049447 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4945 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000049467 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4947 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4948 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049498 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4950 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
49519 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4952 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4953 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049548 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4955 - ignore/match case
4956 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049578 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4958 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4959 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4960 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4961 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4962 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049638 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000049647 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4965 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049668 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4967 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4968 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4969 Should work for C++ and Java.
4970 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
49717 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
49727 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4973 instead of words.
49748 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
49758 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4976 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
49778 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4978 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004979- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4980 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004981- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4982 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4983 wildcards in the file name)?
4984- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4985- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4986- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4987 be in another file).
4988- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4989- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4990- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4991 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4992- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4993- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4994- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004995- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4996
4997
4998Command line editing:
49997 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5000 line.
50018 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5002 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5003 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5004- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5005 lines wraps to start of line).
5006- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5007 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5008 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5009 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5010 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5011 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5012 cmdwin does now already.
5013 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5014 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5015 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5016 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5017 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5018 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5019 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5020 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5021 Problems:
5022 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5023 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5024 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5025 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5026 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5027 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5028 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5029 character in first column?
5030 - Implementation ideas:
5031 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5032 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5033 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5034 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5035 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5036 Mode.
5037
5038
5039Command line completion:
50408 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
50418 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5042 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
50438 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5044 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050458 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5046 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050477 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5048 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005049- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5050- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5051 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050528 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5053 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
50547 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5055 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5056- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5057 identifiers (Webb).
50588 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5059 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
50607 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5061 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5062- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5063 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5064- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5065 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5066 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005067
5068
5069Command line history:
5070- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5071 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5072 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005073 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005074- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5075 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5076
5077
5078Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000050799 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5080 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5081 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050828 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5083 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5084 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5085 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5086 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050878 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5088 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5089 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050907 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5091 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005092- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050937 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5094 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5095- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5096 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5097 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5098 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5099 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5100 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5101- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5102 Normal mode.
5103- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5104 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5105 are used.
5106- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5107- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5108- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5109
5110
5111'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051129 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5113 char * veryLongName =
5114 "very long string"
5115 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051168 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051178 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5118 long_type foo =
5119 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051208 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5121 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005122 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051238 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5124 func(
5125 new String[] {
5126 "asdf",
5127 "asdf"
5128 }
5129 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010051308 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5131 (Chow Loong Jin)
5132 namespace {
5133 int
5134 func(int arg) {
5135 }
5136 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051376 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5138 func( arg1
5139 , arg2
5140 , arg3
5141 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000051427 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005143 func(
5144 int x) // indent like "(4"
5145 {
5146 if (a
5147 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051489 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5149 if (a)
5150 {
5151 if (b)
5152 {
5153 // {
5154 }
5155 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005156 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5157 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5158 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005159- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005160 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
51617 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5162- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5163 line).
5164- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5165- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5166 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005167- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5168 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5169- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5170 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5171- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5172- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5173 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
51748 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5175 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5176 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5177- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5178- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5179 lines start with "\item".
5180- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5181 /* here is a comment that
5182 is just autoindented, and
5183 nothing else */
5184- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
51857 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5186 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5187 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005188 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005189
5190
5191Java:
51928 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5193 Odendahl?
51948 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5195 "[i" commands and friends.
5196- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5197 (Jason)
5198- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5199 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5200
5201
5202'comments':
52038 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5204 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5205 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5206 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005207 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5208 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052097 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5210 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
52117 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
52126 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5213 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5214 regexp is used.
52158 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5216 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5217
5218
5219Virtual edit:
52208 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052217 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5222
5223
5224Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052258 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052268 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000052278 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005228 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052298 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5230 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005231 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5232 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000052338 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052348 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5235 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052368 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5237 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5238 the end of the line or before a ".".
52397 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5240 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
52417 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5242 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052436 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
52445 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5245 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5246 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5247 cursor is on.
5248
5249
5250Select mode:
52518 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5252 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
52537 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005254 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052557 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5256 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5257 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5258 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5259 normal_cmd().
5260 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5261 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5262
5263
5264Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020052658 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5266 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005267- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5268 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5269 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005270- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5271 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5272 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052738 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005274 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005275 where needed.
52767 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5277 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
52787 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5279 of each selected line.
