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Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2012 May 18
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020037Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010038
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020039Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
40
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +020041Bug caused by patch 7.3.449. (Alex Afros, May 16)
42
43Add link to i/OS version on download page:
44http://applidium.com/en/applications/vim/
45
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +010046GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
47(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +010048
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +020049Patch: home_replace() does not work whtn 8.3 filename. (Yasuhiro
50Matsumoto, 2012 Apr 18) Asked for another version of the patch.
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +020051Again May 18.
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +020052
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +020053Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
54
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +020055Spell checking: "zg" doesn't pick up the "ß" character. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200561)
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +020057
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +010058Win32: When a directory name contains an exclamation mark, completion doesn't
59complete the contents of the directory. No escaping for the "!"? (Jan
60Stocker, 2012 Jan 5)
61
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +010062Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +010063
Bram Moolenaar9a7224b2012-04-30 15:56:52 +020064Cursor on wrong line after ":copen". (John Beckett, 2012 Apr 30)
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +020065Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 2. But calling changed_window_setting()
66would be a simpler solution.
Bram Moolenaar9a7224b2012-04-30 15:56:52 +020067
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +010068Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
69not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010070
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020071Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
72Or use expand('<sid>')?
73
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010074Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar causes
75the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan 12)
76Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
77
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010078URXVT:
79- will get stuck if byte sequence does not containe expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010080- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
81 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
82
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +020083Patches from Debian for python ftplugin. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 6)
84Also patches from Debian for Spanish translations.
85
86Patch for IBM z/OS makefile. (Stephen Bovy, 2012 Apr 26)
87Patch for configure (Stephen Bovy, 2012 Apr 28)
88Updates later. Context diff May 7.
89
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010090When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
91for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
92Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010093
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020094Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 24, updated patch)
958 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
96 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
97
Bram Moolenaar9a7224b2012-04-30 15:56:52 +020098Patch for auto copy selecting to + register. (by Christian Brabant, in email
99from Sergey Vakulenko, 2012 Apr 27)
100
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200101Patch to add "onselected" callback for completion. (Taro Muraoka, 2011 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100102Another for CompleteFuncOk. (Florian Klein, 2012 Jan 31)
103Name it "CompleteFuncDone".
104
105Patch for Make_mvc.mak and Make_ming.mak for Ruby support. (Yasuhiro
106Matsumoto, 2012 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200107
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200108Patch for 'backupcopy' default behavior for symlinks on Windows. (David Pope,
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001092012 Mar 21, update Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200110
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200111Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
112
113Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
114
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100115Use a count before "v" and "V" to select that many characters or lines?
116(Kikyous)
117
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200118Problem with winfixheight and resizing. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Sep 17)
119Patch Sep 18.
120
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200121Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
122And one for gui_x11.txt.
123
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200124Patch for Python: add pyeval() and vim.bindeval() (zyx, 2012 Apr 15, update
125Apr 16) Also changes for Lua. Update Apr 19. Update Apr 22.
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200126
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100127":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
128finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
129Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
130
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200131Problem with l: dictionary being locked in a function. (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200132
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100133Issue 48: foldopen error can't be caught by try/catch
134
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200135Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
136they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
137
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100138Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
139
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100140Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
141Nov 20)
142
Bram Moolenaar53bfca22012-04-13 23:04:47 +0200143Patch to add ":py3do". (Lilydjwg, 2012 Apr 7)
144
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100145`[ moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
146(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
147
148Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
149
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200150Updated syntax file for ssh_config, maintainer doesn't respond.
151(Leonard Ehrenfried, 2011 Sep 26)
152
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100153BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
154Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
155
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100156Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
157Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
158
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100159Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
160
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100161Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
162Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
163
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200164'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
165'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
166Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200167Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200168Also: Alignment in help with tabs gets messed up, esp. at ":help index".
169Probably need to make a tab work like there was no concealing. Possibly with
170an option. Like line wrapping works as if there is no concealing.
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200171Patch by Dominique Pelle, Also fixes "fC" problem.
172 "fC" doesn't position the cursor correctly when there are concealed
173 characters. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Oct 11)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200174
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200175With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
176(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
177need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
178
179Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
180only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
18121, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
182
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200183'cursorline' is drawn incorrectly in diff mode. Patch by Christian Brabandt,
1842012 Apr 2.
185
186'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
187highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
188
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100189Win32: Does building a 64 bit version with VC9 give warnings for int
190conversions? (Mike Williams)
191
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100192Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
193New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
194
195Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
196Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
197
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100198Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
199Jan 19)
200
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200201Win32: default for 'backupcopy' is wrong for a symbolic link. (mklink one
202two). (Benjamin Fritz, 2012 Mar 15)
203
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200204Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200205
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100206"2" in 'formatopions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
207Oct 26)
208
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200209Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
210
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200211With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
212register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200213
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200214In GTK Gvim, setting 'lines' and 'columns' to 99999 causes a crash (Tony
215Mechelynck, 2011 Apr 25). Can reproduce the crash sometimes:
216 gvim -N -u NONE --cmd 'set lines=99999 columns=99999'
217(gvim:25968): Gdk-WARNING **: Native Windows wider or taller than 65535 pixels are not supported
218The program 'gvim' received an X Window System error.
219This probably reflects a bug in the program.
220The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
221 (Details: serial 313 error_code 161 request_code 149 minor_code 8)
222 (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
223 that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
224 To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
225 option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
226 backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
227Check that number of pixels doesn't go above 65535?
228
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200229popup completion menu closes quickly when there is a fold in the buffer. (Jan
230Christoph Ebersbach, 2011 Jul 3)
231
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200232Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
233
234This line hangs Vim, because of syntax HL:
235call append(line, "INFO ....12....18....24....30....36....42....48....54....60....66....72....78%$")
236
237When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
238(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
239
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100240Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
241Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
242
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200243Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
244
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200245Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
246doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
247Jun 17)
248
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100249When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
250then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
251from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
252
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200253Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
254":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
25515)
256
257Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
258
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200259Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
260
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200261On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
26264 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
263right type.
264
265string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
266(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
267
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200268Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
269
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200270When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
271(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
272
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200273When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
274doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
275
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002767 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
277Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
278
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200279maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
280mapping, how to restore the script ID?
281
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200282Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
283(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
284
285Highlighting stops working after changing it many times. Script to reproduce
286it: Pablo Contreras, 2010 Oct 12 Windows XP and 7. Font is never freed?
287
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200288When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
289indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
290the help file.
291
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200292After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
293Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
294
295Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
296
297"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
298
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200299Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
30030)
301
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200302Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
303May 24) Update May 26.
304
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100305Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
306
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200307When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
308following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
309(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
310
311Problem with "syn sync gouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
312
313Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
3142010 Dec 18)
315
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200316With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
317number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
318Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
319
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02003208 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
321Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
322
3238 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
324 after typing something.
325Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
326function that resets did_cursorhold.
327Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
328
3297 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
330Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
331Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
332
3339 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
334 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
335Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
336
337Patch to fix \%V item in regexp. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Nov 8)
338Update Nov 19. James Vega: still not right. Christian: it's difficult.
339
340Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
341Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
342
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200343In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
344or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
345sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
346
347GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
348doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
349
350GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
351
352Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
353Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
354
355Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
356
3577.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
358there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
359do?
360
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200361Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
36222)
363
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100364New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
365- move compflags to separate growarray?
366- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*", '+'. What would be
367 the maximum repeat for * and +?
368
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100369"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
3702011 Feb 27)
371
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200372Copy/paste between Vim and Google chrome doesn't work well for multi-byte
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200373characters. (Ben Haskell, 2010 Sep 17)
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200374When putting text in the cut buffer (when exiting) and conversion doesn't work
375properly, Prepend "ENC==={value of 'enc'}:" to the text and don't convert?
376Then it should at least work from Vim to Vim and in other applications it's
377clear why it doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200378Experimental patch by Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 19.
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200379
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200380Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
381^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
382
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100383When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
384exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
3859) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
386
387g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
388the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
389
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100390Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
391crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
392
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100393Python: Adding line to buffer other than the current one doesn't work
394correctly. (Rozbujnik, 2010 Dec 19)
395
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200396Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
397names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
398Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
399the system encoding (usually utf-8).
400
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200401Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
402Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
403
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200404'beval' option should be global-local.
405
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100406Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200407
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200408setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200409
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02004107 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
411 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
412 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
413
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200414getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
415element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
416Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Check that new argument is optional
417and that it's documented.