52808 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
52818 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5282 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5283 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
52848 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5285 Ben Godfrey)
52867 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5287 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
52887 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5289 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052907 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005291 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005292 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
52938 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5294 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
52957 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5296 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5297 option!
52987 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5299 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5300 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5301 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5302 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5303 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5304 without changing the column.
53056 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053067 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5307 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053086 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5309 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
53106 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053116 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005312 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005313 or other special character.
53146 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5315
5316
5317More advanced repeating commands:
5318- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005319- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005320- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005321 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5322 "y." will repeat last yank.
5323 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5324 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5325 and/or pick an older command.
5326- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5327
5328
5329Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053308 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5331 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5332 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
53338 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
53347 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5335 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053368 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5337 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
53388 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000053397 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053408 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5341 entering search strings.
53428 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5343 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5344 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053458 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5346 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053477 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053487 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5349 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053506 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5351 abbreviations are to be used.
5352- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5353 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5354 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005355- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5356 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5357 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5358 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5359 Or implicit:
5360 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005361- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5362 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5363 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005364- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5365 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5366- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5367 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
53686 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5369 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5370 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5371 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005372- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5373 non-replace Insert mode?
5374- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005375- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5376- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5377 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5378- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005379 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005380- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5381 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5382- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5383- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5384 ":freekeys".
5385- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5386
5387
5388Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005389- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5390 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5391- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5392 folds when going to another line.
5393 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5394- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5395 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005396- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5397 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5398 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005399- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5400 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5401 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5402 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020054039 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5404 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005405
5406
5407Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054089 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000054098 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005410 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005411 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005412 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005413 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010054149 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5415 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010054168 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5417 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000054188 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5419 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5420 Perl does it this way:
5421 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5422 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5423 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5424 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000054258 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5426 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5427 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000054287 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5429 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000054308 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5431 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054327 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005433 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5434 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5435 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000054367 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005437 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054387 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5439 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054408 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5441 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
54428 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5443 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020054447 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005445 example.
54468 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5447 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5448- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5449 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5450 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5451 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054528 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5453 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5454 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
54557 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5456 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000054577 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5458 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054598 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5460 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054618 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5462 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054638 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5464 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5465 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5466 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005467- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5468 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005469- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5470 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5471- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5472 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5473 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5474 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054758 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5476 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005477- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5478 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000054798 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5480 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5481 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005482- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5483 i ignore case
5484 I use case
5485 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5486 v use Vi regexp syntax
5487 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5488 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5489 Perl uses these too:
5490 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5491 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5492 o compile only once (Perl only)
5493 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5494 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5495 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5496 following command.
5497 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5498- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5499 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5500 for search string)?
55017 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5502 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5503- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5504 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5505- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5506 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5507- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5508- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005509 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005510 a for the next file in the argument list
5511 f for file in the buffer list
5512 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005513 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5514 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005515 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5516 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5517- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055187 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005519 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055207 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5521 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5522 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5523 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
55246 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5525 effects.
55267 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5527 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5528 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000055297 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005530 Also ":dselect".
5531
5532
5533Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055349 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5535 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5536 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055379 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5538 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020055398 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5540 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055418 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5542 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5543 timestamp?
5544 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5545 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005546- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5547 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005548- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5549 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5550 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
55518 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5552 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5553 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5554 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
55558 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5556 only remember the lines that really changed.
55577 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5558 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5559 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5560 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005561- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5562 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5563- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5564 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5565- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5566 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5567 [-99].
5568- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5569- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005570- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5571 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5572
5573
5574Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055757 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5576 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5577 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5578 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
55798 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5580 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
55818 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5582 inode too.
55837 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005584 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5585 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055867 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5587 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5588- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5589 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5590- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5591 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
55927 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5593 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
55947 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5595 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
55968 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055977 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5598 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010055998 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5600 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5601 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005602
5603
5604Swap (.swp) files:
56058 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5606 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5607 there are short file name problems.
56088 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5609 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
56108 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
56118 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005612 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005613 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5614 file the same as the actual file?
5615 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056167 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5617 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
56187 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005619 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005620 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5621 enough room.
56227 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5623 or /var/preserve.
5624- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5625 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5626- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005627 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005628- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5629 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5630 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5631 cached list of which line is where.