418
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200419With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
4202010 Oct 24)
421
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100422Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
423Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
424
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200425Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
426
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200427When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
428Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
429
Bram Moolenaardc685ab2010-08-13 21:16:49 +0200430Test 73 fails on MS-Windows when compiled with DJGPP and run twice. How to
431delete the Xfind directory? Add an rmdir() function, just like we have
432mkdir().
433
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200434":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
435
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200436'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
437
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100438C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
439checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
440Issue 46.
441
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100442When 'paste' is changed with 'pastetoggle', the ruler doesn't reflect this
443right away. (Samuel Ferencik, 2010 Dec 7)
444
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200445Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
446
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100447Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
448gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
449
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200450":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
451accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
452
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200453Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
454setwinvar().
455
Bram Moolenaar9de99972010-08-09 22:33:06 +0200456Echo starts in the wrong column:
457 while 1 | let s = input('A') | echo 'R' | endw
458(Boyko Bantchev, 2010 Aug 9)
459
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100460Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
461
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100462When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
463(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
464
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200465Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200466(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200467
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200468When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
469instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
470
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100471Crash in setqflist(). (Benoit Mortgat, 2010 Nov 18)
472
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200473Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
474Winckler, 2011 May 11)
475Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100476
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100477Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
478back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
479
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100480Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
481one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
482Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 17. Needs test.
483
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100484Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200485Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
486
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100487CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
488the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
489FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
490
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200491Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
492Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
493
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200494Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
495Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
496
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100497I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
498Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
499an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100500
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200501Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
502
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100503Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
504non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100505
506iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
507Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
508or replace with a character and continue?
509
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100510Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
511Requires configure check for localtime().
512Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
513
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100514Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
515Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
516path.
517
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100518Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
519Dominique can't reproduc it.
520
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200521'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
522
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200523":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
524like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
525
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100526Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200527Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
528
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100529Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
5302010 Nov 5)
531
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100532Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
533Jan 7)
534
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100535Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
536Only with "vim -u NONE".
537
538Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
539
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100540With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
541entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
542Feb 12)
543
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200544Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
545characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
546
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100547Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
548
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200549Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
550 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
551
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200552Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert
553mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg)
554Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100555
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200556Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce
557it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274.
558(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27)
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100559Generally, folding with 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to
560find out why.
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200561
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200562Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
563
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200564When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
565Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
566
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100567Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file. Works OK for
568echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar 17)
569
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100570When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
571not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
572string value.
573
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200574":e ~br<Tab>" does not complete to ":e /home/bram/". Would need to use
575getpwent() to find all the matches.
576
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100577Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
578
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100579For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
580line argument -noregister.
581
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100582When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
583missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
584
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200585When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
586doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100587
588Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
589(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
590Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
591There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
592Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
593
594":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
595highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
596to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
597
598Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
599Probably needs a bit of work.
600
601List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
602Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
603
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200604Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
605
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100606Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
607
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200608Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
609Sep 1)
610
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100611Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
612
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +0200613Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
614on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
615
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100616Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
6172009 Jul 18)
618
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100619Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
620Added test, updates, June 23.
621
622Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
623window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
624Needs more work.
625
626Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
627
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100628When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
629few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
630
631'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
632(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
633
634Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
635J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
636
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200637When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
638for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
639
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200640Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
641
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200642Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
643
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100644When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
645
646":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
647because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
648ex_docmd.c.
649
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200650Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100651Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
652
653string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
654for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
655
656Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
657
658'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
65920)
660
661Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
662And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
66323)
664
665Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
6662009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
667
668Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
669
670Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
671SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
672
673When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
674cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
675
676When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
677indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
678(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
679
680Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
681are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
682Ignore window options when not in the right window?
683Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
684that doesn't have a window.
685
686When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
687doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
688
689getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
690displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
691
692":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
693
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100694There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
695was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
696perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
697
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +0200698Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
699
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200700Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
701file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
702system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
703
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100704Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
705work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
706Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
707
708Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
709
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100710Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
711command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
712
713Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
714
715Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
716does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
717
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200718opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
719height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +0200720very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200721
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100722Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
723(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
724
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100725Session file generates error upon loading, cause bu --remote-silent-tab.
726(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
727
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100728Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
729char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
730
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100731A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (Zyx, 2010 Dec 25)
732
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100733Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
734messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
735es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
7362009 Jan 26)
737
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100738When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100739in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
740Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
741
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100742Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
743a modeline.
744
745Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
746Sergey Khorev)
747
748Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
749part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000750
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000751netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
752number to be below last visible line.
753
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100754After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
755correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
756
757Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
758(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
759
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100760shellescape() depends on 'shellshash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
761'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
762Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
763unix-like shell?
764
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100765Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
766that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
767
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200768Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
769register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
770(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
771
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100772Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
773Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
774
775Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
776make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
777
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100778When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
779still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
780
781"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
782(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
783
784Update src/testdir/main.aap.
785
786"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
787
788Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
789that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
790ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
791Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
792
793Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
794
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000795Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
796
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100797MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
798doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
799probably causes this.
800
801'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02008022009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100803
804Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
805 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
806 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
807(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
808
809Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
810":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
811option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
812is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000813
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100814":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
815first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000816
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000817Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
818laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
819Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000820
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100821Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
822anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
823
824On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
825doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
826Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
827Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
828
829":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
830
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000831When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
832'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
833fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
834the buffer to be unmodified.
835Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
836another look at it.
837
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100838c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
839(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
840
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100841You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
842error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
843Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
844at the other match for 0xBF.
845
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000846Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000847
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100848When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
849argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
850
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000851Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
852backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
853
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200854Win32: bold font doesn't work when 'guifontwide' has been set. (Yue Wu, 2010
855Aug 23)
856
857When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
858line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
859
860Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
861position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
862
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000863After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
864(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000865command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000866
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000867":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
868Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
869
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100870Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
871Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
872
873When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
874either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
875put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
876
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000877Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
878Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
879Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
880Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
881(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
882
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100883Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
884
885ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000886
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000887Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
888(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
889escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
890an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000891This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
892July 7)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000893
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000894Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
8952008 May 14)
896
897Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
898Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
899'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
900
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100901Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
902Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
903
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000904Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
905Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
906
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100907Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
908
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000909The utf class table is missing some entries:
910 0x2212, minus sign
911 0x2217, star
912 0x2500, bar
913 0x26ab, circle
914
915Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
916line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
917
918GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
919Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
920
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100921Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
922try the Cocoa version.
923
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000924Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
925changed or the window is resized.
926
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100927GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
928the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
929
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000930Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
931Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000932
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000933Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
9341) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
935
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000936C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
937with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
938Try to reproduce at work.
939
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100940Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
941Is there a way to list all the files first?
942
943When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
944result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
94516)
946
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200947Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
948Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
949
950Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
951(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
952
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000953Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
954Await response to question to make the register writable.
955
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100956src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
957remark why.
958
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000959Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
9601)
961
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100962In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
963each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
964
965try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
966
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100967try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
968
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100969":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
970Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
971
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100972Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
973
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000974Including NFA regexp code:
975Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
976Useful in tests.
977Performance tests:
978- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
979- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
980- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100981- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100982- ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000983- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
984 'hlsearch'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000985
986Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
987Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
988
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000989Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
990Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
991Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000992
993C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
994(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
995
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100996Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
997":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200998Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100999
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001000When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1001and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1002
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001003Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1004 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1005
1006New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1007
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001008":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1009a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1010
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001011'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1012Likonen, March 19)
1013
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001014Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1015other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1016
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001017The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1018appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1019matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1020
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001021When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1022character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1023'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1024(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1025
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001026Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1027Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001028
1029More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1030
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001031Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1032http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1033
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001034Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1035back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1036Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001037
1038Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1039No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1040
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001041Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1042terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001043
1044Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1045
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001046Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1047but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1048that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001049
1050When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1051
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001052Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1053Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1054
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001055Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1056popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1057size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1058This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1059
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001060Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1061a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1062isn't right?
1063
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001064When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1065it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1066
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001067Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1068then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1069files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001070Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1071indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1072":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
1073in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
1074quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
1075Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001076
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001077When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1078parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1079neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1080particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1081Jun 3)
1082However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1083the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001084
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001085A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1086Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1087
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001088Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1089Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1090
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001091Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1092switch list is noticed:
1093 switch (i)
1094 {
1095 case 1:
1096 foobar:
1097 }
1098
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001099Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1100
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001101Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1102with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1103go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1104moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1105
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001106Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001107Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010011088 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1109 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1110 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001111Alternative: MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001112
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001113Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
111464-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1115
1116Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1117Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1118Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1119argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1120(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1121
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001122Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1123(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1124
1125Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1126makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1127.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1128 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1129
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001130Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
11312007 Feb 8)
1132
1133Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
1134 Sutcliffe says it works well.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001135 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001136 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
1137
1138Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1139set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001140
1141Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1142
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001143Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1144
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001145Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1146Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1147New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1148patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1149
1150Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1151Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1152
1153Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
1154Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
1155Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
1156
1157Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1158
1159Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
11602007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001161Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001162
1163Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001164label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1165
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001166Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1167with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1168Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001169
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001170Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1171pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
1172
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001173Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1174
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001175Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001176Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001177Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
1178
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001179Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1180Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1181only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1182
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001183Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
1184Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
1185
1186Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1187Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
1188Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
1189properly?
1190
1191Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
11922007 Jun 21)
1193
1194When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1195Jun 18)
1196
1197If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1198
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001199Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1200windows. (Adam George)
1201
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001202F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1203modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1204K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001205
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001206UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1207to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1208
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001209In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1210the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1211
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001212C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1213
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001214":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1215
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001216When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001217error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001218
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001219Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1220use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1221
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001222Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1223if_ruby.c.
1224
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001225":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1226
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001227Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
1228Needs more work.
1229
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001230The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1231it in keep_msg?
1232
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001233Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001234error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001235name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1236
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001237Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1238longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001239
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001240Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1241Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1242Also for ":w" without a file name.
1243The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001244
1245"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1246Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1247
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001248VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1249directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1250(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1251
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001252VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1253
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001254input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1255name?
1256
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001257Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1258
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001259When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1260(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1261Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1262will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1263
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001264gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1265This also fails with --remote.
1266
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001267When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
12682008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1269all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1270
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001271":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
1272Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
1273
1274aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1275
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001276When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1277(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1278
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001279Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1280the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1281
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001282GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1283
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001284Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1285superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1286
1287Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1288character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1289
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001290Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1291Jun 5)
1292
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001293Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
12942008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1295Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1296
1297In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1298but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1299Jul 22)
1300
1301There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1302
1303Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1304":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1305somehow? Or use a new function.
1306
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001307Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1308
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001309Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
1310that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001311
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001312Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1313moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1314that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1315
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001316The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1317
1318Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1319loading all files.
1320
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001321Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
1322line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
1323after starting up?
1324
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001325When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001326cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1327the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1328
1329Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1330has been created.
1331
1332Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1333shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1334fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1335background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1336A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001337
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001338These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1339 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1340 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1341 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1342
1343Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1344partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1345
1346In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1347buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1348reload it then?
1349
1350New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1351previous version.
1352
1353For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1354
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001355Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1356only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1357
1358Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1359tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1360doesn't contain other directories.
1361
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001362Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1363 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1364 set background=dark
1365This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1366color is, not reset it.
1367
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001368Linux distributions:
1369- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1370 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1371 xfree-xterm".
1372- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1373
1374Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1375start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1376show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1377middle?
1378
1379When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001380(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001381connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1382dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1383
1384Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1385
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001386When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1387current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1388the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1389
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001390When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1391Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1392
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001393Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1394 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1395 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1396 - getting colors in xterm
1397 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1398
1399Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1400Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1401
1402Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1403
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001404A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1405Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1406
1407Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1408Dara, 2006 June 21)
1409
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001410Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1411number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1412
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001413After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1414the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1415
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001416Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
1417Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
1418about this.
1419
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001420Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1421copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1422error and stop using the connection to the server.
1423
1424Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1425Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1426
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001427Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010014282008 Sep 29)
1429
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001430In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1431check the result of has("patch13").
1432
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001433Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1434restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1435
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001436Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1437and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1438
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001439Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1440put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1441
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001442Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1443resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1444
1445In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1446can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1447
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001448Completion menu disappears when using 'cursorcolumn'. (Sven-Hendrik Haase,
14492011 May 23)
1450
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001451GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1452maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1453doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001454Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1455visible.
1456
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001457When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1458differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001459
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001460The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1461be only one.
1462
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001463"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1464script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1465
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001466It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1467the function name before resolving it to a number?
1468 let d = {}
1469 fun! d.foo()
1470 echo "here"
1471 endfun
1472 call d.foo(9)
1473
1474Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1475only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001476Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1477used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1478
1479Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1480output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1481Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1482
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001483Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001484"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1485name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1486Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001487
1488Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1489(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1490
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001491Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1492as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1493
1494Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1495Jan 1)
1496
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001497Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
149823)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001499
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001500":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1501tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1502Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001503
1504xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1505buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1506Xterm 224 supports it!
1507
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001508When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1509text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1510latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1511
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001512Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1513
1514Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1515no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1516
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001517In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1518VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
15192007 Oct 16)
1520
1521TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1522Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1523
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001524Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001525
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001526When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1527typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1528Sep 3, 11)
1529
1530When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1531respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1532the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1533what happens for the GUI.
1534
1535X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1536pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1537clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1538Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1539Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1540clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1541
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001542":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1543this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1544
1545When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1546Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1547restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1548
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001549Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
15502010 Jun 30)
1551
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001552
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001553At next release:
1554- Rename src/Makefile and create a new one like toplevel Makefile that
1555 creates auto/config.mk when it's not there? (Ben Schmidt, 2011 Feb 11)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001556- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
1557 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001558
1559
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001560More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001561- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1562 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001563- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1564- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1565 21)
1566- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1567 patch May 10)
1568- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1569 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1570- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1571 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1572- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1573- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1574- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1575 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1576 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001577- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001578- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1579 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1580- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1581 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1582- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1583 21)
1584- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1585 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1586- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1587 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001588- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1589 Sep 13)
1590- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1591 Docs patch Oct 30)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001592- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1593 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1594 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1595 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1596 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar4d32c2d2010-07-18 22:10:01 +02001597- Patch to access screen under Python. (Marko Mahni, 2010 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001598- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001599
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001600Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000016019 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1602 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1603 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1604 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1605 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1606 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1607 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1608 (Alan Schmitt)
1609 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001610 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1611 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000016129 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001613 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000016148 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016158 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001616 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016177 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1618 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1619 How does this work? Missing comments.
1620- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001621 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001622 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001623 More recent version: https://retracile.net/wiki/VimBreakIndent
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001624 Posted to vim-dev by Taylor Hedberg, 2011 Nov 25
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016258 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001626 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016277 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1628 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1629- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1630 for multi-byte characters.
1631- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1632- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1633 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1634 been given values.
1635 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
16368 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001637 with an ESC sequence.
1638 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1639 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1640 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016417 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1642 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1643- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1644 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1645 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
16468 Add functions:
1647 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1648 Update 2004 Sep 10
1649 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1650 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001651 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001652 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001653 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1654 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001655 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1656 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1657 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1658 (2003 May 13)
1659 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1660 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001661 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1662 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001663 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1664 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1665 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016667 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1667 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1668- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1669 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
16707 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1671 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000016728 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1673 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016747 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
16758 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1676 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
16777 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1678 Kotchan has a patch for it)
16798 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1680 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1681 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
16827 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1683- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1684 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1685 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001686- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1687 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1688- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1689
1690
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001691Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001692- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1693 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016948 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1695 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1696 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1697 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1698 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1699 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017008 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1701 make Vim exit.
17027 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1703 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1704 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
17058 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1706 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1707 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
17086 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1709 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1710 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
17118 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1712 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1713 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1714 names in one buffer???
1715 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1716 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1717 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
17187 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1719 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1720 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001721 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1722 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017237 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1724 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
17257 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
17267 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
17277 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1728 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
17297 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1730 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1731 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1732 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
17337 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
17347 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
17357 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1736 to the match with the tag? Option?
17377 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
17387 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1739 (Sayre).
17407 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1741 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017427 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1743 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1744 match. Nvi can do it too.
17457 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1746 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1747 line 1\ line 2\\
1748 line 2\ line 3\\
1749 . line4/
17506 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1751 the way the shell is started?
17526 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1753 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1754
1755
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001756GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000017579 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017588 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1759 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1760 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000017618 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1762 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1763 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017649 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1765 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1766 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1767 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001768- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1769 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1770 blocked for now.
1771
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001772
1773Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001774- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1775 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000017768 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1777 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017788 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1779 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
17808 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1781 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1782 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
17838 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1784 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
17857 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1786 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1787 "lucida_console:h8").
17886 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1789 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000017908 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1791 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1792 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017937 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1794 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1795 to use an opaque background in most places?