5632
5633
5634Viminfo:
56357 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5636 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5637 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000056388 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5639 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5640 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056418 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5642 name. (Schild)
56438 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
56448 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056458 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056468 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5647 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5648 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5649 this?
56507 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
56517 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5652 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
56536 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5654 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5655 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5656- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5657 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5658
5659
5660Modelines:
56618 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5662 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5663 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005664- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5665 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5666 'shiftwidth'.
5667- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5668 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005669- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5670 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5671 modeline setting.
5672- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5673 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5674- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5675 .cpp files.
5676- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5677 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5678- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5679 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5680
5681
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005682Sessions:
56838 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5684 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
56857 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5686 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056878 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5688 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056898 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5690 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5691 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000056927 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5693 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000056947 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005695
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005696
5697Options:
56987 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5699 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057008 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5701 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5702 also be supported.
57038 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5704 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5705 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57067 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005707
5708
5709External commands:
57108 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5711 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57124 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5713 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5714 -f).
57154 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57164 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5717 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57184 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5719
5720
5721Multiple Windows:
57227 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57238 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5724 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
57257 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5726 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5727 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000057287 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5729 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000057307 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5731 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057326 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5733 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005734 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005735 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
57367 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5737 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5738 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5739 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5740- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5741 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5742 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5743 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5744
5745
5746Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057478 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057488 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5749 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000057508 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 +000057518 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5752 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
57538 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5754 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5755 the mark was set.
57567 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5757 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5758 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5759 ":browse marks"?
57606 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057617 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5762 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
57637 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5764 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
57657 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5766 command).
57677 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5768 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5769 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5770 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
57715 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5772 mappings.
57736 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5774 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5775 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5776
5777
5778Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020057797 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005780 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005781- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5782 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000057838 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057847 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5785 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5786
5787
5788Writing files:
5789- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5790 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5791 shortname conversion.
57928 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
57938 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5794 file.
57958 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5796 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5797 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057986 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5799 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58006 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5801 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58026 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5803 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058048 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005805 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58067 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5807 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
58087 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5809 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5810 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5811 waiting for a character to be typed).
58128 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5813 line of the window, like "[time]".
5814 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5815 Automatic and/or with a command.
5816
5817
5818Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058198 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5820 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058218 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005822 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5823- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5824- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
58258 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5826 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005827- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005828 :s///N substitutes N times.
5829- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5830 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5831 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
58327 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5833 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5834 last line column 5.
58355 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5836 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5837 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5838 (Stanislav Sitar)
5839
5840
5841Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058428 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
58437 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
58448 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5845 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5846 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005847- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5848- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5849 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5850- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5851- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5852
5853
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005854Argument list:
58556 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5856 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5857 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
58586 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5859
5860
5861Registers:
58628 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058638 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5864 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5865 for every line.
58666 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5867 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5868 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5869- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5870 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5871- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5872 leader when line wraps?
5873- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5874 line in the range.
5875- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5876 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
58778 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5878 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005879
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005880
5881Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058828 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000058838 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058847 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
58857 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5886
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005887Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000058887 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5889 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5890 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5891 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5892 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5893 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5894 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005895 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000058967 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5897 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000058987 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5899 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059008 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5901 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059027 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5903 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5904 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005905- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005906 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059077 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5908 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59098 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059107 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5911 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59128 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5913 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059146 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059158 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5916 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5917 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5918 in this Vim.
59198 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005920 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059218 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5922 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5923 have it apply to the following command.
59248 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5925 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5926 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5927 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059287 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5929 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059307 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5931 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5932 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5933 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059346 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
59358 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
59369 Support ACLs on more systems.
59377 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5938 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059397 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5940 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5941 (truncated to fit in the space).
59427 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
59438 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
59448 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5945 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000059467 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005947 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
59487 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5949 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059507 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059517 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
59527 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059538 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
59548 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5955 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5956 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5957 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
59588 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059598 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059608 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5961 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5962 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5963 does something like this. (Shah)
59647 Use growarray for replace stack.
59657 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5966 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
59673 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059687 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5969 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010059707 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5971 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005972- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5973- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5974- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5975- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
59767 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5977 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5978- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5979 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005980- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005981- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5982 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5983- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5984 call "play newbeep.au").