17968 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1797 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1798 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
17998 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1800 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1801 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
18027 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1803 2004 May 9)
18048 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1805 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1806 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1807 MS-Windows 98?
1808 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1809 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1810 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1811 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018128 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1813 appear. (Sami Salonen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018148 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1815 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1816 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1817 doesn't work properly.
18188 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1819 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1820 appears in the right position. (Webb)
18219 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1822 button doesn't give popup menu.
1823 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1824 selection.
1825 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1826 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1827 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
18288 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1829 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1830 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1831 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
18328 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1833 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1834 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018357 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1836 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1837 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
18387 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1839 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001840 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018417 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1842 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018436 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
18448 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1845 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1846 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
18478 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1848 know which keyboard is being used?
18497 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1850 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1851 area (Koloseike).
18528 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1853 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1854 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1855 the font name).
1856
1857
1858Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000018596 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1860 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1861 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1862 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1863 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018649 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1865 required and it's missing?
18668 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1867 wrong.
18689 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1869 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000018709 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001871 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1872 flag.
18738 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1874 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1875 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
18768 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
18776 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1878 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1879 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1880 the tooltips work though...
18817 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1882 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
18838 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1884 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1885 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1886
1887
1888Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010018899 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
1890 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018919 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1892 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1893 through files.
18947 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1895 read long file names. (Schroeder)
18964 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1897 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1898 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1899 problem during a refresh.
19005 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1901 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1902 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1903 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1904 colors as it should.
1905 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1906 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1907
1908
1909Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02001910- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019117 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1912 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019138 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1914 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1915 (Phillipps)
1916
1917
1918GUI:
19199 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1920 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
19219 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00001922 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001923 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
19249 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1925 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
19268 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1927 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
19288 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1929 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1930 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
19318 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1932 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1933 of where it is processing the output.
1934 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
19358 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1936 doesn't work.
19378 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000019388 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1939 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1940 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020019418 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019428 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1943 browse().
19448 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1945 use that code? Or use console dialog.
19468 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1947 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000019487 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1949 - regexp on/off
1950 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1951 when all buffers/directory is used:
1952 - filter for file name
1953 when directory is used:
1954 - subdirectory on/off
1955 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019568 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1957 to avoid problems.
19588 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1959 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1960 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
19618 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1962 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1963 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
19648 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1965 up. Set erase character somehow?
19668 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1967 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1968 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1969 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
19708 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
19717 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1972 visible.
19737 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1974 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
19757 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1976 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
19778 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1978 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
19798 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1980 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1981 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1982 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1983- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
19844 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1985 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1986 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1987
1988
1989MSDOS/DJGPP:
19909 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1991 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1992 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
19938 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1994 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
19959 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00001996 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1997 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019989 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1999 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
2000 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
2001 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
20029 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
2003 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
2004 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
2005 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
2006 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
2007 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
2008 Make this work like in Win32 console.
2009 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
2010 key code. Use a translation table?
20119 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
2012 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
20138 Use DJGPP 2.03.
20148 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2015 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
20168 setlocale() is bogus.
20178 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2018 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2019 Windows 95 system!
20208 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000020217 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002022 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
20237 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2024 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2025 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
20268 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2027 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
20287 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2029 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2030 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2031 "[New file]".
20327 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2033 that is supported?
20348 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
20358 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2036 Briscoe)
2037
2038
2039MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
20408 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2041 gen_expand_wildcards().
20428 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2043 Wagner.
20448 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
20458 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2046 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000020478 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2048 a good fallback, thus use:
2049 $HOME
2050 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2051 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2052 $USERPROFILE
2053 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2054 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2055 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2056 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020578 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2058 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
20598 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2060 Should work like in the GUI version.
20618 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2062 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
20638 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2064 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
20658 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2066 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2067 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020688 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2069 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2070 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2071
2072
2073Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020020748 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002075 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2076 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
20778 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2078 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2079
2080
2081Win32 console:
20829 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2083 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2084 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2085 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2086 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2087 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2088 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2089 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2090 and the file is not saved.
2091 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2092 long name.
20938 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2094 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
20957 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2096 besides the console.
20978 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
20989 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2099 <C-S-i>?
21009 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2101 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
21028 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2103 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021047 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2105 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2106 exiting.
2107
2108
2109Amiga:
21108 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2111 sequences.
21129 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2113 backslashes in result.
21148 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2115 all options, using white space separation.
2116
2117
2118Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002119- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021207 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2121 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2122 (Jack)
2123 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021248 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2125 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021268 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
21278 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
21289 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2129 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021309 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002131
2132
2133"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002134- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2135 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002136- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2137 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002138- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2139 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2140 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2141 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2142 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2143 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2144 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000021459 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2146 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000021479 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002148 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2149 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021508 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2151 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2152 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002153 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021548 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
2155 error number, it's not a regular error message.
21567 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2157 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
21588 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2159 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2160 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021617 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2162 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002163- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2164 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021658 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2166 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2167 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2168 using the horizontal scrollbar.
21697 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2170 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2171 invocations belong together.
21728 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2173 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
21748 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2175 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2176 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2177 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2178 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000021798 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000021808 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2181 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2182 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021836 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021848 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2185 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021867 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2187 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2188 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2189 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
21908 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
2191 defined.
21927 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2193 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2194 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
21957 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2196 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2197 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
21987 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2199 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022007 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2201 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022029 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2203 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2204 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2205 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2206 script can be called.
22078 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2208 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2209 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022108 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2211 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000022128 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002213 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2214 configurable?
22158 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
22169 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2217 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2218 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022198 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2220 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000022218 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2222 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022238 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2224 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022259 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2226 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2227 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022287 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022298 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2230 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2231 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000022328 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2233 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002234 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2235 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022368 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2237 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
22389 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2239 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2240 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002241 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022427 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2243 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022447 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2245 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2246 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2247 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022488 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002249 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2250 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2251 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2252 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002253 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2254 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002255 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002256 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002257 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2258 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2259 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2260 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2261 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
22628 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2263 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
22649 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2265 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2266 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022678 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2268 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
22698 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2270 in lines that don't extend into the block?
22718 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2272 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2273 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
22748 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2275 'linebreak'.
22768 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2277 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2278 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022799 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2280 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2281 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2282 'magic' in history. (Margo)
22839 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2284 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
22859 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2286 isn't updated).
22879 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
22889 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2289 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2290 cause another redraw, etc.
22918 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2292 must escape special characters in the pattern.
22938 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2294 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2295 ":w!!" for that.
2296 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2297 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002298 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022997 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2300 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2301 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2302 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2303 clipboard)
23047 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2305 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2306 Waggoner)
23078 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2308 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2309 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000023106 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2311 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2312 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023138 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2314 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
23158 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2316 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2317 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000023188 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023198 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2320 (e.g., ":w").
23218 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2322 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
23238 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2324 for ">>".
23258 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2326 script in do_cmdline().
23278 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2328 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2329 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2330 changes.
23318 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2332 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
23338 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2334 check for file marks. This can be slow.
23357 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2336 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2337 needed.
2338 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
23398 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2340 to skip catch_signals()?
23419 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2342 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2343 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2344 text?
23458 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2346 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
23478 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2348 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
23499 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2350 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2351 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2352 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2353 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
23547 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2355 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2356 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2357 in the list?
23588 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2359 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2360 instead of on button down.
23618 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
23629 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2363 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002364 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2365 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023668 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2367 character is typed.
23688 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2369 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
23708 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2371 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
23728 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2373 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2374 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2375 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2376 cygwin bash.
23777 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2378 Remember flags for backreferences.
23797 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2380 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
23817 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2382 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
23838 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2384 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
23857 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2386 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023877 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2388 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2389 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
23907 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2391 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
23928 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2393 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2394 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
23957 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2396 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002397
2398
2399I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
24009 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2401 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2402 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002403
2404
2405Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002406- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2407 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2408 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002409- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2410 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2411 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2412 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2413 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2414 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002415 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002416- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2417 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002418 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002419 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2420 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2421 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002422- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2423 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2424 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2425 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2426 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2427- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2428 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2429 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2430- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2431 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002432- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002433- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2434 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2435 character gets the highlighting.
2436- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2437 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2438- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2439 (Jennings)
2440- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2441- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2442 errors. How do we get the rest?
2443- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002444- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002445 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2446- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2447 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2448 first?
2449- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2450 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2451- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2452 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2453 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2454- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2455 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2456 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2457 (Benzinger).
2458- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2459 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2460 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2461- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2462 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2463- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2464 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2465- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2466 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2467 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2468 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2469 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2470 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2471- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2472 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2473 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002474- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2475 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2476 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002477- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2478 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2479 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2480- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2481 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2482- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2483 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2484- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2485 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2486- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2487 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2488- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2489 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2490 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2491 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2492 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2493- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2494 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2495 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2496- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2497 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2498 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002499- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2500 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 +00002501- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2502 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2503 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2504 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2505 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2506- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2507 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2508
2509--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2510 *extensions-improvements*
2511
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002512Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2513- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2514 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2515 calling a function.
2516 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2517 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002518- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2519 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2520- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2521 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2522 http://clewn.sf.net.
2523 And the idevim plugin/script.
2524 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2525 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2526 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2527 other window.
2528 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2529 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2530 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2531 in terminal mode.
2532- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2533 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2534 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2535 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2536 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2537 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002538 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002539- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2540 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2541 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002542- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2543 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002544- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2545 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2546 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000025478 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2548 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2549 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2550 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002551- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2552 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002553
2554
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002555Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025568 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2557 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000025588 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2559 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000025608 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2561 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025628 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025637 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
25649 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2565 - change to cursor position and curswant
2566 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2567 - how it works for folded lines
2568 - how it works with multi-byte characters
25699 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2570 work too.
25718 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2572 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2573 text.
25748 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
25757 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2576 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
25777 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2578 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002579 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002580- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2581
2582
2583Help:
2584- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2585 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2586- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2587 to the other matches.
2588- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2589- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2590- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2591 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2592 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2593 default contents.
2594- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2595 height for the help window (and other windows).
2596- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2597- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2598- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2599
2600
2601User Friendlier:
26028 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2603 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2604 Briscoe)
26058 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
26068 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2607 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2608 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
26098 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2610 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2611- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2612 ":mkplugin <file>"?
26138 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2614 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2615 'runtimepath'.
2616 " Vim plugin
2617 <main plugin code>
2618 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2619 <plugin docs>
2620- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
26219 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2622 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2623 item?).
2624 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026258 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
26267 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000026277 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2628 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2629 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000026308 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2631 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2632 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2633 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002634
2635
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002636Tab pages:
26379 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026387 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2639 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026408 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000026418 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026428 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
26438 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
26447 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026457 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002646 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026477 Add local variables for each tab page?
26488 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2649 tab pages.
26507 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026517 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2652 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002653
2654
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002655Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002656- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2657 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2658 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2659 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002660- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2661 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2662- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2663 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2664 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2665- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2666 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002667- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2668 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2669 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002670- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2671 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2672 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002673- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2674 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002675- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002676 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2677 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000026788 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2679 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
26808 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2681 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
26828 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2683 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002684 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002685 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2686 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2687 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2688 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002689- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2690 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002691- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002692- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2693 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002694- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002695 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002696- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002697 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002698- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2699 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002700- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2701 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2702- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002703 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002704 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2705 in the affix file separately.
2706 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002707 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002708 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2709 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2710 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2711- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2712 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2713 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2714 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2715 Alternative:
2716 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2717 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2718 affix which is required.
2719- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002720 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002721- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2722 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2723 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002724- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2725 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002726- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2727 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2728- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027298 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2730 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2731 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2732 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002733- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2734 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2735 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2736 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027378 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2738 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027398 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
27408 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2741 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027427 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
27438 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2744 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2745 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2746 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002747
2748
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002749Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027509 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2751 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02002752 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027538 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2754 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2755 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002756 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2757 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027587 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2759 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2760 location.
2761
2762
2763Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002764 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2765 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027668 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2767 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000027688 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027699 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2770 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027718 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2772 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2773 user aware of this?
27748 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2775 commands skip over a closed fold.
27768 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
27778 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027787 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002779- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2780 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2781 missing line goes unnoticed.
2782 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002783- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2784 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2785 smoother?
2786- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2787 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002788- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2789 file can contain:
2790 args version.c main.c
2791 edit version.c
2792 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002793- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002794- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2795 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002796- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2797 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002798- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2799 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002800- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000028018 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002802 searches.
2803
2804
2805Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002806- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2807 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2808 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2809 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028109 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2811 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2812 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2813 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020028149 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
2815 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
2816 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028178 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2818 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2819 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2820 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2821 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2822 item.
28238 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002824 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2825 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028268 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2827 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002828 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00002829 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028308 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2831 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000028328 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2833 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2834 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028357 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2836 so that the user can fix the problem.
28378 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2838 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028399 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
28408 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028418 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
28428 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000028437 Searching and composing characters:
2844 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2845 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2846 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2847 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2848 characters can be manipulated.
2849 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2850 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028518 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
28528 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
28538 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2854 characters.
28558 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
28568 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2857 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
28587 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2859 'display' option to specify this.
28607 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2861 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2862- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2863 fontselector somehow.
2864- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2865 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2866- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2867 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2868- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2869 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2870 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2871 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2872 if a font exists?
2873- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02002874 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002875- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2876 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
28777 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2878 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00002879- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2880 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2881 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2882 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002883- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2884 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2885 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2886- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2887 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2888 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2889 But it's very complicated...
2890
2891
2892Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000028937 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002894- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2895- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2896 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00002897- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2898 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002899- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2900- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2901 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002902- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2903 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002904- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2905 units as for the margins.
2906- Support right-to-left text?
29078 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2908 color.
2909
2910
2911Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029128 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2913 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
29148 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2915 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
29168 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2917 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000029187 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2919 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029208 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2921 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2922 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029237 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2924 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2925 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029268 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
29279 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2928 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029297 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2930 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000029317 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2932 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029338 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2934 change this for each release.
29358 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2936 pattern, but not in the body.
29378 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2938 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2939 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029408 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
29418 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2942 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2943 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2944 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
29458 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2946 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
29478 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2948 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002949 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029508 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2951 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2952 used.
29538 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2954 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
29558 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2956 re-insert the [] if possible.
29578 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2958 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000029598 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2960 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2961 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2962 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2963 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029648 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2965 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
29668 Support for deleting syntax items:
2967 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2968 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2969 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
29708 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2971 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2972 a '<'. (Fleiner)
29737 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2974 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2975 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
29767 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2977 detected.
29788 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002979 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029808 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2981 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029828 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
29838 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
29847 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2985 ":mkvimrc".
29868 Improve c.vim:
2987 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2988 "c_strict_ansi".
2989 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
29908 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2991 current line while in Insert mode.
29928 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2993 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
29948 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2995 display position.
29968 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2997 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2998 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
29998 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3000 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3001 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030028 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3003 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3004 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000030057 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3006 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3007 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3008 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3009 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030107 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3011 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3012 E.g. for this html:
3013 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030147 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
30157 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3016 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030178 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
30188 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030197 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3020 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3021 completion?
30228 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3023 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
30247 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3025 select one of the sets.
30268 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3027 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3028 2, etc.
30298 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3030 highlighting (for "." command).
30318 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3032 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
30338 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
30347 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3035 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
30366 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3037 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3038- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3039 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3040- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003041- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3042 (for comment blocks).
3043- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3044 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3045 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3046 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3047 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3048 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3049 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3050 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3051 (Campbell)
3052 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3053 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
30547 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3055 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
30567 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3057 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3058 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
30597 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3060 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3061 messages. And external commands?
30628 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3063 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
30647 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3065 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3066
3067
3068Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030698 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3070 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030717 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3072 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3073 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030748 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3075 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003076- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3077 2006 Dec 11.
3078- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020030798 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3080 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3081 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3082 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3083 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3084 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000030857 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3086 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030878 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
30888 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3089 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3090 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3091 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3092 nested packages?
3093 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3094 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3095 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030967 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3097 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3098 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3099 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3100 autocommand.
3101 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3102 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3103 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3104 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031057 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3106 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031076 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3108 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031098 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003110 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3111 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3112 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3113 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3114 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3115 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3116 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003117 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3118 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3119 3 2002
3120 Only add this when also implemented for
3121 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3122 be used.
3123 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003124 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3125 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3126 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3127 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3128 File.Open..." argument.