5985- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5986 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5987 (Bhatt).
5988- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5989 blockwise registers).
5990- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5991 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5992- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5993 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5994 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5995 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005996- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059977 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5998 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5999- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6000 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6001 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6002 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6003 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060048 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6005 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060068 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6007 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6008 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6009 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6010 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6011- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006012- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060137 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6014 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6015- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6016 not in column 1.
60176 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6018 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60197 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6020- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006021- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006022 :redir #> bufname
6023 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006024- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6025 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006026- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6027 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6028 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
60296 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6030 console? (Klaus Hast)
6031- Add :delcr command:
6032 *:delcr*
6033 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6034 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6035 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6036 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6037 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006038 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006039- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6040- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6041 characters from 'isprint'.
6042- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6043- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6044 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6045- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6046 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6047 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6048- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6049- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6050 Nvi).
6051- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6052 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
60537 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6054- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6055 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
60566 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6057- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6058 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6059 macro).
6060- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006061- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6062 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6063- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
60648 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006065- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6066- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6067- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6068 if it is not the first or last window.
6069- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6070 there is one) instead of the file itself.
60717 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6072 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6073 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6074- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6075- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006076 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006077 many percent down the windows).
6078- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6079 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6080 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006081 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006082- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6083 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6084- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6085 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6086- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6087- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6088- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6089 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060908 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6091 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6092 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6093 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6094 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006095- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6096 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6097- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006098 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6099- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006100 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6101 (Webb).
6102- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006103 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006104- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6105 hex codes like 0xff).
6106- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6107 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6108 the last TYPED command.
6109- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6110- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6111- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6112 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006113- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061148 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6115 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6116 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006117- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006118 trailing '.'.
6119- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6120 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6121 find_file_in_path().
6122- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6123 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6124- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6125- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6126 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6127- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006128 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006129- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6130 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6131 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006132- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6133- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6134- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6135 to the minimal size.
6136- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6137- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6138- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6139- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6140- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006141- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6142 entered)?
6143- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6144 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006145- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006146- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6147- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6148- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6149- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6150- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6151 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006152- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061538 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6154 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6155 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6156 or in octal.
61577 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6158 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006159- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006160 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6161- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6162- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6163 insert line command).
6164- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6165- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6166- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6167- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6168- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6169 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006170- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006171 yet.
6172- Implement 'redraw' option.
6173- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6174 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061757 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6176 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006177 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6178 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061798 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6180 do it.
6181- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6182- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6183 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6184- Add text justification option.
6185- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6186- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6187 off".
6188- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6189- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6190- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006191 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006192- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006193- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006194- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6195 commands.
6196- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6197- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6198- :table command (Webb)
6199- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006200- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6201- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6202- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6203- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6204- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6205 (Demirel).
6206- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6207- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6208 for use in macro's and the like.
6209- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006210 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006211- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006212 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006213- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006214 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006215 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6216- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6217 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006218- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006219 mkopttab to make option table?
6220- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6221 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6222- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6223 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006224- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006225 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6226- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6227 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006228- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000062298 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6230 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6231 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6232 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6233 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062348 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6235 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6236 (Netherton)
62376 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6238 space after "(", for example.
62395 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6240 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6241 (Servatius Brandt)
6242
6243
6244From Elvis:
6245- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6246- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006247- Search patterns:
6248 \@ match word under cursor.
6249 but do:
6250 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6251 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
62528 ":window" command:
6253 :win + next window (up)
6254 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6255 :win - previous window (down)
6256 :win -- idem, wrapping
6257 :win nr to window number "nr"
6258 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
62597 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6260 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6261
6262
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006263From xvi:
6264- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6265- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6266
6267
6268From vile:
6269- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6270- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6271 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6272
6273
6274Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006275- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6276 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006277 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006278 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6279 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006280- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6281 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6282- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6283 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6284 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6285 current layout mirrored.
6286- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6287- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6288 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6289- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6290- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6291 font in each top-level window.
6292- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6293- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6294- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6295- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6296 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006297- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6298 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6299- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6300 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63014 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6302 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6303 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6304 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006305 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006306 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6307 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6308- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6309 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6310 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6311
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006312vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006313vim: set fo+=n :