3129 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3130 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3131 with properties instead.
3132 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3133 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3134 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003135 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003136 crypt() encrypt string
3137 decrypt() decrypt string
3138 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3139 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003140 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003141 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003142 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003143 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003144 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003145 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3146 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003147 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3148 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003149 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003150 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3151 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003152 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3153 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3154 to allow the library to execute a command or
3155 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031567 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3157 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
31588 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3159 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031608 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3161 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031628 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031637 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3164 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
31656 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031668 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3167 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031688 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3169 option or environment variable.
31708 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031718 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003172 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031737 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3174 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031758 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3176 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
31778 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
31788 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3179 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3180 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3181 charwise({expr}).
31827 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3183 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3184 buffer for this?
3185 result = scratch(string, command)
3186 result = apply(string, command)
3187 result = execute(string, command)
3188 "command" would use <> notation.
3189 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
31907 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003191
3192
3193Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000031946 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3195 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3196 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3197 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3198 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3199 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3200 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003201
3202
3203Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000032047 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3205 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020032067 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3207 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3208 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3209 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000032108 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3211 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3212 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3213 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003214 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032158 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3216 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3217 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032188 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
32199 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
32208 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
32217 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3222 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
32238 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3224 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3225 when starting up in a color terminal.
32268 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3227 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032288 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3229 function be improved?
32308 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3231 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3232 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3233 this be improved?
32348 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3235 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000032367 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3237 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032387 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3239 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
32407 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3241 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020032427 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032437 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3244 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3245 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3246 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3247 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3248 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3249 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032508 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3251 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3252 using strcmp() too often?
32537 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3254 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3255 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3256 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3257 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3258 the two blocks to the memfile block.
32597 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3260 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3261 with an argument that can be messed with.
3262 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3263 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
32647 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3265- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
32668 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3267 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3268- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3269 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3270- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3271- Do profiling on:
3272 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3273 - 1000ii<Esc>
3274 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3275 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3276 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3277 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3278 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3279 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003280 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032817 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3282 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3283 changed).
3284 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3285 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3286- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3287- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3288 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3289- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3290 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3291 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3292- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3293 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3294- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3295- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3296 cursor is right of the screen.
32978 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3298 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3299
3300
3301Code size:
33028 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3303- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3304 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
33058 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
33068 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3307 it.
33087 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3309 left out.
33108 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3311 can be removed.
33128 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3313
3314
3315Messages:
33168 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3317 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
33188 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3319 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
33208 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3321 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003322- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3323 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3324- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033258 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3326 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033279 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3328 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3329 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3330 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3331 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033328 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3333 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
33348 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3335 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3336 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3337 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3338 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3339 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003340- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003341 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033428 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3343 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3344 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3345 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3346 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3347 error messages, printing text, etc.
33488 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3349 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3350 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3351
3352
3353Screen updating:
33547 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3355 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3356 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3357- screen_line():
3358 - insert/delete character stuff.
3359 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3360- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3361 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3362- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3363 waiting for a character.
33648 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3365 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3366 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
33677 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003368
3369
3370Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020033718 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033726 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3373- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3374 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3375 windows.
33767 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3377 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3378 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3379- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3380 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3381 (Goldfarb)
3382- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3383 bound windows.
3384- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3385 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003386- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003387- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3388 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3389 of lines but not with a single line).
3390
3391
3392Autoconf:
33938 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
33948 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3395 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3396- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3397 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3398- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3399- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3400- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3401
3402
3403Perl interface:
34048 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034057 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
34067 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
34076 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3408
3409
3410Shared libraries:
34116 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3412 :libload internal-name libname
3413 :libunload internal-name
3414 :liblist
3415 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3416 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3417 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
34186 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3419
3420
3421Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000034229 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3423 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3424 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3425 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3426 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000034278 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3428 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3429 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003430 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003431 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000034328 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3433 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3434 several).
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003435 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3436 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3437 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000034387 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3439 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3440 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034418 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
34428 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3443 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034447 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3445 window for each tag.
34467 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
34477 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3448 bottom" search message.
34497 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3450 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3451 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003452- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3453- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003454- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3455 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3456 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034577 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3458 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3459 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3460 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
34617 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3462 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3463 :tagargs clear
3464 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3465 matching).
34667 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3467 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3468 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3469 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
34707 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3471 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
34727 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3473 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3474 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003475
3476
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003477Win32 GUI:
34788 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3479 the message and input?
34807 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3481 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3482 dynamically?
34837 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3484 (Mike McCollister)
34858 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3486 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3487 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3488 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3489 common part of the path.
34908 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
34918 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3492 gettext and menus work.
34938 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3494 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003495 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003496 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
34978 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3498 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
34998 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3500 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
35017 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3502 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
35037 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
35047 <Esc> should close a dialog.
35057 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3506 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3507 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3508 prompts.
35097 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3510 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3511 the file added into an already running Vim.
35127 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3513 functions to find the window title.
3514
3515
3516GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020035178 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003518- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3519 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
35207 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
35218 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
35226 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
35238 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3524 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
35259 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
35267 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
35278 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3528 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
35298 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3530 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3531 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
35328 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3533 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
35348 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3535 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3536 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3537 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035387 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
35398 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3540 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000035417 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3542 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3543 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035448 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
35458 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003546 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035478 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
35488 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
35498 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3550 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3551 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
35527 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3553 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3554 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
35557 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3556 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
35577 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3558 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3559 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3560 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
35617 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3562 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
35637 Should support multi-column menus.
3564- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3565 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3566- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
35678 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
35686 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3569 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
35707 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
35717 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3572 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3573 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
35747 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
35758 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3576 name can be chosen free.
35777 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3578 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
35796 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3580 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3581 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3582 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3583 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3584 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3585 things.
35867 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3587 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035887 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003589 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003590- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3591 where it was started from?
35927 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3593
3594
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003595Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020035969 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3597 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003598- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010035998 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3600 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3601 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3602 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
36038 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3604 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000036057 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3606 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3607 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3608 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000036097 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036108 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3611 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036128 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3613 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3614 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036157 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3616 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3617 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036188 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3619 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3620 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036217 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3622 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036238 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3624 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036258 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036266 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3627 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036287 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036297 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003630 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3631 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3632 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036335 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3634 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3635 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
36367 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3637 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3638 file.
36398 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3640 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3641 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003642- Add events to autocommands:
3643 Error - When an error happens
3644 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003645 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003646 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3647 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003648 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003649 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003650 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3651 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003652 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003653 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003654 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003655 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3656 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3657 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3658 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003659 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003660 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3661 the char.
3662 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3663 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3664 file from CVS).
3665 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3666 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3667 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3668 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3669 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3670 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003671 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3672 changes.
3673 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3674 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003675- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003676 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003677 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003678 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3679 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3680 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3681 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3682 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3683
3684
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003685Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003686- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3687 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003688- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3689 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3690 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3691 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3692 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003693- Ideas from others:
3694 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3695 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3696 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3697 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3698 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3699 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3700 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3701 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3702 Uses Perl for C++.
3703 Uses ctags to find the info:
3704 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3705 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3706 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3707 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3708 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3709 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003710 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003711 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3712- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3713
3714
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003715Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003716- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000037177 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3718 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037197 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3720 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3721 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037228 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3723 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
37249 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3725 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3726 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037278 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3728 - ignore/match case
3729 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037308 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3731 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3732 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3733 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3734 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3735 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037368 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000037377 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3738 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037398 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3740 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3741 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3742 Should work for C++ and Java.
3743 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
37447 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
37457 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3746 instead of words.
37478 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
37488 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3749 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
37508 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3751 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003752- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3753 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003754- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3755 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3756 wildcards in the file name)?
3757- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3758- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3759- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3760 be in another file).
3761- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3762- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3763- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3764 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3765- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3766- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3767- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003768- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3769
3770
3771Command line editing:
37727 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3773 line.
37748 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3775 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3776 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3777- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3778 lines wraps to start of line).
3779- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3780 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3781 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3782 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3783 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3784 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3785 cmdwin does now already.
3786 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3787 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3788 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3789 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3790 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3791 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3792 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3793 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3794 Problems:
3795 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3796 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3797 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3798 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3799 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3800 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3801 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3802 character in first column?
3803 - Implementation ideas:
3804 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3805 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3806 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3807 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3808 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3809 Mode.
3810
3811
3812Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038138 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038148 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
38158 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3816 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
38178 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3818 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038198 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3820 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038217 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3822 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003823- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3824- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3825 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038268 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3827 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
38287 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3829 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3830- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3831 identifiers (Webb).
38328 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3833 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
38347 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3835 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3836- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3837 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3838- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3839 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3840 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003841
3842
3843Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000038449 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3845 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3846 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003847- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3848 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3849 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3850 completely resulted from one mapping.
3851- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3852 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3853
3854
3855Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000038569 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3857 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3858 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038598 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3860 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3861 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3862 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3863 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038648 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3865 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3866 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038677 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3868 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003869- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020038709 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038717 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3872 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3873- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3874 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3875 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3876 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3877 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3878 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3879- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3880 Normal mode.
3881- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3882 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3883 are used.
3884- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3885- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3886- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3887
3888
3889'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010038909 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
3891 char * veryLongName =
3892 "very long string"
3893 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038948 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038958 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3896 long_type foo =
3897 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038988 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3899 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003900 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039018 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3902 func(
3903 new String[] {
3904 "asdf",
3905 "asdf"
3906 }
3907 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010039088 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3909 (Chow Loong Jin)
3910 namespace {
3911 int
3912 func(int arg) {
3913 }
3914 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039156 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3916 func( arg1
3917 , arg2
3918 , arg3
3919 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000039207 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003921 func(
3922 int x) // indent like "(4"
3923 {
3924 if (a
3925 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039269 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3927 if (a)
3928 {
3929 if (b)
3930 {
3931 // {
3932 }
3933 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003934 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3935 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3936 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003937- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003938 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
39397 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3940- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3941 line).
3942- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3943- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3944 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
39457 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3946- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3947 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3948- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3949 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3950- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3951- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3952 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
39538 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3954 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3955 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3956- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3957- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3958 lines start with "\item".
3959- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3960 /* here is a comment that
3961 is just autoindented, and
3962 nothing else */
3963- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
39647 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3965 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3966 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003967 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3968 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003969
3970
3971Java:
39728 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3973 Odendahl?
39748 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3975 "[i" commands and friends.
3976- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3977 (Jason)
3978- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3979 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3980
3981
3982'comments':
39838 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3984 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3985 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3986 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003987 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3988 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039897 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3990 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
39917 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
39926 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3993 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3994 regexp is used.
39958 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3996 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3997
3998
3999Virtual edit:
40008 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040017 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4002
4003
4004Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040058 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040068 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000040078 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004008 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000040098 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4010 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004011 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4012 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000040138 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040147 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4015 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040168 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4017 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040188 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4019 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4020 the end of the line or before a ".".
40217 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4022 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
40237 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4024 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040256 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
40265 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4027 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4028 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4029 cursor is on.
4030
4031
4032Select mode:
40338 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4034 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
40357 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
4036 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
40377 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4038 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4039 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4040 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4041 normal_cmd().
4042 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4043 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4044
4045
4046Visual mode:
4047- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4048 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4049 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004050- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4051 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4052 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040538 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004054 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004055 where needed.
40567 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4057 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
40587 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4059 of each selected line.
40608 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
40618 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4062 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4063 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
40648 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4065 Ben Godfrey)
40667 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4067 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
40687 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4069 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
40707 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4071 Young is working on this)
40727 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004073 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004074 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
40758 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4076 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
40777 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4078 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4079 option!
40807 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4081 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4082 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4083 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4084 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4085 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4086 without changing the column.
40876 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040887 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4089 current buffer.
40907 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
40916 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4092 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
40936 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040946 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004095 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004096 or other special character.
40976 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4098
4099
4100More advanced repeating commands:
4101- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000041027 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004103 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004104- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004105- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004106 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4107 "y." will repeat last yank.
4108 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4109 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4110 and/or pick an older command.
4111- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4112
4113
4114Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041158 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4116 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4117 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
41188 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
41197 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4120 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041218 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4122 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
41238 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000041247 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041258 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4126 entering search strings.
41278 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4128 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4129 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041308 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4131 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041328 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4133 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4134 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
41357 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041367 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4137 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041386 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4139 abbreviations are to be used.
4140- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4141 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4142 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004143- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4144 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4145 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4146 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4147 Or implicit:
4148 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004149- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4150 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4151 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004152- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4153 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4154- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4155 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
41566 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4157 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4158 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4159 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004160- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4161 non-replace Insert mode?
4162- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004163- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4164- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4165 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4166- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004167 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004168- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4169 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4170- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4171- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4172 ":freekeys".
4173- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4174
4175
4176Incsearch:
4177- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4178- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4179 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4180 up every time.
4181- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4182 folds when going to another line.
4183- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4184 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4185 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4186 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4187- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4188 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4189
4190
4191Searching:
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000041928 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004193 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004194 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004195 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004196 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041979 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4198 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010041998 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4200 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000042018 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4202 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4203 Perl does it this way:
4204 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4205 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4206 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4207 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042088 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4209 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4210 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010042118 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4212 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4213 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000042147 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4215 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042168 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4217 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000042187 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004219 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4220 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4221 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
42227 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4223 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000042247 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004225 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042267 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4227 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042288 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4229 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
42308 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4231 line.
42327 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4233 example.
42348 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4235 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4236- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4237 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4238 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4239 Alternative: use matchit.vim
42408 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
42418 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4242 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4243 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
42447 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4245 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000042467 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4247 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042488 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4249 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042508 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4251 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042528 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4253 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4254 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4255 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004256- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4257 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004258- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4259 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4260- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4261 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4262 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4263 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042648 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4265 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004266- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4267 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042688 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4269 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4270 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004271- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4272 i ignore case
4273 I use case
4274 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4275 v use Vi regexp syntax
4276 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4277 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4278 Perl uses these too:
4279 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4280 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4281 o compile only once (Perl only)
4282 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4283 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4284 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4285 following command.
4286 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4287- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4288 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4289 for search string)?
42907 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4291 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4292- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4293 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4294- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4295 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4296- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4297- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004298 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004299 a for the next file in the argument list
4300 f for file in the buffer list
4301 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004302 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4303 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004304 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4305 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4306- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043077 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004308 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043097 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4310 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4311 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4312 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
43136 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4314 effects.
43157 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4316 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4317 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000043187 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004319 Also ":dselect".
4320
4321
4322Undo:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043239 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4324 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020043258 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4326 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4327 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
43288 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4329 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043308 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4331 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4332 timestamp?
4333 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4334 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043358 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4336 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4337 was changed outside of Vim.
4338 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4339 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004340 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4341 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004342- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4343 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004344- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4345 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4346 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
43478 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4348 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4349 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4350 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
43518 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4352 only remember the lines that really changed.
43537 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4354 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4355 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4356 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004357- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4358 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4359- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4360 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4361- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4362 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4363 [-99].
4364- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4365- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004366- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4367 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4368
4369
4370Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043717 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4372 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4373 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4374 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
43758 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4376 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
43778 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4378 inode too.
43797 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004380 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4381 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043827 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4383 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4384- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4385 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4386- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4387 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
43887 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4389 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
43907 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4391 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
43928 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000043938 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004394 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
43957 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4396 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010043978 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4398 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4399 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004400
4401
4402Swap (.swp) files:
44038 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4404 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4405 there are short file name problems.
44068 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4407 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
44088 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
44098 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004410 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004411 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4412 file the same as the actual file?
4413 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044147 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4415 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
44167 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004417 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004418 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4419 enough room.
44207 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4421 or /var/preserve.
4422- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4423 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4424- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4425 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4426- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4427 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4428 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4429 cached list of which line is where.
4430
4431
4432Viminfo:
44337 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4434 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4435 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000044368 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4437 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4438 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044398 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4440 name. (Schild)
44418 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
44428 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044438 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044448 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4445 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4446 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4447 this?
44487 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
44497 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4450 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
44516 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4452 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4453 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4454- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4455 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4456
4457
4458Modelines:
44598 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4460 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4461 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004462- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4463 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4464 'shiftwidth'.
4465- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4466 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004467- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4468 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4469 modeline setting.
4470- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4471 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4472- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4473 .cpp files.
4474- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4475 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4476- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4477 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4478
4479
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004480Sessions:
44818 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4482 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
44837 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4484 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044858 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4486 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044878 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4488 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4489 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000044907 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4491 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000044927 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004493
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004494
4495Options:
44967 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4497 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044988 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4499 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4500 also be supported.
45018 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4502 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4503 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
45047 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
45057 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4506 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004507
4508
4509External commands:
45108 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4511 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
45124 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4513 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4514 -f).
45154 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
45164 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4517 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
45184 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4519
4520
4521Multiple Windows:
45227 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
45238 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4524 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
45257 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4526 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4527 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045287 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4529 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000045307 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4531 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045326 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4533 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004534 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004535 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
45367 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4537 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4538 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4539 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4540- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4541 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4542 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4543 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4544
4545
4546Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045478 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045488 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4549 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045508 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 +000045518 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4552 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
45538 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4554 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4555 the mark was set.
45567 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4557 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4558 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4559 ":browse marks"?
45606 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045617 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4562 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
45637 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4564 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
45657 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4566 command).
45677 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4568 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4569 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4570 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
45715 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4572 mappings.
45736 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4574 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4575 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4576
4577
4578Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020045797 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01004580 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'filenecoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004581- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4582 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000045838 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045847 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4585 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4586
4587
4588Writing files:
4589- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4590 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4591 shortname conversion.
45928 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
45938 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4594 file.
45958 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4596 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4597 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045986 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4599 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
46006 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4601 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
46026 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4603 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000046048 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004605 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
46067 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4607 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
46087 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4609 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4610 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4611 waiting for a character to be typed).
46128 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4613 line of the window, like "[time]".
4614 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4615 Automatic and/or with a command.
4616
4617
4618Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000046198 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4620 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000046218 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004622 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4623- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4624- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
46258 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4626 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004627- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004628 :s///N substitutes N times.
4629- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4630 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4631 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
46327 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4633 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4634 last line column 5.
46355 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4636 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4637 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4638 (Stanislav Sitar)
4639
4640
4641Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046428 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
46437 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
46448 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4645 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4646 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004647- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4648- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4649 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4650- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4651- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4652
4653
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004654Argument list:
46556 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4656 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4657 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
46586 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4659
4660
4661Registers:
46628 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
46638 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4664 around in windows.
46658 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4666 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4667 for every line.
46686 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4669 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4670 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4671- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4672 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4673- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4674 leader when line wraps?
4675- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4676 line in the range.
4677- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4678 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
46798 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4680 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004681
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004682
4683Debug mode:
46847 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
46858 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000046868 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046877 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004688 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4689 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4690 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046917 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
46927 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4693
4694
4695Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010046969 Python: be able to define a Python function that can be called directly
4697 from Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value.
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046987 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4699 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4700 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4701 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4702 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4703 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4704 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004705 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000047067 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4707 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000047087 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4709 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047108 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4711 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047127 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4713 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4714 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004715- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004716 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047177 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4718 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047197 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4720 window as a buffer-tab selection.
47218 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047226 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
47237 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4724 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4725 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004726 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4727 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047287 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4729 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
47308 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4731 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047326 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047338 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4734 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4735 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4736 in this Vim.
47378 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004738 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047398 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4740 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4741 have it apply to the following command.
47428 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4743 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4744 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4745 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047467 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4747 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047487 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4749 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4750 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4751 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047526 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
47538 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
47549 Support ACLs on more systems.
47557 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4756 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047577 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4758 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4759 (truncated to fit in the space).
47607 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
47618 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
47628 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4763 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000047647 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004765 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
47667 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4767 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047687 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047697 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
47707 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047718 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
47728 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4773 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4774 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4775 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
47768 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
47776 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4778 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004779 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047808 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047818 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4782 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4783 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4784 does something like this. (Shah)
47857 Use growarray for replace stack.
47867 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4787 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
47883 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047897 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4790 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010047917 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
4792 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004793- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4794- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4795- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4796- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
47977 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4798 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4799- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4800 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02004801- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004802- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4803 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4804- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4805 call "play newbeep.au").
4806- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4807 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4808 (Bhatt).
4809- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4810 blockwise registers).
4811- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4812 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4813- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4814 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4815 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4816 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004817- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048187 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4819 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4820- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4821 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4822 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4823 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4824 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048258 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4826 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048278 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4828 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4829 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4830 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4831 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4832- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004833- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048347 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4835 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4836- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4837 not in column 1.
48386 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4839 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
48407 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4841- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004842- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004843 :redir #> bufname
4844 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00004845- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4846 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004847- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4848 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4849 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
48506 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4851 console? (Klaus Hast)
4852- Add :delcr command:
4853 *:delcr*
4854 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4855 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4856 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4857 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4858 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4859 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4860- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4861- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4862 characters from 'isprint'.
4863- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4864- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4865 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4866- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4867 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4868 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4869- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4870- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4871 Nvi).
4872- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4873 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
48747 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4875- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4876 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
48776 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4878- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4879 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4880 macro).
4881- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004882- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4883 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4884- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
48858 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004886- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4887- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4888- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4889 if it is not the first or last window.
4890- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4891 there is one) instead of the file itself.
48927 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4893 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4894 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4895- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4896- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004897 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004898 many percent down the windows).
4899- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4900 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4901 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4902- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4903 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4904- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4905 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4906- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4907- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4908- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4909 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049108 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4911 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4912 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4913 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4914 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004915- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4916 t_bs is set? (Webb)
4917- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004918 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4919- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004920 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4921 (Webb).
4922- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004923 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004924- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4925 hex codes like 0xff).
4926- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4927 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4928 the last TYPED command.
4929- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4930- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4931- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4932 should also work?
4933- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
49348 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4935 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4936 name.
4937- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4938 trailing '.'.
4939- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4940 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4941 find_file_in_path().
4942- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4943 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4944- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4945- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4946 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4947- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004948 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004949- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4950 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4951 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004952- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004953 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4954- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4955- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4956- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4957 to the minimal size.
4958- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4959- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4960- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4961- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4962- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004963- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4964 entered)?
4965- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4966 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004967- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004968- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4969- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4970- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4971- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4972- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4973 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004974- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049758 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4976 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4977 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4978 or in octal.
49797 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4980 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004981- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004982 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4983- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4984- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4985 insert line command).
4986- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4987- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4988- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4989- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4990- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4991 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004992- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004993 yet.
4994- Implement 'redraw' option.
4995- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4996 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049977 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4998 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00004999 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5000 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050018 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5002 do it.
5003- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5004- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5005 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5006- Add text justification option.
5007- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5008- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5009 off".
5010- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5011- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5012- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005013 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005014- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005015- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005016- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5017- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5018 commands.
5019- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5020- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5021- :table command (Webb)
5022- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005023- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5024- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5025- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5026- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5027- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5028 (Demirel).
5029- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5030- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5031 for use in macro's and the like.
5032- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005033 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005034- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005035 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005036- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005037 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005038 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5039- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5040 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005041- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005042 mkopttab to make option table?
5043- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5044 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5045- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5046 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005047- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005048 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5049- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5050 cursor?
5051- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5052- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
50535 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5054 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000050558 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5056 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5057 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5058 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5059 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050608 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5061 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5062 (Netherton)
50636 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5064 space after "(", for example.
50655 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5066 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5067 (Servatius Brandt)
5068
5069
5070From Elvis:
5071- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5072- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005073- Search patterns:
5074 \@ match word under cursor.
5075 but do:
5076 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5077 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
50788 ":window" command:
5079 :win + next window (up)
5080 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5081 :win - previous window (down)
5082 :win -- idem, wrapping
5083 :win nr to window number "nr"
5084 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
50857 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5086 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5087
5088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005089From xvi:
5090- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5091- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5092
5093
5094From vile:
5095- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5096- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5097 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5098
5099
5100Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005101- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5102 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5103 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5104 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5105 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005106- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5107 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5108- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5109 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5110 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5111 current layout mirrored.
5112- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5113- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5114 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5115- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5116- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5117 font in each top-level window.
5118- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5119- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5120- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5121- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5122 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5123- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5124 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5125 mentioned in the tags file.
5126 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5127 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5128- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5129 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5130- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5131 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
51324 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5133 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5134 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5135 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005136 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005137 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5138 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5139- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5140 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5141 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5142
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005143When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5144empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005145
5146vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5147vim: set fo+=n :